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...fill the cafés and clubs, posters tell of a vibrant arts scene. But up near the Old Town, in the shadow of the gothic St. Laurent Church, the tolerance and discreet charm of the Lausannois has been stretched to the snapping point lately by scores of African asylum seekers peddling cocaine on its ancient, narrow streets...
...dealers were out on the streets in force, fighting with each other for turf and customers, being aggressive to passers-by," says Jean-Pierre Clavien, a local shopkeeper. "They created fear and insecurity in the neighborhood." Last week all that aggression culminated in the death of one dealer - an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone - who was stabbed in the liver, apparently after giving chase to a buyer who had run off without paying for his coke...
...Edgar Degas’ “The Millinery Shop” (1882-86) are both well-known portraits of materialism. Vincent van Gogh’s “Roses” (1890), painted in the last year of his life while in a mental asylum, introduces thick black outlines and cube-shaped petals into the composition of a vase of wilting roses. Paul Cézanne’s “The Kitchen Table” (1888-90) is a revolutionary still life because Cézanne shows that he has set up the table laden with...
...laws, which will be presented to Parliament by March 1, would limit the grounds for getting asylum, increase from three years to seven the waiting period for permanent residency and cut welfare payments by 30%-50% depending on family size. Another proposal would change marriage laws to require a person living in Denmark to have an apartment and $5,800 in the bank before marrying a foreigner, effectively barring marriage to the unemployed. If the couple divorce during the seven-year waiting period, the foreign spouse would be sent home...
Because of the disparity with other European states on the rate of asylum acceptance, the government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen says it hopes the European Union will adopt a common asylum policy for all member states. That would make it easier for Denmark to legally block more refugees from ending up in the country. The government hopes asylum seekers like Adirazak Mohamud will take their dreams somewhere else...