Dozens of mosques in the Netherlands received an anonymous threatening letter on Thursday February 25th, the day the Netherlands commemorated 75 years since the World War II "February Strike" against the deportation of Jews and other anti-Jewish measures in Amsterdam.

The letter features a swastika and the eagle emblem of Nazi Germany. The grammatically poor text, reads:

To all Islamic places of worship. Soon there will be important visitors!! Pigs. Islam is false and devil's religion.

Imam Azzadine Karrat, asked whether this reminds him of the WWII persecution of Jews in the Netherlands, said:

"Yes, this certainly is a letter with hatred as its main content, which worries me. It's not so much about the letter itself, it's about the situation in this country, it says something about the tensions that exist here and the disruption that is apparent in society. I personally think that this is one of the fruits of far-right politics and the hatred that it propagates. It encourages people who spread these kinds of ideas. I think that as a society we have to unify in order to combat these kinds of extremist acts."

So much for Muslims' alleged unwillingness to integrate.

Several schools across the United States have found evidence of higher-than-acceptable levels of lead in their drinking water. This comes in the wake of the crisis in Flint, Michigan, whose high levels of lead in water lead to a state of emergency.

Any facilities with aging water infrastructure are vulnerable to lead contamination, and school buildings are no exception.

The school district for Ithaca, New York shut down all drinking water sources last week after learning that water from 10 schools had last been sampled for lead contamination in 2005.

US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) has since called on both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Congress to help address the presence of lead in the schools' water.

"I am calling on the federal EPA to step up to the plate and get all hands on deck to help the community test this water... and move forward with ways to remediate this situation,"Schumer said in a statement. "We need the EPA inspectors and lead experts here, on the ground, as soon as possible to work with the school district to develop a plan and prevent any future contamination."

Superintendent Luvelle Brown, who said in a statement that the district shut measures out of an "abundance of caution," welcomed the intervention of state and national governments.

"We thank Senator Schumer for his support and advocacy on our behalf, and we welcome federal health expertise to the area to work collaboratively with the school district to remedy this situation," said Brown, according to the Cornell Daily Sun.

More than 300 migrant children have died attempting the Turkey-Greece sea crossing in the six months since the much-publicised death of Syrian youngster Alan Kurdi, Euronews can reveal.

The image of the three-year old washed up on a Turkish beach on September 2 changed public opinion and reignited EU efforts to deal with the refugee influx.

Brussels extended a scheme to relocate migrants from some of the worst-hit countries in the EU and allowed the temporary reintroduction of border controls in a bid to manage the crisis.

Earlier in the year the Commission upped its search and rescue operations at sea and allocated more than 70 million euros in emergency funding.

Yet children are still drowning in waters between Turkey and Greece, averaging around two-a-day between September last year and January.

October was the worst month, with 84 children losing their lives, half of them on one of the deadliest days, Wednesday 28th.

A hazardous leak has been reported following late Tuesday's train derailment in the town of Ripley in New York State, local media said Wednesday.

Some 45 homes have been evacuated after two of the three ethanol-carrying derailed cars began leaking, the WGRZ news channel reported, citing Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office.

Samantha Bee put her money where her Thin Mints were on Monday as she offered support to the Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri against St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson.

"You have underestimated our love of girl power — and our love of cookies," Bee said to Carlson before revealing that the program bought a "sh*t-ton" of Girl Scout cookies to give to her audience. She also directed viewers to her website, which is encouraging them to "ruin an awful archbishop's day" by either buying cookies or donating to the Girl Scouts directly.

Carlson drew Bee's ire after he contacted local parishes and urged them to cut ties with the Scouts, saying they were "becoming increasingly incompatible with our Catholic values."

Among the behaviors troubling Carlson, Bee noted, was the fact that the Scouts were working with Amnesty International.

"I guess trying to stop the beheading of political prisoners doesn't count as 'pro-life' enough for him," she quipped.

RT Spanish reporter Boris Kuznetsov, RT Arabic reporter Hassan Nasr, RT cameramen Khaled Eldera and Ruptly cameraman Aleksandr Tikhomirov were shelled in Syria, while filming an area-captured from the rebels. In total 4 journalists were lightly wounded.

