France’s parliament approved a new anti-terror bill aimed at preventing potential jihadists from travelling to Iraq, Syria or elsewhere by confiscating their passports. The travel ban on French nationals could be imposed “where there are serious reasons to believe that
Asylum applications to the UK have increased by 15 percent in the last two years, and now run at nearly 30,000 a year, the Express has reported. Last year 29,875 people applied for asylum, the equivalent of one every three
After President Obama announced that he would seek the assistance of Arab nations to “destroy” the terror group ISL, or ISIS, the State Department is now saying that these Arab nations “could participate in non-lethal ways against any air campaign”
France’s Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve estimated that roughly 930 of his citizens, including upwards of 60 being women, are waging jihad on behalf of Islamist groups in Iraq and Syria. France is set to host a summit in Paris on
Despite the right-wing party’s history of tenuous ties to the nation’s Jewish community, a new survey finds surging popularity for the National Front among France’s Jews, likely triggered, in part, by a wave of anti-Semitism that is driving hundreds of
The former lover of French President Francois Hollande has threatened to publish text messages he sent her, proving that he made fun of the poor, the Daily Mail has reported. Valerie Trierweiler has published a book in which she alleges
MADRID (AP) — With golden confetti raining on their heads and “Party in the U.S.A” ringing in their ears, it must have been hard for the U.S. basketball players to hear anything. Doesn’t matter. They had stopped listening long ago.
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for united international action to tackle the threat from Islamic State militants as he opened a conference on Iraq bringing together members of a U.S.-led coalition. The United States this
European finance ministers struggled to agree a long promised financial transaction tax on Saturday, with Germany urging a watered-down version amid resistance from France, eager to protect its lucrative derivatives trading sector. “The first step will only be small, that’s
A poll released Thursday showed that a strong majority of French citizens want their socialist President Francois Hollande to resign. The poll conducted by Le Figaro magazine found that 62 percent of respondents think it’s time for Hollande to go.
Migrants in Calais are becoming “more violent and aggressive” in their attempts to cross the channel to England, a French policeman has told The Local. As many as 1,500 migrants, mostly from Eritrea, are camping out near the French port
Turkey will not support President Barack Obama’s call for a military response to ISIS, according to an official source quoted by Agence France-Presse on Thursday. It will not allow the U.S. to use air bases in Turkey for missions against
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AUSTIN, Texas — Suriname, a tiny country on the northeast Atlantic coast of South America, just north of Brazil, has gained notoriety in global anti-terrorism circles in recent years, as new evidence continues to be revealed about the depths of
They say anti-Semitism is a lot like alcoholism. Every recovering alcoholic knows their disease has no cure–that the seeds for its active return are always there, just below the surface of normalcy, requiring a constant lifelong vigilance to prevent. So,
PARIS (AP) — France offered Wednesday to take part in airstrikes against extremist fighters in Iraq if needed, but insisted on a more careful tack for Syria. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called for international mobilization against militants from the
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Jean-Claude Juncker, the incoming president of the European Commission, handed key economic and financial responsibilities to French and British members of a restructured, 28-strong team he unveiled on Wednesday. Former French finance minister Pierre Moscovici was given
CALAIS France (Reuters) – It took Eritrean migrant Adhanom Ghabrai two years and several brushes with death to reach northern France from his east African home. Now 35 km from his destination, he says no border controls can stop him
Some polls now show a slim majority of Scotland voters intending to vote on September18th for independence from the United Kingdom after 300 years of political union. Such an action would destroy the post-World War II doctrine of the inviolability
Speaking in Parliament, British Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed there have been at least six serious attacks planned against member states of the European Union by the self-declared Islamic State, reports The Express. Making a statement to the house
Joe Weisenthal, editor at BI comes unglued at the rise of the populist right. We reprint here: The big news at the moment is in the UK, where it looks like there’s a real chance that Scotland might vote to
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s biggest far-right party, which once fueled fears of a neo-Nazi surge, is now in the doldrums. While some other European countries are seeing a rise in the far right, National Democratic Party was last week booted
The Front National is at the “gates of power” in France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday in a stark assessment of the crisis embroiling the country’s centre-left government. Valls’s warning follows weeks of turmoil for the ruling Socialists which
PARIS (AP) — Things can’t get much worse for French President Francois Hollande: The economy is lagging; his new government is already under fire; and his private life has just been exposed in a ravaging book by the former first
The World Health Organization announced this week that the death toll in West Africa due to the outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,900 and continues to skyrocket. Among the greatest challenges for medical experts working to contain the outbreak has
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is considering providing arms and training to Kurdish forces to help its fight against Islamic insurgents, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday. Britain has so far carried out aid drops and surveillance and transported military
