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Tony Blair launched a secret bid to save Colonel Gaddafi shortly before the Libyan dictator was ousted, a new book claims. A biography of British Prime Minister David Cameron by historian Sir Anthony Seldon alleges that Blair called up Downing

A man in Tajikistan has been fined the equivalent of four months’ wages after breaking the country’s law against holding birthday parties in public. Amirbek Isayev was fined 4,000 somonis (£400/$600) for celebrating his 25th birthday at a bar with

More than 500,000 Catholics, including many senior clerics, have signed a petition calling on Pope Francis to reaffirm traditional teaching on marriage and the family after months of confusion over his supposed liberal stance on the issue. The petition, which

British taxpayers will have to fork out £500 million over the next five years to pay for flights home for thousands of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers. Around £200 million of this will be spent on purchasing airline tickets

Today’s immigration figures once again show that London has by far the highest rate of immigration in the UK. More than one in four Londoners in 2014 was born outside the UK, while one in five has been identified as

France is to open an official terrorism investigation into the attempted train attack that resulted in three Americans, a French-American and a British businessman tackling Ayoub El-Khazzani as he pulled a weapon. French prosecutor François Molins said the El-Khazzani’s internet

Iran’s religious militia may be about to receive funds via unwitting investors from Britain and other Western nations after taking control of hundreds of companies. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which has been accused of sending arms to Hezbollah as

Russia briefly banned and then unbanned the entire Wikipedia site today following an outbreak of panic among internet users in the country. A court in the small town of Chyorny Yar had imposed the ban after over concerns that an

There are around 800 Islamist extremists across Europe who have returned from Iraq and Syria and are ready to strike at any moment, Spanish counter-terror sources have warned. Speaking after Moroccan gunman Ayoub El Khazzani was overpowered on a train

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats have scored record support in another opinion poll, confirming previous results that suggest a surge in popularity. The party, which backs much tougher controls on immigration and asylum seekers, has been rising in popularity as the

Thousands of migrants are rushing across the Balkan state of Macedonia before a new razor wire topped fence is inaugurated on the Hungarian border with Serbia later this week, impeding their entry to the European Union. The crowd is now

Embattled charity Kids Company spent thousands of pounds of public money helping migrants stay in Britain, it has been revealed. The organisation, which collapsed earlier this month following allegations of financial mismanagement, paid for passports for 184 clients to “improve

Former Conservative Party Chairman Grant Shapps has failed to unmask a mystery Wikipedia contributor who he alleges altered his page, because key emails were deleted. Shapps has alleged the incident proves “collusion” against him. Shapps faced accusations in the run-up to

There is increasing evidence that British people smugglers are operating in the migrant camps around the north French port of Calais. In an investigation, Sky News found up to 13 cars with British number plates parked alongside tents and shelters

Knife-wielding human traffickers who took charge of the migrant boat that sank off the coast of Libya this week slashed or thrashed the hundreds of migrants on board depending on their ethnicity. Italian police said that witnesses accused the traffickers

Recruits for Britain’s elite special forces will face a softer selection process due to new health and safety rules, in a move that has angered insiders as well as counterparts in the US. The Special Air Service (SAS) is widely

Britain needs to introduce stricter immigration controls as further migration will weaken social cohesion, a government advisor has said. Sir Paul Collier, an Oxford professor who advises the Department for International Development, said that migrants from poorer countries are bring

A Spanish bishop has caved in to pressure and allowed a transsexual man to become a godfather. The Bishop of Cádiz and Ceuta will now allow Alex Salinas, who was born a woman, to become godfather to his nephew, his

Further evidence emerged today that Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is being infiltrated by the far-left after insiders released the names of senior members of hard-line parties who had joined in order to vote in the leadership election. Labour began

The Balkan nation of Macedonia is fast becoming a hub for illegal migration into Europe as new pictures reveal scores of migrants living next to railway tracks in a desperate attempt to board trains to the rest of the continent.

The BBC is to broadcast an episode of its flagship religious show Songs of Praise from the migrant camp near Calais. The episode, which will feature left-wing Anglican cleric Giles Fraser, is already in the process of being filmed, and

Britain is partly responsible for terrorist activity in Tunisia because it created lawless chaos in neighbouring Libya, the Tunisian Prime Minister has said. Habib Essid blamed the Western intervention that brought down Muammar Gadaffi in 2011 for destabilising the region

Immigration offences in the county of Kent, which contains the port of Dover and the freight terminal for the Channel Tunnel, rose by a quarter in 12 months even before this summer’s migrant crisis. Figures show local police detained 104

Columnist and TV personality Katie Hopkins has been questioned by police over allegations she incited racial hatred with an article in which she compared asylum seekers to “cockroaches”. The controversial columnist was criticised over the column in The Sun, in

The Kremlin has accused Britain of “expelling” four of its diplomats by changing visa policy. In a strongly-worded attack, the Russian Embassy in London accused the Home Office and Foreign Office of attempting to “wreck the international order” and violating

Hundreds of migrants trying to reach Europe from Libya are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, Italy’s coastguard says. The migrants, who were crammed into a fishing boat, sent out a distress call some 15

The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party has launched a poster campaign apologising for “organised begging” in Stockholm. The posters, which are in English and aimed at tourists, feature images of people sleeping in the street and say: “Sorry about the mess

One of the large makeshift migrant camps near Calais is under the control of people smugglers, many of them British, reports suggest. Sky News claims to have witnessed British-registered vehicles at the camp at Teteghem, with one man with a

The President of the Czech Republic has called on refugees to respect his country’s rules or leave, telling them: “Nobody invited you here.” In an interview with newspaper Blesk, Czech President Milos Zeman told the growing number of refugees in

A key Hillary Clinton confidant told her that British Prime Minister David Cameron was “unsure, inexperienced, oblique and largely uncommitted” on foreign policy, new emails reveal. The messages from Sidney Blumenthal, a former White House aide to Bill Clinton, also

The Spanish region of Catalonia is to call an election today which its government hopes will act as a proxy vote on independence. The Local reports that regional president Artur Mas will sign a decree that sets 27 September as

New footage shows migrants ripping down a security fence near the French port of Calais while chanting “Open the border!”. The desperate immigrants can also been seen overwhelming French police at Calais, who look helplessly on as they storm past

Britain is under attack from seagulls so vicious they are killing pets, attacking pensioners and drowning pigeons in London. The birds, which traditionally live along the coast, are moving inland as their diet changes from fish to human food and

A monk has pleaded guilty to harassing a couple of lesbian pagans after telling them: “We used to burn people like you.” Brother Damon Kelly of the Black Hermits, a tiny Catholic group based in the Diocese of Northampton in

Britain could face food shortages this summer thanks to the growing migrant crisis in Calais, hauliers have warned. Freight trucks have already faced severe delays, with queues now five miles longer than the Channel Tunnel itself, as they try to

Hundreds of migrants are now camped at a makeshift site near the port of Calais in northern France in a desperate bid to reach the UK. The camp, which has been dubbed “The Jungle”, sprawls over 50 acres and sits