Early Saturday morning, Valery Bolotov, the leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk Republic, was arrested at the Ukrainian border, but his supporters freed him less than an hour later in a gunfight. Vladimir Gromov, head of counterintelligence of Luhansk separatists, said
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk met with regional leaders in Kharkiv in an attempt to ease tensions between Kiev and east Ukraine. The people of the east, which is dominated by Russian speakers and ethnic Russians, are frustrated with Kiev
NEW DELHI (AP) — Opposition leader Narendra Modi will be India’s next prime minister, winning the most decisive election victory the country has seen in more than a quarter century and sweeping the long-dominant Congress party from power, partial results
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s next prime minister, Narendra Modi, is the son of a poor tea seller and has long set his sights on the highest elected office in the world’s largest democracy. The top official in Gujarat state
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s next prime minister, Narendra Modi, is the son of a poor tea seller and has long set his sights on the highest elected office in the world’s largest democracy. The top official in Gujarat state
The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg has branded advocates of British independence “deeply unpatriotic”, according the BBC. In an interview on Radio 4, he claimed that leaving the EU would lead to widespread unemployment. He claimed it was wrong to
HOUSTON, Texas–Progress Texas, a pro-Wendy Davis group, published an ad and blog post that attempts to make the case that Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott was potentially responsible for the deaths of cancer patients. Progress Texas attempted to form linkage
Lord Howell of Guildford, the father-in-law of Chancellor George Osborne, has warned that the Conservatives will lose thousands of votes if they allow fracking to go ahead in Tory heartlands in southern England rather than the industrial north. He said
The boss of a pro-European investment firm has said that UKIP winning the European election will have no impact on markets because the party is just a “protest”. Stuart Mitchell from SWMC European Fund also said the debate had not
Members of the European Parliament have been spending more than €5m a year on alleged “fact finding” trips to some of the most luxurious destinations on the world, with 160 trips charged to taxpayers in the last two years alone.
Various media outlets are reporting that a British blogger and member of the Green Party was visited by police this weekend after tweeting fake campaign literature which was branded with the UK Independence Party (UKIP) logo. Both the Guardian and
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has become embroiled in a racism row after one of its student leaders called Prime Minister David Cameron an “English twat”. Roisin McLaren, president of Edinburgh University SNP, said that David Cameron’s pleas to save
Though anti-EU outsiders UKIP might top the polls at the European Parliament elections in Britain, a eurosceptic streak runs through all the mainstream parties they stand against. The United Kingdom Independence Party of Nigel Farage, which is fixed on getting
The Kyiv Post reported many voting violations during Luhansk Oblast’s independence referendum from Ukraine. In Luhansk, people found no electoral rolls, and armed men reportedly received a jump in line. “Warriors vote without queuing,” a woman reportedly shouted, as three
New information about Britain’s political parties and their social media platforms has revealed a significant surge for the UK Independence Party, and in the case of Facebook ‘Likes’, more than five times all of the other major parties combined. The
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said that his UK Independence Party is becoming the British political party that ethnic minority voters will start to vote for and associate with, following a successful London campaign event featuring some of the party’s
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday he would not quit if Scotland voted to leave the United Kingdom in a September referendum to become an independent country. Asked if he would resign if he presided over
The President of Indonesia has reiterated his stance that his country should remain a secular state, not one dominated by Islamic law. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said after receiving the Sukarno (Indonesia’s first President) prize for championing humanity and democracy,
WESTMINSTER, London, UK – Nigel Farage, the leader of the UK Independence Party this morning launched his party’s local election campaign wherein he stated that the party would win “hundreds of seats… or I will look rather stupid”. Farage was
A student at Oxford University has written a musical about the UK Independence Party. “UKIP: The Musical” is due to premiere next week, with student Richard Ng hoping to take it to the Edinburgh Fringe. The plot follows the story
Prime Minister David Cameron has told friends that he will not resign if Scotland votes for independence in September, despite senior party members warning that it would plunge his premiership into crisis. The Prime Minister has previously not stated what
Cinco de Seis wasn’t quite as much fun as Cinco de Mayo for many of the revelers who ended up spending it in a drunk tank somewhere in Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Times, a countywide dragnet
Eighty-five percent of companies oppose Scottish independence, according to a survey by the British Chamber of Commerce. Only 11 percent of firms supported independence. Over 2400 companies responded to the poll, which looked at the risks and opportunities to business
Nearly a third of Conservative Party members want a pact with UKIP, according to a survey for the ConservativeHome website. This is the third month in a row where support for a pact has hovered around the 30 percent mark,
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been forced to cancel its Freepost address after far-left activists sent human waste, blood and various bulky items at a cost to the eurosceptic party. The address, which does not require a stamp, was
