Gun sales and gun permit applications have soared in Germany in the wake of the sex attacks in Cologne on New Years Eve. Cologne, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt are all reporting an influx of requests for permits with Cologne police estimating
Spanish border guards discovered two migrants hidden in a car, including in the engine, at a checkpoint at the Spain-Morocco border.
The National Union of Students (NUS) has organised a national tour of Universities to campaign against and “resist” the Government’s counter-terror and counter-radicalisation strategy, Prevent. The events, called “Students not Suspects,” are “for anyone interested in resisting the impact of
President Obama has been joking from the White House’s Instagram account about his encounter in the Alaskan wilderness with survivalist Bear Grylls. You’ll never guess what he said. “Glad this was the only Bear I met in the park.” Yes.
The European Union has been told to abandon its “messianic” project of exporting democracy by Russia. A prominent diplomat has said the EU should instead seek to solve its problems in partnership with Russia, not at its expense. Speaking at
The next James Bond definitely has to be black and he definitely has to be played by Idris Elba (The Wire; Luther). Anyone who thinks to diverge even slightly from this now officially accepted view, to be held by everyone everywhere
A Guardian contributer, Richard Seymour, has sparked outrage today after dismissing a British war hero’s comments on the Falklands Islands, in which he attacked Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn for planning to “surrender” to Argentine demands. Seymour slammed war veteran
Tax it and they will still come? We might be about to find out if that is entirely possible – or not. A new quango is being mooted to raise millions of pounds through a ‘festivals tax’ in Edinburgh, driven
The Vatican has ruled that a Spanish man who was born a woman cannot be godfather to his nephew as he is not living a life “consistent with the faith.” The Bishop of Cádiz had originally ruled that Alex Salinas,
The French announcement of a €5 million (£3.65 million) upgrade to turn ‘The Jungle’ tent city at Calais into a fully appointed refugee camp has attracted criticism from all sides, including Marine Le Pen. Aid groups claim the move is inadequate but politicians warn
UKIP’s only Member of Parliament Douglas Carswell has refused to either confirm or deny that he signed up to the Labour Party’s affiliate member scheme in order to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to be the party’s new leader. Mr Carswell
An online game called Slave Tetris in which players try to stack as many African slaves as possible on top of one another has been pulled following an angry reaction online. The game was part of project called Playing History:
The recent discovery by two men of a Nazi gold train carrying valuable property said to have been looted in World War II has prompted a debate over who has a legal claim to ownership. Now the EU has been pulled into
The European Union has effectively threatened to cut funding to countries like Britain unless they agree to take more refugees. Officials from Austria and Germany said they were considering a plan whereby EU grant spending would be focussed on countries
Ecuadorian officials reportedly considered smuggling Julian Assange out of their embassy in London by disguising him in fancy dress, in one of a number of plots to evade his police guard stationed outside. It was also suggested the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief,
There is a tendency in ‘new media’ circles to just pump out stories without thinking, accompanied by ‘clickbait’ headlines like: “OMG You Won’t Believe What Happened at the INSANE Notting Hill Carnival!” (you will) and: “This Man Took His Girlfriend to
More European nations have been urged to join air strikes against Islamic State groups in Syria as a way of tackling the escalating refugee crisis gripping the continent. Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said jihadist terrorists were responsible for driving hundreds of
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel complained to the United Nations on Tuesday about a Palestinian initiative to fly their flag alongside those of full member states at the world body’s headquarters, calling it “another cynical misuse of the U.N. by
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other European Union countries to the west. “What
Canada likes to position itself as the social conscience of the north. Canadians enjoy telling themselves that though they are America’s neighbours (with a ‘u’), they are the good the neighbour, the compassionate, the better neighbour. Young Canucks like to sew a maple
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – The European Union is presenting itself in a “super-awkward and embarrassing” light with its handling of the refugee crisis confronting the bloc, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said on Tuesday. A crisis rivalling the Balkan wars
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Hundreds of passengers were stranded for hours on five Eurostar high-speed trains after reports that migrants were blocking the tracks leading to the tunnel under the English Channel and were attempting to climb aboard. According to
A man who tore pages out of the Koran and threw them in the toilet ended up being chased by an angry mob through the streets of a refugee shelter in Suhl, Germany this week.
Prime Minister David Cameron has abandoned his key negotiation plank of full British exclusion from EU employment laws ahead of the planned EU referendum. The move that could help Jeremy Corbyn lead left wing trade unions and the Labour Party into backing the
The European Union will give France €5 million (£3.65 million) to upgrade the Calais tent city known as “The Jungle” into a full humanitarian refugee camp for those seeking to reach Britain. At the same time the French Prime Minister announced that the Eurotunnel and ferry port
A Conservative Party councillor is under investigation by council bosses after posting a photo of boat full of naked women with the caption: “If Carlsberg did illegal immigrants”. Mike Kusneraitis, who sits on Runnymede Borough Council, described his post as
