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A headteacher at an academy school has labelled members of his staff “racist Islamophobes” for not supporting an open doors policy on migration in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Writing anonymously, she details how junior staff reported senior

The Polish Prime Minister has rejected EU demands that her country take 7,000 migrants, saying that after the Paris attacks national security must come first. Beata Szydło, whose conservative Law and Justice Party swept to power last month amid the

SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called for greater intelligence sharing in Southeast Asia to stop a Paris-style terror attack and ordered local law enforcement officials to test their readiness to handle a mass casualty attack. Citing

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday there was no global support for a US-led ground force to destroy the Islamic State group, which he called fundamentally weak with “more Twitter accounts than fighters”. Calls have been mounting in Canberra

We witnessed yesterday the government realising the importance of a cohesive long term defence procurement programme as it scrabbled around to produce headline grabbing policies for its Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR) in the wake of the Paris terror

BELFAST – A British exit from the European Union (EU) would not wreck Northern Ireland’s economy, the minister widely expected to be named the province’s next leader said on Monday, urging London to be bolder in its renegotiation with Brussels.

A German professor has confirmed what skeptics from Britain to the US have long suspected: that NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has largely invented “global warming” by tampering with the raw temperature data records. Professor Dr. Friedrich Karl Ewert is

Australian man Phuc Dat Bich, who became an Internet sensation after complaining his Facebook page kept being shut down, says he is honoured his name has made people laugh. The 23-year-old, who is of Vietnamese origin, originally posted a complaint

A convicted paedophile and former competitive ice skater who used the sport to groom young girls has agreed to return to Britain after he was arrested in Hong Kong on an extradition request. Joseph Tsang, a fugitive from British police

More than half of Britons now want to leave the European Union, according to an opinion poll carried out after the Paris attacks for the Independent newspaper. The ORB survey of 2,000 people showed 52 percent of British voters wanted

A “military strength” laser caused significant damage to the eye of a British Airways co-pilot when it was shone into his cockpit as the plane was landing, a trade union said Monday. The unnamed victim was taken to hospital in

A bomb exploded early Tuesday outside the offices of Greece’s industry association in Athens, causing damage but no injuries, a police source said. Calls to two Greek newspapers at 0050 GMT — 40 minutes before the explosion — had forewarned

Turkish fighter jets shot down a warplane near the Syrian border after it violated Turkey’s airspace on Tuesday, a Turkish military official said, with Russia confirming it had lost one of its jets. Live updates below. Turkish F16s warned the

Canadian journalist Ezra Levant visited Muslim neighborhoods in Paris to get a sense of public opinion there, finding that many blame Jews for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist attacks on November 13, which left 130 people dead.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has taken the extraordinary step of publicly blasting Britain’s monarch-in-waiting, Prince Charles, after comments he made about Syria and migration being linked to climate change. Speaking to Sky News, the Prince of Wales, who is

Protests against Islamisation took place across Australia this weekend as hundreds of demonstrators marched in cities across the country. The Reclaim Australia movement marched throughout the country on Sunday, with several violent incidents involving counter-protesters reported. The BBC reports that six

It has been revealed that as many as 450 would-be British jihadis have returned to the U.K. and have not been detained when re-entering the country. Returning jihadis pose a “significant” risk to the safety of the U.K. according to the

Yoga classes have been banned at a Canadian university because of  “cultural genocide… due to colonialism and western supremacy” after complaints from political correct students.  Jennifer Schaf had been providing free weekly yoga sessions for both disabled and able-bodied students at the University

As many as 600,000 migrants could enter Europe from Turkey during the four months to the end of February 2016 alone, a report by the United Nation’s refugee agency has found. The flow of migrants north into Europe had been

A young Conservative Party activist claims she woke up naked next to an MP with no memory of what had happened the previous night in the latest twist to the ongoing Tory sex scandal involving drugs, blackmail and bullying. The

Nearly 100 migrants attempted to storm the disputed border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Saturday, with two managing to breach the metres-high fence. Authorities have said that at the weekend a number of migrants attempted to cross

Two thirds of Norwegians oppose their country taking in more asylum seekers, a poll has found. The results represent a near reversal of public opinion on the issue in just five months. The Norwegian government is already working to dissuade

The elusive eighth Paris attacker and one of three brothers implicated in the atrocity reportedly frequented gay clubs before the attack. He may have backed out of his mission at the last minute, and is possibly on the run from

A French Muslim blogger has called upon his fellow Muslims to rise up against radical Islam within their midst – directly opposing the mainstream narrative that Muslims cannot be held responsible for combatting extremism in their midst. The warning of

Following the recent Paris attacks the Chairman of the Austrian Freedom Party has called for European Islamic extremists to be put into a Guantanamo-style island prison. Heinz-Christian Strache (pictured above) leads the anti-mass migration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ). He has called for a

So Brussels is on lockdown due to the heightened terror threat. Trains have been cancelled, people have been told to stay away from crowded areas, meaning that the centre is deserted and sporting events have been postponed. It’s no surprise

Toys R Us, the international toy retailer, has capitulated to pressure from campaigners upset by gender-based marketing, and stopped dividing its products into boys or girls categories. The U.K. website for the company, Toys R Us, has been updated. Now online

One in five British Muslims has at least some sympathy with those who have travelled to Syria to fight with Islamic State, a poll reveals. The Survation poll of British Muslims for The Sun newspaper found that support was even

English football fans took to the streets of London over the weekend to celebrate the ‘evaporation’ of ISIS’s chief executioner, Mohammed Emwazi, widely known as Jihadi John. “Jihadi John he’s f*cking dead, he had a bomb dropped on his head”,

Australian officials Monday said they were aware of 12 people within the community who they believe could commit an act of terror, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull convened a meeting to discuss national security. Canberra has become increasingly concerned about

In September I wrote a piece called For The Last Time, No, The Syrian Crisis Was Not Caused By Climate Change. Clearly, though, my approach wasn’t subtle enough because a month later I had to write another piece called No, Charlotte Church. The

CANBERRA, Australia — Officials say the Australian government remains committed to resettling 12,000 Syrian refugees, but painstaking security checks could take more than a year. The government announced in September that the 12,000 refugees would be resettled as quickly as

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has again hit out at Europe’s policy of mass migration, linking the latest terrorist atrocities in Paris to the European Union’s (EU) long standing immigration policies, and insisting that “all the terrorists are basically migrants… The question

Soldiers patrolled the streets of Brussels on the third day of a security lockdown on Monday and the tenth day of a manhunt for the suspected mastermind of the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. Belgian national Salah Abdeslam has not

Argentina, in a stinging repudiation of outgoing leftist President Cristina Kirchner, elected a pro-market government president to take the helm of Latin America’s third-biggest economy. Conservative president-elect Mauricio Macri, fresh from Sunday’s run-off election win, promised a “marvelous” new era

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s “woefully inadequate” anti-money laundering system has left the country wide open to corrupt money and terrorism funds and needs radical overhaul, a leading anti-corruption group said on Monday. Each year billions of pounds of dirty money