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British politician Nigel Farage has said that if U.S. President Donald Trump campaigns for reelection as hard as he did for Republican midterm candidates, he will win in 2020 “by a big margin.”

The National Trust has been slammed by visitors after covering all art depicting men as part of a taxpayer-funded exhibition aiming to promote female representation.

Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini tweeted out felicitations to President Donald Trump Wednesday, congratulating him for the results of U.S. midterm elections.

Theresa May has been rebuked after notes laying out a plot to push her soft Brexit through parliament, by using pressure from foreign leaders and big business, were revealed.

European Union Commissioner Günther Oettinger — an unelected, appointed politician who enjoys unchallenged power over the 500 million people and 28 countries that make up the EU — attacked U.S. President Donald Trump, comparing him to “autocrats” ruling Turkey and Russia.

The Slovenian government has taken new measures to increase border security by arming border agents as an estimated 20,000 or more migrants attempt to break out of the Balkans into Central Europe.

Italy is ready to offer sanctuary to a Pakistani Christian woman and her family following her acquittal on a charge that she blasphemed against Islam.

The Hungarian government began a new national survey this week to tackle the problem of the country’s declining population without resorting to a policy of mass migration.

The official overseeing the European Union’s future enlargement says that, in the long term, it would be “more honest” for the bloc to give up talks on membership for Turkey.

The European Union’s (EU) chief Brexit negotiator has said there can be no “time limit” on the UK staying locked in the bloc’s Customs Union if a trade deal is not struck before the end of the “transition period.”

Recent Muslim convert Sinead O’Connor has said that she will never spend time with “white people” again, calling them “disgusting”.

Sweden remains without a working government since the September election left the formerly ruling Social Democrats unable to form a coalition, and a growing number of voters are now calling for their own parties to consider working with the populist Sweden Democrats.

Police have slammed the “long line of Grenfell-related frauds” as another fraudster who took advantage of the tragedy is convicted of “shamelessly” taking money intended for victims.

French security agents have arrested six people on preliminary terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, according to a French judicial official.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk has said that Poland could leave the European Union if it continues to clash with the bloc over migrants and judicial reform.

Germany’s outgoing intelligence chief has been forced into early retirement over a speech he gave in private denouncing “radical-left forces” in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition.

London police have launched their fifth murder investigation in a week, after a 16-year-old boy died in a suspected stabbing, and extra officers were taken off leave and deployed to the streets.

Combatative Leave.EU funder Arron Banks said his detractors had failed to find evidence of a “grand data conspiracy” and that he was being fined over an accidental communication, taking to social media to proclaim “so what?” Tuesday. The U.K. data

German authorities say a man who was supposed to appear as a witness at a trial in Germany failed to show up and was found dead in a court toilet three days later.

Media investigations have found Italian school textbooks have a totally pro-mass migration slant, which has been deemed “migratory propaganda.” 

Theresa May has reportedly backed Irish and European Union (EU) politicians and blocked proposals for the UK to be able to unilaterally leave a “customs arrangement” with the bloc and take back control of trade policy after Brexit.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated calls for a European Union army, this time saying that it is needed to protect the bloc from China, Russia, and even the United States.

MUENSTER, Germany — A 94-year-old former enlisted SS man went on trial Tuesday in Germany, charged with being an accessory to murder for crimes committed during the years he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp.

An association of mosques in The Netherlands has demanded Twitter take down Geert Wilders’ account, threatening legal action if the social media giant does not comply.

Police in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö say the two shootings and two separate explosions over the weekend are directly linked to rival gangs.

American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater will play next month at the Vatican’s annual Christmas concert with the leitmotiv of “Refugees.”

“Populism” has become a favored expression in dealing with contemporary politics. Like many of the terms employed by political journalists, it has no specific definition. Thus we are informed that V. I. Lenin, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler all were “populists”—as were Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot. And we are now told that the current president of the United States, as a populist, is somehow a member of such a list. But what is the supporting analysis for such a claim?

Foreign nationals from Commonwealth nations who have never lived in the UK will be allowed to join the British Armed Forces, with African media outlets already advertising the news.

A branch of the British Labour Party rejected a motion condemning the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania because there is too much focus on “anti-Semitism this, anti-Semitism that”, according to its secretary.

The Parliament Square and Whitehall — the streets at the heart of British government were shut down by London police Monday evening due to an ‘incident’ surrounding a suspicious package.

Citizen journalist and street organiser Tommy Robinson has been formally released from the bail conditions imposed on him by the Old Bailey court in London, as he awaits his ongoing contempt of court trial to go to the Attorney General.

Would you pay an Irish environmental lawyer £232,000 a year to lobby to the government to raise your taxes and to make it harder to do business if he told you it was for the “public good”?

MARSEILLE, France (AP) – Two buildings collapsed into a giant pile of rubble and beams Monday in the southern French city of Marseille, leaving two people lightly hurt and authorities speaking of a race against time to find survivors possibly

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage predicted that any Tory rebels will “melt away” when the time comes to vote on the Prime Minister’s soft Brexit plans in Parliament, leaving the UK struggling with “all issues raise in the referendum” for another ten years.

With the March 2019 deadline for Brexit looming, Prime Minister Theresa May will have to clinch a deal — or not — with the EU soon.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May has said Britain’s government “regrets” U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on Iran.