One of the world’s biggest environmental organisations has been accused of altering documents after regulators raised questions about its campaign against fracking. Friends of the Earth is accused of deceiving Britain’s Charity Commission after claiming its charitable arm had stopped
Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is being “bled dry” by mass immigration, a senior cancer specialist has said. Professor Angus Dalgleish, principal of the Cancer Vaccine Institute, says the NHS is “on its knees” thanks to migrants from the European
Greater Manchester Police are hunting a convicted rapist who is believed to have fled to Pakistan. Choudhry Ikhalaq Hussain, 38, was found guilty of two counts of rape, three counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of
A gang of 12 men who raped a vulnerable schoolgirl before “casting her aside” have been sentenced to a total of 140 years imprisonment. The Telegraph & Argus reports that ten of the men were convicted of raping the girl
A performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the notorious Calais migrant camp known as the “Jungle” was cut short because “there were a lot of knives around,” organisers said. Actors from Shakespeare’s Globe in London performed the play on a makeshift
The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may be threatened with expulsion from its European Parliament group after its leader said border guards should be able to use firearms against migrants as a last resort. Frauke Petry, national leader
Thousands of people have attended a rally in Dresden today organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) movement. The crowds gathered in the early afternoon and walked along the banks of the River Elbe, holding
German security forces have received more than 100 tip-offs that Islamic State fighters may be hiding among migrants currently staying in the country, the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) has said. The Berliner Zeitung says Hans-Georg Maassen mentioned
The number of reported sexual assaults at Cologne’s annual carnival more than doubled this year, with 22 cases reported on the ‘Women’s Carnival’ day. Only nine cases were reported on last year’s “Weibsfastnacht”, when women don costumes and head to
More than one in four Germans think border guards should be able to use firearms to stop migrants entering the country illegally, a poll has found. The survey by polling company YouGov, reported in Die Welt, found rising concern at
A German town cancelled its children’s carnival today after authorities received an anonymous letter written in German and Arabic threatening “infidels”. The letter, which was written in a style described as “disjointed”, contained a series of phrases in both languages,
Limiting immigration is a “moral and political imperative” and not “unethical”, Germany’s President has said. Speaking in an interview with radio station WDR, Joachim Gauck warned that Europe cannot take an unlimited number of migrants as countries may be overwhelmed
Journalists at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) should refer to the Islamic prophet, Mohammed, as “the Prophet”, according to the corporation’s in-house style guide. Under the section labelled “Muhammad”, the guide says: “For the founder of Islam, our style is the Prophet Muhammad; at second
As carnival season gets under way in Germany, police in Cologne have taken to handing out flyers telling women to “break away”, “scream” and “repel” if they are sexually assaulted. After the mass sex attacks in the city on New
The BBC has been accused of “shameless” bias after telling staff to use the term “anti-abortion” rather than “pro-life”, while at the same time referring to abortion lobbyists as “pro-choice” as they “favour a woman’s right to choose”. The broadcaster’s
A victim of the Cologne sex attacks has spoken out, describing how she was hit and pulled to the ground by migrant men on New Year’s Eve. The woman, named as Miriam, told BBC World Service how she is now
Germany’s open borders policy has divided Europe and could bring about the ultimate collapse of the Schengen agreement, Bavaria’s Finance Minister has said. Markus Söder said the German federal government must bear a large portion of the blame for Europe’s
In the midst of Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, Austria’s population grew by 115,000 last year to almost 8.7 million, according to official figures. This represents a significant higher rate of growth than in 2014, when the population grew by around
Nearly 20 per cent of Muslims living in France think there are too many Jews in the country, a survey by the French Judaism Foundation has discovered. In an 18-month long Ipsos survey on “living together”, published in Le Journal
Around 350,000 migrants will receive unemployment benefits this year, Germany’s Federal Employment Agency has said. Detlef Scheele, a member of the agency’s governing board, admitted that those aged over 35 do not have a good chance of qualifying for a
