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Thursday 7 January 2016
Germany: nearly Spain: US couple detained after child’s body found
1 million migrants
arrived last year HAROLD HECKLE questioned by an investi- lying on a bed, under sev- was aware of the arrests
Associated Press gating magistrate, accord- eral blankets, police said. and provides assistance to
GEIR MOULSON MADRID (AP) — An Ameri- ing to a police statement. They said an autopsy had Americans detained while
Associated Press can couple has been ar- The arrest was made Tues- been ordered, but didn’t abroad but declined fur-
BERLIN (AP) — Nearly 1.1 rested in Spain on suspicion day at the couple’s two- say how old the child was. ther comment, citing the
million people were regis- of reckless homicide after story apartment where Officers were called to the Privacy Act that provides
tered as asylum-seekers in the badly decomposed they lived with their three building by the apartment’s safeguards against inva-
Germany last year, more body of a child was found children, police said. owner who had gone to sion of personal privacy
than 400,000 of them from at their family home in the The father is an engineer, collect unpaid rent but de- through the misuse of re-
Syria, the government said northeastern city of Girona, but it wasn’t immediately tected loud noises inside cords by federal agencies.
Wednesday. The Interior police said Wednesday. clear what part of the U.S. and was denied access, Police said the investiga-
Ministry said that 1,091,894 A 39-year-old man and a the family came from or news agency Europa Press tion to determine the cir-
people in total were reg- 38-year-old woman with how long they had been said, citing police sources. cumstances of the child’s
istered between January American citizenship are living in Spain, police said. The U.S. State Department death is ongoing.q
and December. Syrians in detention waiting to be The child’s body was found said in a statement that it
were by far the biggest sin-
gle group, accounting for Leader of Britain’s divided Labour Party fires party rebels
428,468 people.
They were followed by Af- Britain’s Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in London to attend a debate in Par- Stephen Doughty and
ghans, 154,046 of whom liament. Early Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016 Corbyn moved defense spokeswoman Maria Eagle, who armed forces spokesman
were registered, and opposed him on nuclear weapons, to another post, and fired two other members of his frontbench Kevan Jones — later quit,
121,662 Iraqis. team who had criticized him. citing differences with Cor-
Germany has seen more byn and the treatment of
refugees and other mi- (AP Photo/Tim Ireland) their colleagues.
grants arrive than any Jones said Corbyn was run-
other European country. JILL LAWLESS resign their leadership posi- targets in Syria. ning the party in a “very
In the early part of 2015, Associated Press tions in protest. Early Wednesday, Corbyn top-down” way.
that included large num- LONDON (AP) — The role The veteran left-winger was moved defense spokes- “If you agree with the
bers of people from Balkan of an opposition should be the surprise winner of La- woman Maria Eagle, who leader, that’s fine, if you
countries who have very to challenge the govern- bour’s leadership election opposed him on nuclear don’t then there is no en-
little chance of winning ment, but Britain’s Labour last year, strongly support- weapons, to another post, tering into discussions,”
asylum. The fourth- and Party has begun the new ed by the party’s member- and fired two other mem- he told the BBC. Corbyn’s
fifth-biggest groups of asy- year at war with itself. ship but opposed by most bers of his top team who changes — dubbed a
lum-seekers last year came Leader Jeremy Corbyn Labour lawmakers. had criticized him. “revenge reshuffle” in the
from Albania and Kosovo. rearranged his top team He has clashed with cen- Three other members of press — were announced
The influx was slower in Wednesday in a bid to as- trist Labour legislators over Labour’s shadow govern- after two days of closed-
December than in previ- sert his authority over res- issues including his opposi- ment — railway spokesman door meetings, and were
ous months, with 127,320 tive lawmakers — only for tion to nuclear weapons Jonathan Reynolds, junior more limited than many
people arriving — down several Labour legislators to and to British airstrikes on IS foreign affairs spokesman had anticipated. Corbyn
from 206,101 in November. did not move foreign poli-
Interior Minister Thomas cy spokesman Hilary Benn,
de Maiziere said that was who publicly opposed his
largely because of stormy leader during a House of
weather in the Mediterra- Commons debate on Syria
nean Sea. airstrikes last month. While
The total tally of registered Corbyn opposed the strikes
asylum-seekers includes an as “reckless,” Benn argued
as-yet undetermined num- Britain should play its part
ber of people who were in defeating Islamic State
registered twice at differ- group “fascists.” More res-
ent locations or continued ignations could follow as
to Scandinavia or else- Labour struggles to remain
where, de Maiziere said. united. Corbyn has prom-
He added that the num- ised a new style of politics
ber of people who actu- to re-energize a party that
ally sought asylum will only has lost two consecutive
become clear as applica- elections to prime Minister
tions come in — “it is under David Cameron’s Conser-
1 million, but how far under vatives, most recently in
1 million can only be said in May.q
the course of 2016.”q