The incident happened in the border village Kinsabba, in the Latakia province, which was being toured by a group of 33 journalists. Syrian state media reported the artillery fire came from southern Turkey, while the Russian media and ministry of defense claimed it was from the border region between those countries.

A total of eight shells were fired by forces, which the Syrian military believe were members of Al-Nusra Front terrorist group. The shells landed some 150 to 400 meters from the main group, but a Russian, a Bulgarian, a Chinese and a Canadian journalists were treated by medics on-site.

Asylum seekers from Afghanistan have been charged with the attempted rape of two schoolgirls in a public swimming pool in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The court ruled in favor of holding the suspects in custody without bail over the risk of repeated offence.

The adult man and 14-year old boy reportedly molested two girls, aged 14 and 18, at the Arriba aquatics center in the city of Norderstedt on Saturday. After being groped by the men, the girls approached the center's security staff, who detained the perpetrators and called the police.

The court ordered the arrest of the both men who will remain in custody without bail as there is a substantial risk they could flee the country to avoid proceedings or commit further crimes of a sexual nature. The men are to be held in two separate prison facilities in Schleswig and Neumünster, said the police report.

It is not the first time the leisure center has made headlines for the wrong reasons. Almost two years ago, a group of migrants sexually abused five teenage girls by the poolside. The young men reportedly caressed them without any prior consent them and ripped the bikini top off one of the girls.

In January, a leisure center in the city of Bornheim in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia became the first of its kind in Germany to ban all male refugees from the facility. The move was prompted by regular complaints of sexual harassment from female visitors. The local officials said the ban was a temporary measure and men would be granted access to the pool services once they get the message. The enforcement of the measure was also triggered by a sexual attack by 18-year old migrant on 54-year-old woman that took place in broad-day-light in another Bornheim public pool.

A restaurant owner in Paris is thoroughly miffed with bankers, so much so that he's banned them from entering his establishment. A sign outside the place reads: "Dogs welcome, bankers banned (unless they pay an entry fee of €70,000)."

Alexandre Callet's obvious displeasure towards bankers stems from the fact that many of them turned down his request for a loan of €70,000 ($77,273) to open a second restaurant. He said that he felt humiliated because the amount he asked for is "nothing" compared to the €300,000 turnover of his Michelin-ranked restaurant, Les Ecuries de Richelieu. In fact, most of the bankers who turned him down know Callet and have actually dined at his place.

"I believe in reciprocity," the 30-year-old said. "They have treated me like a dog, so I have denied them access. As soon as I see a banker that I recognise I won't let them enter my restaurant. This is not just a kebab shop. My restaurant is in the Michelin guide and film stars come in."

A judge has ordered the District of Columbia to pay $13.2 million to a man who served 28 years in prison based on flawed, overstated FBI testimony regarding forensic hair evidence.

Santae A. Tribble, 55, was put on trial for the 1978 killing of a taxi driver in Southeast Washington, DC. In the trial leading up to Tribble's January 1980 conviction, an FBI forensics examiner testified that Tribble's hair matched those found in a stocking at the crime scene, saying that it would be a "1 in 10 million" chance that the hairs belonged to someone else.

Tribble was exonerated in 2012, after court-ordered DNA testing confirmed his hair did not match any of the 13 hairs found at the scene of the crime. The hairs had come from three other people and a dog.

Tribble's "journey of injustice subjected [him] to all the horror, degradation, and threats to personal security and privacy inherent in prison life, each heightened by his youth, actual innocence, and life sentence," wrote DC Superior Court Judge John M. Mott in his opinion, released on Friday, according to the Washington Post.

Four students were injured during a shooting at Madison High School in Mansfield, Ohio. A fifth student is in custody, and all students are safe, according to the school district.

At least two of the injured students were airlifted to nearby hospitals, the Butler County Journal-News reported. None of the injuries are life-threatening, Madison Local Schools said in a statement.

Two of the students were shot, and the other two are believed to have been injured by shrapnel, WLWT reported, citing Butler County investigators. The shooting occurred in the school's cafeteria.