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The Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, has been warned that he could jeopardise his party's chances of political recovery by agreeing to share a public platform with a Danish racist.

The Government is in talks with security companies about tagging asylum-seekers so that they cannot abscond while their claims are being assessed.

France's interior minister threatened Thursday to close any mosque in France that is considered extremist and to expel any Muslim prayer leader who preached a radical message.

Two Weeks ego, the ongoing computer trouble at the main Oslo immigration office has forced hundreds of frustrated foreigners to wait for hours if not days for processing.

Copenhagen police respond to racism charges from ethnic minorities

Johan Leman, Director of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Against Racism (http://www.antiracisme.be), has resigned in protest at the Minister for the Interior's refusal to allow the centre to intervene in negotiations during the Afghan hunger strike crisis.

There was a slight increase in illegal immigration into Finland in the first half of this year.

- A permanent "racism tsar" is to be appointed to tackle prejudice in and around football grounds in Scotland. The full-time job will involve work with clubs and schools and is being funded by Uefa and the Scottish Football Association (SFA). Communities minister Margaret Curran said the Scottish

- Germany's constitutional court cleared the way this week for neo-Nazis to parade near the tomb of Rudolf Hess, the onetime deputy to Adolf Hitler, ruling that freedom of assembly prevails over local officials' revulsion at fascism.

Office immigration officers have started interviews in Ivory Coast and Ivory Coast this week to select the first refugees to be brought to Britain for protection.