A senior official in Calais has confirmed that it will start demolishing the filthy makeshift camp that is home to as many as 2000 illegal immigrants bound for Britain. Numbers at the ‘Jungle 2’ camp have swollen in recent months,
Common sense dictates if you are trying to successfully renegotiate in four years what has not been possible in forty, you start straight away. Despite this, a year and half on, the Prime Minister has yet to make any attempt to correct
Gregory Chelli, a 32-year old Parisian native nicknamed “Ulcan,” has been hacking pro-Palestinian websites and changing its content to display pro-Israel messages, French media report. In an interview with French site Liberation, Chelli said he was a “Zionist activist engaged
A gang armed with Kalashnikov rifles has attacked the motorcade of Saudi prince in Paris, according to The Local. The group made off with £200,000 in cash, along with documents that were described as “sensitive”. The robbery took place as
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India must build up its military might to the point that no other country “dare cast an evil eye” on the South Asian nation. Modi made the statement at a ceremony in Mumbai
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Friday forged a unified response to the rapid advance of Islamic militants in Iraq and the resulting refugee crisis, allowing direct arms deliveries to Kurdish fighters battling the Sunni insurgents. Several EU nations
(Reuters) – The United States is asking European countries to supply arms and ammunition to Kurdish forces fighting jihadists of the Islamic State in Iraq, U.S. and European officials said, signaling a widening of the international role in the conflict.
Britain has increased the number of maritime patrols, and beefed up security at French ports to counter the risk of illegal immigrants making it across the Channel. The French town of Calais is home to thousands of African immigrants desperately
The Eurozone has reported unexpectedly bad growth figures, with GDP stagnating in the second quarter of 2014. The blame is being laid at Germany, which declined, and France, which remained stagnant. Business Insider reports on the figures: Growth in the
PARIS (AP) — France’s top security official says nearly 900 French citizens have gone to Middle East battlegrounds and some have joined the Islamic State group. Despite efforts to discourage French people from joining militant groups, the figures given Wednesday
French President Francois Hollande says France will supply arms to Iraqi Kurds “in the coming hours.” USA Today reports that Hollande received “the blessing of authorities in Baghdad” to do so. A statement released from Hollande’s office said France is
Jessie Jane Duff, a retired Marine Gunnery Sgt., and Senior Military Advisor for Concerned Veterans for America, said that France has led more in Iraq than the United States. “Sadly we are leading from behind again. Leave it to the
Prominent Jewish group the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has sent a letter to France’s interior minister to demand that a tiny hamlet south of Paris called “La Mort aux Juifs”, or “Death to Jews”, be renamed. The group’s director of international
Left-wing and mainstream media are slowly catching on there’s something happening in Europe, with a rapidly growing conservative movement that looks an awful lot like the same movement here. This was true exponentially for BuzzFeed’s Lester Feder, who was hired
Concerns over Ebola in the United States have escalated due to the prolonged nature of the disease; symptoms can take two weeks to appear. Given the ease with which the virus can travel via plane through a carrier who does
Britain has begun airdropping food and water to thousands of civilians stranded on a mountain in northern Iraq after fleeing jihadist militants a week ago, officials said Sunday. “The world has been shocked by the plight of the Yazidi community.
This article originally appeared on Vox: We know that Ebola outbreaks can be stopped — public-health officials have stopped them in the past. So how can they stem the current disaster unfolding in West Africa? By and large, experts understand
In just one week in July, eight separate synagogues were attacked in France. According to French organization Crif, one of them, located outside of Paris, was firebombed by a 400-person riot. Crif also documented that a kosher supermarket and kosher
The article originally appeared in The Guardian: In the space of just one week last month, according to Crif, the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organisations, eight synagogues were attacked. One, in the Paris suburb of Sarcelles, was firebombed by
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (UPI)–A man known for helping other people with their struggling businesses may have to start taking some of his own advice. According to a RadarOnline report, popular TV chef Gordon Ramsay is more than $50 million
An academic who is seen as a major authority on the recent financial crisis has claimed that Winston Churchill may have voted UKIP were he still alive today. Professor Johan Lybeck, who is author of ‘A Global History of the
France24 Correspondent Gallagher Fenwick showed a “launching pad,” used by what he described as “Palestinian militants,” near the hotel where many reporters are staying and a UN facility on Tuesday. Fenwick said the launching pad was “50 meters away from
“I believe that everyone has his own fight in life,” Esther Voet has said. “This is my fight.” She describes running CIDI as her “calling.” From the start of the latest conflict in Israel-Gaza (known as “Operation Protective Edge”), the Netherlands’
The population of the town of Damboa in northern Nigeria has now become a mass of 15,000 internally displaced refugees. After the town organized a citizen vigilante effort to rid its region of the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, the
It was inaugurated 25 years ago to much pomp on the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, but Margaret Thatcher no doubt remembered it more as the place where she got stuck in the toilets. Today, the gigantic Grande Arche
