The German government appears to be in full damage-control mode post-Cologne sex attacks, with the official journal of the state propaganda bureau publishing an editorial claiming Mohammed was a feminist, and that as of yet there has been no evidence
Three Muslim men from Lancashire accused of honour-based violence have avoided prison despite being found guilty of attacking the boyfriend of one of their sisters. Preston Crown Court was told Kasim Ali, 25, targeted Aquib Baig because his extended family did not approve
A doctor who admitted to undercover reporters that an abortion he was offering amounted to “female infanticide” has been struck off Britain’s medical register for just three months. Dr Palaniappan Rajmohan was recorded offering an abortion to a woman who
Britain’s government published proposals for new Internet spying laws Wednesday to keep pace with the digital age and crack down on terror threats, but critics have branded the package a “snooper’s charter”. The plans are expected to grant intelligence agencies
Danish TV2 had to cut short a report from the Sandholm asylum centre yesterday after their crew on the scene appeared to be intimidated and threatened by an angry migrant. Reporting on the situation at the ‘Asylcenteret Sandholm’, a former military barracks
A new British passport design provoked a sexism row when it was unveiled, drawing criticism for featuring seven men and just two women to represent the country’s cultural heritage. The complex design covering the passport pages is aimed to be
Fifteen migrants suffering from hypothermia were found alive in the back of a refrigerated lorry in northern France after a blind search by emergency services triggered by a call from one of the trapped men. The authorities said they received
Mayor of London and Member of Parliament for Uxbridge Boris Johnson has spoken this morning about Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU). “I’m going to see what the outcome of the negotiations [are]“ he said when asked if he
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced his resignation on Wednesday over a nightclub blaze that killed 32 people, a day after more than 20,000 people rallied in Bucharest to demand he quit. “I am stepping down as prime minister,” he
Austria sought to tighten asylum rules in the face of a record influx of migrants, hours before the first refugees are set to be relocated from Greece Wednesday under a faltering EU plan to ease the burden on southern countries.
MADRID, Spain — The Spanish Interior Ministry says police have arrested two people of Moroccan origin on suspicion of recruiting militants and spreading propaganda for the Islamic State (IS) armed terrorist group. A ministry statement said the two, one of
Students at the University of Oxford will hold a demonstration to “demand the glorifying statue of Cecil Rhodes – a brutal, racist colonial oppressor – be taken down” from a historic, grade one listed building. The protest has been organised
Migrants crossing the border into Austria are to be presented with material explaining European values, which they will be urged to adopt. The information – stressing the values of tolerance and inclusion – will be presented to migrants in folders when the programme begins in
Greece on Wednesday carried out the first relocation of asylum seekers from its territory to Luxembourg, part of an EU-approved plan to ease the burden on border nations inundated by this year’s influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees. Six
Global warming will kill your sex life, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A man has been found guilty of threatening to behead a UKIP candidate in the lead up to May’s general election. Aftab Ahmed, 45, decided to call the Ukip candidate for Newcastle East after receiving a UKIP leaflet through his
Sweden should be “filled” with Islamist terrorists so that anti-mass immigration, rural, working class Swedes are forced into exile, the opinion editor of a left-wing news site has said. Teodor Stig-Matz wrote on Nyheter24 that he would “honestly fill the
The UK Independence Party’s (UKIP) deputy leader Paul Nuttall has spoken at the International Leaders’ Summit in Jerusalem, Israel today, highlighting the risks he believes the United Kingdom faces from parallel legal systems applied in the country. His speech, aimed
Heroin, cocaine and cannabis possession will be decriminalised in the Republic of Ireland as part of a “radical cultural shift”, the country’s drugs minister has said. Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the chief of Ireland’s National Drugs Strategy, chose a lecture at the London School
The Swedish government is set to vote on new proposals regarding transgendered children. The legislation would make irreversible surgical castration for 15-year-olds and legally changing the gender of 12-year-olds possible, against the will of parents. The extreme proposals were published
A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has called for a burqa ban and stricter immigration rules for Germany. Guido Wolf, a senior politician in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, made the call in an
Islamist vandals have attacked a church in southern Spain, damaging sacred objects and painting the word “Allah” on the walls. The attack took place at the Church of Our Lady of Carmen in the town of Rincón de la Victoria
An 18-year-old migrant has been seriously injured in a stabbing in an asylum centre in the Bavarian town of Abensberg. The 18-year-old Sierra Leonean was heard arguing loudly with a 19-year-old Somali before the Somali pulled a knife and stabbed
There are no laughs in Islam. That is one lesson the creator of BBC sitcom Citizen Khan has learned from some angry viewers, revealing in an article that he has had death threats and torrents of abuse from people who think the comedy
One of the UK Independence Party’s more eccentric members, Winston McKenzie, has quit the party and claimed he’s the victim of racial discrimination, despite defending the party against such accusations, and rising to a remarkably high level over the course of
Personal items belonging to Britain’s “Iron Lady” prime minister Margaret Thatcher, including some of her famous handbags, are to be sold in London next month, Christie’s auction house said Tuesday. Around 350 lots including clothes and jewellery accrued during her