A family of white farmers in Zimbabwe have been forcibly evicted from their land after it was claimed by a doctor who lives in Britain. Philip Rankin and his family were first told to leave the land they have farmed
Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has admitted he was wrong to support the legal campaign against a Northern Ireland bakery that refused to bake a cake with a message supporting gay marriage. Writing in today’s Guardian, the veteran campaigner says
The anti-mass immigration Eurosceptic ‘Alternative for Deutschland’ (AfD) party is being banned from televised debates ahead of Germany’s local elections in March. Peter Boudgoust, director of TV station SWR, said his company had taken the decision to exclude the party
Hospitals in Europe have been warned that newly-arrived migrants may bring with them diseases that have been eradicated in the country for several decades. The Danish State Serum Institute (SSI) has warned hospitals to be on the lookout for signs
A major clause in the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000 that allows border guards to question suspects when they arrive in the country is incompatible with European human rights laws, a senior judge has ruled. Ruling in the case of David
A migrant allegedly said “German women are just there for sex” as he assaulted a 25-year-old woman while she walked home from a train station in Dortmund. The man, who had recently arrived in the city, offered money to sleep
A British Member of Parliament yesterday invited U.S. Republican frontrunner Donald Trump to work with a charity with alleged extremist links. Naz Shah, the Labour MP for Bradford West, invited Mr Trump to meet the “Muslim volunteers” at Human Appeal International,
Germany should completely close its borders to refugees if it is to solve to migrant crisis, a former President of Bavaria has said. Edmund Stoiber — an elder statesmen in the Christian Social Union (CSU), Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian sister
Police and politicians in the German region that includes Cologne have been so scared to talk about North African migrant crime that is has effectively been a “state secret”, a prominent German newspaper has reported. Die Welt says that crime
Germany’s Finance Minister has proposed a pan-European tax on petrol and diesel to pay for the continent’s border security if EU states cannot find enough money. Speaking in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Wolfgang Schäuble said securing the external borders
Swiss authorities are confiscating valuable possessions from migrants and taxing them 10 per cent of any money they earn to pay for their upkeep. As the migrant crisis sweeps across Europe, Switzerland has introduced the requirement that migrants must hand
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has strongly criticised his successor’s handling of the migrant crisis, accusing Angela Merkel of having “no plan” in dealing with the influx. In an interview with Handelsblatt, the former Social Democrat chancellor accused Ms Merkel
The Swiss city of Lucerne is to launch a poster campaign telling migrants not to harass women ahead of its annual carnival parades. Following the mass sex assaults in the German city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve, concern has
Amid the continuing migrant crisis in Europe, an Austrian bank is to introduce Sharia-compliant accounts for the country’s growing Muslim population. BAWAG PSK will launch the accounts in Vienna next month, allowing customers to conduct their banking according to Islamic
The number of people attending Church of England services each week has dropped below one million for the first time, with Sunday attendance plunging to a record low of just 760,000. The figures from the church’s annual attendance survey show
Years of permissive multiculturalism is to blame for the rise of Sharia courts and the Rotherham rape scandal, an academic claimed yesterday. Dr Rumy Hasan, a senior lecturer at the University of Sussex’s Centre for Migration Research, said “do-what-you-want” and
Women across Denmark have complained of harassment by migrants who they accused of making them feel unsafe when out at night. In the town of Thisted in the north of the country, authorities admitted there was a harassment “problem” stemming
A three-year-old migrant has allegedly been raped by multiple people at an asylum centre in the Norwegian city of Stavanger. Police are investigating the incident amid claims the boy was abused in the shared common area of the asylum centre,
A former paratrooper on remand in prison was beaten by a gang led by a Muslim convert in what is now being described as a “terrorist attack” in Britain Eight men attacked Craig Jones in his cell at Hewell Prison
One of Germany’s most senior constitutional judges has said Angela Merkel’s government is violating the country’s constitution by failing to protect its borders. In a report commissioned by Mrs Merkel’s partners, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Udo di Fabio says
