The New York Post carried an urgent report Monday on the wedding of “sex-tape star” Kim Kardashian to “egotist” Kanye West. Despite the fervor, the Post reports, “the republic still stands:” Two jackasses got married in Italy Saturday pic.twitter.com/KXUqzmT5EU — New York
Italy’s Five Star Movement, led by the raucous comedian Beppe Grillo who has denounced the EU-supporting social-democratic Prime Minister Renzi as “a little moron,” has joined the surge of eurosceptic parties across the European Union. According to @electionista, an average
All eyes will be on potential gains by Europe’s increasingly popular anti-EU parties when a mammoth four-day election for the next five-year European Parliament winds up today. After kicking off in Britain and the Netherlands, then taking in five more
Members of one of Italy’s right-wing anti-immigration parties, Forza Nuova — “New Force” — have staged a demonstration at a swimming pool in Venice to protest against a special women-only time slot being given to allow Muslim women to swim.
Anybody who actually follows Italian politics can only watch that Jeremy Paxman interview with Silvio Berlusconi and shout at the screen: “Wrong unf**kable question, Paxo!” And not because of the gimmick Paxman used to make sure this performance – if
On Wednesday Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez unveiled a new online newspaper, created as a daily platform for Cuba-based programming. Shortly thereafter the Cuban regime blocked her paper – just hours after it appeared on the Internet. Cuban authorities reprogrammed the Internet
On Sunday, anti-Islamist Libyan General Khalifa Haftar stormed Libya’s Parliament while it was in session. Haftar, who helped bring down the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi, brought his forces with him, who were armed to the teeth. The General reportedly
Local residents in Florence are angry at plans by hip hop star Kanye West and reality television celebrity Kim Kardashian to get married in the city later this month. New site The Local reports that wedding ceremony will take place
Eurosur, the EU’s new €340m border surveillance system meant to intercept illegal migrants trying to get across the Mediterranean has so far proved useless. Since it was launched in December, there has been a three-fold increase in the number of
Christine Lagarde, French International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director, said in an interview with German newspaper Handelsblatt on May 12th that “Ukraine needs much more than 17 billion dollars” in the rescue package of financial assistance approved by the IMF
Millions of voters in the 28 member states of the European Union will head to the polls later this month to cast their ballots in the elections to the European Parliament, yet they overwhelmingly think that their voice is not
Germany is at a crossroads. It still fails to stand up for its economic success for reasons more to do with guilt for its Nazi past than for sound economic rationale. Most economists – and indeed the eccentric globalist George
In an extraordinary online video, illegal migrants in Italy have been telling their fellow countrymen not to come to Italy “because you will starve.” A man identified only as Roshan from Sri Lanka faces the camera and says: “This country
Anti-European Union campaigners built and armed a tank with which they allegedly planned to used to “liberate” St Mark’s Square in Venice in the run up to the elections to the European Parliament later this month. Italian police found the
A new mobile app from an Italy-based developer will give San Francisco residents the opportunity to auction off a prime parking spot in the city to other drivers as they leave, according to a report from the San Francisco Chronicle
The first thing you need to know about the European Parliament is that almost everything its 766 MEPs (Members of the European Parliament) do is a waste of time. This is not satire. It’s a basic, objective fact. Apart from
Yesterday, the Scottish National Party’s (SNP) desire to introduce minimum unit price (MUP) alcohol in Scotland temporarily failed. The Scottish Whisky Association (SWA) and other European drinks manufacturers have won their appeal at the Court of Session under Lord Ronald
MILAN (AP) — The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her British roommate’s 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered the fatal blow out of a desire to
In our weekly preview of the financial markets we look at US home sales, the growth of the EU money supply, Eurozone inflation and unemployment, and rising UK house prices. Monday 28th April, US Pending home sales forecast to rise
Earlier this week, Stephen K. Bannon spoke with Edward Pentin, from the National Catholic Register, at the Pontifica Universita in Rome, during events leading up to the canonization of Pope John Paul II and John XXIII. Pentin remembers Pope John
Sinn Fein, the political wing of the terrorist Provisional IRA, is emerging as “the kingpin” of Irish politics, according to the latest opinion poll taken in the run-up to the elections to the European Parliament. The party, once considered so
A man was crushed to death by a giant cross dedicated to John Paul II just days before the former Pope is declared a saint. The 100 foot cross collapsed suddenly during a ceremony in northern Italy, killing 21-year-old Marco
The Costa Rican woman whose healing is the reason late pope John Paul II will be declared a saint on Sunday spoke with emotion about her trip to Rome, saying she would gladly travel the world with a message of
An Italian man was crushed to death on Wednesday by a giant crucifix honouring John Paul II that collapsed during a ceremony ahead of the late pope’s canonisation. A piece of the 30-metre (98-foot) high wooden cross fell during the
Britons scored almost bottom in a basic quiz about the European Union, according to a new study by the left-wing think-tank Demos. The Sun reports that only around 1.67 in four people who were quizzed in Britain could correctly answer
