Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner today backed Russia’s claim to the Crimea, comparing it to Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands. Speaking during a visit to Paris, Mrs Kirchner said that Crimea “has always belonged to Russia”, just as
Putin has gone as far as he needs to in Ukraine and has no plans to invade any more of its territory, it was claimed yesterday. The Ukrainian government has been exaggerating Russian troop movements in order to garner sympathy
Crimean Tatars are to be forced off their lands and relocated, according to Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Temirgaliyev. Russia’s official RIA Novosti news agency reports that Mr Temirgaliyev said in an interview that he wants to “regularise” the land
Tony Benn’s body could lie overnight in the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster, an honour that has previously only ever been accorded to Margaret Thatcher. Parliamentary authorities have submitted a request to the Queen for
An Islamic Charity alleged by David Cameron to be a front group for Hizb ut-Tahrir, the radical Islamist group, receives £70,000 a year state funding, according to new research. The Islamic Shakhsiyah Foundation is being given grants to fund places
An Islamic teacher has been spared jail despite being convicted of sexually abusing a young girl as he taught her the Koran. Suleman Maknojioa was given a 40 week custodial sentence suspended for two years as he supports his family
Politicians in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria have asked the Russian parliament to allow their territory to join the Russian Federation. The region, also known as Trans-Dniester, forms the part of Moldova on the east bank of the Dniester river.
Iran’s foreign minister cancelled a dinner with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton over meetings she had with opposition activists, the Fars News Agency reports. The semi-official Iranian news outlet said that Mohammad Javad Zarif cancelled the scheduled dinner in
George Galloway has launched a speaking tour of Scotland called “Just Say Naw” ahead of September’s independence referendum. Speaking at the Carnegie Hall in Dumfermline, the Bradford West MP made a series of humorous remarks about Nationalist politicians and addressed
Scarlett Johansson has told a British newspaper that she has ‘no regrets’ over her decision to become a spokeswoman for the SodaStream company. Speaking to the Observer, the actress said she “stands behind” her decision to resign as a global
Bulgaria is effectively selling citizenship for £150,000, according to an investigation by undercover reporters for the Daily Telegraph. As Bulgaria is an EU state, anyone who acquires citizenship there is allowed to settle and work in any other EU country,
The president of the Irish National Trust has refused to debate a leading sceptic of man-made global warming. Professor John Sweeney of ‘An Tasice, the Irish National Trust’, had been due to debate Dr Benny Peiser of the Global Warming
UKIP have been banned from speaking to students at Derby University ahead of May’s European Elections after the Students Union failed to lift a rule prohibiting the party. The Express reports that the Union have not lifted the veto, despite
If Scotland votes for independence it could put the 2015 General Election in doubt and potentially bring down the next government, according to a leading lawyer. Professor Alan Boyle, a specialist in international law at Edinburgh University who wrote the
Polls opened in Venice yesterday in a referendum on whether the city and its surrounding region should leave Italy and become independent. The five-day-long vote is taking place online and has been organised by activists at plebiscito.eu who are dissatisfied
The UK Independence Party is on course to win the largest share of the vote in May’s European Elections, according to a new poll. The party is currently on 30 percent, with Labour in second place on 28. The ComRes
A Liberal Democrat councillor called a barman a ‘migrant’ and told him to go back to his own country in a drunken altercation at Charing Cross station. Cllr Stephen Fenwick pleaded guilty to racially aggravated assault, and was given a
A convicted terrorist has to today admitted to trying to travel under a false ID. Nabeel Hussain was arrested at Stansted Airport on 23 September last year. He was allegedly trying to fly to Turkey under a false passport. On
Children who commit murder should be entitled to lifetime anonymity, a barrister has told the High Court. Arguing the case for two juvenile defendants, Joel Bennathan QC told the court that young criminals need “the space and protection to grow,
One of Britain’s most senior judges has warned that traditional attitudes to issues such as sexuality are being shut out of debate by a form of liberal “censoriousness” that only tolerates “inoffensive” views to be heard. Lord Neuberger, president of
The Iraqi parliament is considering a law that would legalise marriage for nine-year-old girls. The ‘Personal Status law’ will also restrict women’s rights in matters of divorce and inheritance, making it much easier to men to abuse their spouses. The
