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
Two Syrian sisters hold up a sign on an improvised board made of pink rubber – an attempt to keep fellow refugees calm as they wait in long, slow-moving queues at the Serbia-Croatia border. “There are no buses right now. Be
The European Commission’s oft-cited Eurobarometer poll – conducted twice a year and distributed widely as a reliable source on the thoughts and feelings of European citizens – blurs the lines between pro-EU propaganda and legitimate research, according to a new,
BONN, Germany – As UN diplomats convened in Bonn Monday, developing nations were balking at the latest draft of a global climate agreement to be inked in Paris in December, negotiators and experts said. The five-day session is the last
ZURICH, Switzerland – Swiss voters swung to the right in parliamentary elections on Sunday dominated by concerns over Europe’s migrant crisis, with the country’s largest party, the populist Swiss People’s Party, on track to win a record number of seats.
BERKASOVO, Serbia – Thousands of migrants clamoured to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man’s land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on
A pro-migrant protest turned violent today, with Swiss police forced to use water cannon and rubber bullets to quell the self-described ‘anti-fascists’ who violated law by demonstrating on an election day. Hundreds of the hard-left protesters, and a group calling
In a speech tomorrow, the Prime Mister will announce a ream of new measures to fight extremism, including banning extremists from the Internet and from working with children, and closing some mosques. The government will also revive the so-call “snooper’s
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is needlessly chucking time and money away by playing “whack a mole” with foreign IP addresses that are created by Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a bid to stop those who haven’t paid the licence
The refrain is often thus: “We can do it” – almost an automatic, Obama-esque, vacuous response to those who question the wisdom of throwing open Europe’s borders to seemingly ceaseless numbers of migrants. Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is perhaps the most guilty
A new report has warned that within the UK’s first majority Muslim prison, non-Muslim inmates are being pressured to convert to an “Islamic protection racket” which forms the largest “power block” in the jail. The number of Muslims in Whitemoor prison in Cambridgeshire is
The President of the Czech Republic has warned that Muslim migrants will “respect Sharia instead of Czech laws,” possibly stoning women, and saying that they could increase the practice of veiling, “depriving” the nation of female beauty. Outspoken left-wing Czech President Milos Zeman, 72,
Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron on Sunday pledged £5 million to root out the “poison” of extremists like Islamic State (IS) that target the alienated and vulnerable in British communities. The funds ($7.7 million or 6.8 million euros) will support
A group of 84 bishops have written to Prime Minister David Cameron urging him to allow more Syrian refugees to settle in Britain, a published letter showed. The call comes days after 300 senior lawyers, former law lords and retired
Thousands took to the streets of San Sebastian in northern Spain on Saturday to call for the release of Arnaldo Otegi, the jailed head of the Basque independence Sortu party. Otegi, 57, is a former member of the armed separatist
Former British prime minister Tony Blair was committed to joining the United States in the Iraq war a year before the 2003 invasion, documents obtained by a Sunday newspaper suggested. The revelations focus on a memo allegedly written by former
For decades Turkey has adopted a policy of pawning off its Kurdish problem on Europe. Indeed since the 1960s waves of Kurdish migrants and refugees made their way to the European mainland. Now, a senior European Union (EU) source has
German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey’s help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a “punch-bag” for her own
(AFP) — A German mayoral candidate active in helping refugees was seriously wounded on Saturday in what police described as a stabbing with a “racist political” motive, heaping further pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel over the migrant crisis.
Anti-mass immigration, Eurosceptic party the Sweden Democrats is to launch a series of anti-refugee ads in the foreign press in an effort to counter the efforts of their own government. Frustrated by the enthusiastic welcome of the present grand-coalition ruling
A former chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has accused it of being “misleading” in its recent coverage of Israel and criticised it of failing to consider the wider context of an “undoubtedly complex issue”. Lord Grade of Yarmouth wrote a letter
A solar energy firm has quit the UK after complaining it doesn’t receive enough taxpayer-funded subsidies. Zep Solar UK, which is backed by billionaire inventor Elon Musk, accused the government of not doing enough to support the industry A spokesman
A British man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring to set up a terrorist training camp in the United States. Haroon Aswat, a paranoid schizophrenic from Dewsbury, was sentenced in the US after being extradited there
In the face of heavy Russian airstrikes, a number of ISIS militants have reportedly fled to Turkey from Syria by shaving off their beards and dressing as women to pass unnoticed.
A spate of Islamist graffiti in the multiculturalist Swedish city Gothenburg has been compared to the harassment of the Jewish community in Germany in the 1930s, with Christian business owners being told to “convert or die”.
Government officials have been accused of using “bully boy tactics” as they desperately try to stop businesses campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union (EU). With Downing Street becoming increasingly worried with the lacklustre pro-EU campaign, whose official launch
