France’s strict gun controls–including universal background checks, licensing requirements, and all-out bans on whole categories of guns–proved impotent as a 17-year-old suspect opened fired on a high school in Grasse.
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has denounced threats by Emmanuel Macron and others to get rid of British border checks in Calais, calling for strong French borders instead.
French authorities have issued a terror warning after a gunman opened fire in a technical school in the south of France injuring several people. The attack occurred Thursday afternoon at the Alexis de Tocqueville military school located in the French riviera town of Grasse in
PARIS (AFP) – The Eurostar high-speed train service said Thursday that its earnings performance last year was derailed by the terror attacks in Paris and Brussels.
PARIS (AP) — Paris police say a letter bomb exploded at the French office of the International Monetary Fund, lightly injuring one person.
LONDON (AP) — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair won’t face an investigation into whether he misled Parliament before the 2003 Iraq invasion unless new evidence emerges, a committee of lawmakers said Thursday.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s statistical agency says more than 1.2 million people applied for asylum in the bloc last year, mostly Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis.
LONDON (AP) — A bill authorizing Britain to start its exit from the European Union has received royal assent and is now law.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the Dutch national election (all times local):
(AFP) – An “explosive” package found at the office of the German finance minister was sent from Greece, a police source in Athens said on Thursday.
A fund has been set up to help an 83-year-old farmer forced to spend £30,000 to fund his own defence after he was prosecuted for shooting a convicted burglar in the foot when he intruded on his isolated Yorkshire farm.
The Electoral Commission has fined the Conservative party a record £70,000 over missing and unreported payments, claiming the rule breaking gave them a “realistic prospect” of an unfair advantage over UKIP in South Thanet.
The London artist who created a triangular warning sign featuring the silhouette of an Orthodox Jewish man has apologized for any offence caused by its display.
A trio of asylum seekers will be prosecuted after they livestreamed the rape of a young Swedish woman on Facebook from an apartment in the Swedish city of Uppsala in late January.
France is talking about eventually lifting the national state of emergency that has been in force since the November 2015 Paris terror attacks.
Federal prosecutors say they have charged a 23-year-old German man with membership in a terrorist organization for joining the Islamic State group in Syria.
A candidate in the race to be president of the National Union of Students has criticised the organisation for “relentlessly banging on about Israel”.
Days after clashes in which migrants and guards were shot and stabbed, France announced that the rapidly growing camp near the port of Dunkirk must be dismantled “as soon as possible”.
Wednesday’s Dutch general election saw a collapse of support for mainstream parties including the conservatives (VVD) and their coalition partners, Labour, but not enough to hand victory to insurgent movements like Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom (PVV). After polls closed
Thousands of Twitter accounts were hacked Tuesday night, resulting in anti-Netherlands tweets in Turkish spreading across the platform as users warned others to disable third-party app access to their accounts.
Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has responded to accusations of wrongdoing by “ivory tower” editors at The New York Times by saying that they “just don’t get” the European migrant crisis.
UKIP donor and Leave.EU founder Arron Banks has hinted at setting up a new political movement called ‘The Patriotic Alliance’.
A Bristol shopping centre was “just hours away” from a major terrorist suicide bombing, police have revealed.
Sweden’s health minister has promised more support for gender identity clinics, as it emerged that the number of children claiming to be in the wrong body has risen 100 per cent each year.
Three Sikh men have pleaded guilty to helping Afghan asylum seekers entered the UK under a scam involving British passports.
The Government does not expect to meet its commitment to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands within three years and could create a flexible immigration system after Brexit to protect migrant labour.
STRASBOURG (FRANCE) (AFP) – The European Union will not bow to “threats” from Britain that it is prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, the bloc’s president, Donald Tusk, said Wednesday.
BERLIN (AP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out anew against the Netherlands and European nations, repeating an assertion that the Dutch were responsible for the slaughter of Bosnians in Srebrenica in 1995 and saying the EU was “drowning” in its fear of Muslims and refugees.
At 6:30 am ECT, the people of the Netherlands officially began to cast ballots in the national election which is expected to have a much larger turnout than in previous years. But election day has not been without controversy.
The Reuters news agency has illustrated an article about its Dutch election coverage with a picture of a hijab-clad woman flanked by Turkish flags, in a move that has drawn criticism from its social media followers.
Turkey’s red meat association has ordered a consignment of prize Dutch cattle to be sent back to the Netherlands, saying it no longer wants to farm the cows due to the diplomatic crisis between the countries.
Opposition politicians have promised to fight plans by Arcore’s left wing local government which would see unvetted migrants walking young children to school in a project to teach pupils about ‘diversity’ and ‘humanity’.
West Midlands Police are appealing to the public to help track down three “Asian” men who racially abused and violently assaulted a 34-year-old woman and her male companion in an anti-white race hate attack last December. The Coventry Telegraph reports that the
Populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has mocked Theresa May for being “good at getting it wrong” after the UK Prime Minister failed to meet her, but did host her main rival.
Scottish Nationalists (SNP) are to abandon plans to immediately re-join the European Union (EU) if Scotland leaves the UK, as polls show Scots are more Eurosceptic than ever before and currently reject independence.
Meeting with the leader of the Christian Union in the last televised debate on the eve of Wednesday’s general election, Party For Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders accused his opposite of failing to stand up for Christians, and said resisting Islam was a matter of survival for the Netherlands.
The Swedish government has bowed to Turkish pressure, allowing the country’s Islamist government to organise rallies supporting a huge increase in powers for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on its soil.
Firebrand anti-Islamisation politician Geert Wilders wore a bulletproof vest during the televised debate with current Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his war of words with Europe this week. His favorite words appear to be “terrorist” and “Nazi.”
Paris (AFP) – Several top Twitter accounts, including those of a German football club, a French ministry and BBC North America, were defaced Wednesday by pro-Turkish hackers with a message slamming “Nazi Germany” and “Nazi Holland”.
