Gates of Vienna News Feed 5/25/2016

A regional educational authority in Switzerland has ruled that students must shake their teacher’s hand at the beginning and end of classes. Previously, two culture-enriching teenaged brothers had refused to shake their female teacher’s hand, because the Koran forbade them to touch members of the opposite sex. However, the higher authority has now overruled their exemption, and the brothers must shake hands with their teacher, just as other students do.

In other news, more than 2,600 migrants were rescued by the Italian coast guard in the space of 24 hours.…