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The lawsuit filed to the European Court of Justice, demanding the lifting of the PKK from the EU's list of terrorist organizations, opens on Monday 16 April, writes Yeni Özgür Politika. The PKK has been on the EU's list of terrorist organizations since 2002. Acting on behalf of PKK leaders Murat Karayılan and Duran Kalkan, the Prakken d'Oliveira Law Office in the Netherlands has presented a file every six months when the new list is written and then the file went to the European Court of Justice. Next Monday the trial will open aiming at lifting the PKK from the...

Yesterday, we discussed New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's curious reluctance (so far) to ban .50 caliber rifles, despite having, just a few months ago, been the one to propose such a law in the first place. One of the ten new gun laws he did choose to sign last Thursday, though, is arguably a far more egregious assault on liberty than even the gun ban would be. A 3687/S 2485, which, according to the title, "[d]isqualifies person named on federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining firearms identification card or permit to purchase handgun," finally achieves at the state level what the...

Quoting from the "Religion of Peace" website: This list of terrorist attacks committed by Muslims since 9/11/01 (a rate of about four or five a day) is incomplete because not all such attacks are picked up by international news sources, even those resulting in multiple loss of life. These are not incidents of ordinary crime involving nominal Muslims killing for money or vendetta. We only include incidents of deadly violence that can reasonably be determined to have been committed out of religious duty - as interpreted by the perpetrator. Islam needs to be a motive, but it need not be...

Japan has criticised as "extremely regrettable" Washington's decision to remove North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa told Japanese media that "abductions amount to terrorist acts". Japan wants action on people it believes were kidnapped by Pyongyang. The US removed North Korea from its terror list after saying the North had agreed to provide full access to its controversial nuclear programme. Mr Nakagawa objected to the move during a visit to Washington, where he is attending G7 talks. Tokyo argues North Korea should remain on the list because issues related to the...