News Headlines - 27 June 2015
The Foreign Office today confirmed that fifteen Britons were among those killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort.
However, Foreign Minister Tobias Ellwood warned the death toll was likely to rise.
▽Tunisia to shutter 80 mosques after terror attack - Jerusalem Post
Tunisia plans witihn a week to close down 80 mosques that remain outside state control for inciting violence, as a countermeasure after the hotel attack that killed dozens, Prime Minister Habib Essid said on Friday.
▽Gulf states share shock of terror attack on mosque in Kuwait | The Guardian
On Saturday, Kuwaiti officials announced arrests linked to the Friday blast at the Imam al-Sadiq mosque, which killed 27 and maimed 200 more, as security at places of worship from Sharjah to Doha was tightened and rhetoric against the group intensified across the region.
▽Were Tunisia, France, Kuwait attacks co-ordinated by Islamic State for Ramadan? - Telegraph
These attacks come at a time of heightened emotion for Isil. On Tuesday, a statement from the caliphate spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani was circulated online in which he called for Sunni Muslims to “rush and move to make Ramadan a month of disasters for the kuffar”.
▽Queen unimpressed by blue horse painting on German state visit | The Guardian
The oil painting by the up-and-coming German artist Nicole Leidenfrost was based on a photograph taken in 1935 showing the future queen, aged eight or nine, on a pony being led by her father, George VI.
The awkwardness of the presentation only increased when, pointing to the king, she asked: “Is that supposed to be my father?” Gauck, unable to hide the disappointment in his voice, replied: “Don’t you recognise him?” to which the Queen answered sternly: “No.”
