LONDON (AP) — Iceland will be the first country in the world to make employers prove they offer equal pay regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexuality or nationality, the Nordic nation’s government said Wednesday – International Women’s Day.
A 31-year-old Pakistani man went on trial Wednesday in Berlin on allegations he operated as a spy for Iran in Europe, collecting information on possible Israeli and Jewish targets for attack in Germany and France.
MPs are set to debate whether to abolish the TV licence fee, used to subsidise the BBC, after a petition calling for it to be axed passed the 100,000 signatures mark.
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Hundreds of posters displayed in a migrant-dominated part of Barcelona are urging Muslim men to marry Spanish women in a bid to spread Islam, and inviting members of the community to an “information meeting”.
London Assembly Member David Kurten has hailed President Donald Trump’s White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway in a speech in the assembly chamber today, International Women’s Day.
The head of the European Union’s (EU) law enforcement agency has said terror and criminal networks have “exploded in size and capability” and Europe now faces its “highest threat for a generation”.
Representatives of Hungarian NGOs funded by George Soros, the billionaire financier and open borders campaigner, complain that proposals to increase financial transparency for foreign-funded groups constitute an “unprecedented attack” on “European values”.
Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders announced Tuesday his visit to an animal sanctuary had been cancelled after threats from “anti-fascist” protesters.
Two people have been killed and a police officer hospitalised after a man went on a knife-wielding rampage in Wolverhampton on Wednesday.
New guidelines drawn up by the Sentencing Council instruct judges to take into account the “discrimination and negative experiences of authority” experienced by “black and minority ethnic children and young people” when handing down rulings, in “a complete reversal” of the principle that “the law is the same for everyone regardless of background, race or gender”.
Danish radio station Radio24syv claims to have received a tip from someone in Rinkeby that Russian journalists attempted to pay residents in Rinkeby to “make trouble”.
The heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö has grown by almost 6,000 people in the last year and authorities say the main reason for the growth is due to mass migration.
British Chancellor Philip Hammond has unveiled his first budget, promising big increases in government spending, and some relief for small businesses, but also hitting the self-employed with higher taxes.
A senior official in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday accused the United States of provoking tensions after two separate incidents in the Gulf last week.
The Student Union (SU) at Lincoln University has forced the Conservative Society to suspend their social media accounts, allegedly because they used the platform to criticise the institution’s restrictions on free speech.
Pedestrian traffic lights showing female figures rather than male have been installed in Melbourne to reduce “unconscious bias” and promote gender equality, officials said on International Women’s Day on Wednesday.
Eight Germans went on trial Tuesday in the city of Dresden for allegedly forming a neo-Nazi terrorist organization and carrying out bombing attacks on asylum-seeker facilities and left-wing political targets.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s finance minister says Russia is conducting a “propaganda war” through fake news to try to garner influence abroad, and it has to stop.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s influential finance minister says it’s in “everyone’s interest” to avoid a further escalation in tensions between Berlin and Ankara and that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would help by toning down his rhetoric.
BERLIN (AP) — A 32-year-old man has been convicted of 15 counts of attempted murder and attempted arson in eastern Germany for a petrol-bomb attack on an asylum seekers’ home.
PARIS (AP) — The prosecutor’s office for the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis said that some 50 young people have been detained for allegedly throwing stones at police cars, setting fires and lobbing smoke bombs into a school.
Marine Le Pen, the populist frontrunner in France’s presidential race, has declared that “the economic patriotism” she wants “is impossible in the European Union”.
A new report from a UN committee on women’s rights has slammed Ireland’s pro-life laws, demanding that the predominantly Catholic nation alter the Eighth Amendment to its constitution that bans the procedure.
The leader of Italy’s right wing populist Lega Nord party has accused the left of having “blood on its hands” after a fire in a migrant camp claimed the lives of two African men.
A large police presence cordoned off an area outside Victoria railway station in central London after two men were stabbed in the late afternoon on Tuesday.
The House of Lords has voted to force the government to give parliament a vote on the final Brexit deal, in a second defeat for the government.
The BBC has thrown its feminist High Priestess to the transgender wolves because she dared to suggest that a man born with a penis isn’t really a woman.
The Hungarian government’s decision to rapidly construct strong border fences along their frontiers has had a positive financial effect, achieving substantial savings on the cost of illegal immigration.
A woman filmed “twerking” with a man whilst wearing a hijab in Birmingham has been forced to publicly apologise after the footage went viral and she was sent death threats.
One of London’s major transport centres was in chaos Tuesday afternoon after London Bridge Station was shut due to a “suspicious vehicle” left nearby. Police were seen deploying a bomb disposal robot as workers and travellers left the station and
The Czech Republic is weighing a Second Amendment-like change to their constitution to protect gun rights from an ever-encroaching European Union (EU).
Rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon appears to have won his battle to stay in France’s election, but his fake job scandal will have a lasting impact on the vote and beyond.
An online robot lawyer designed to help people overturn unfair parking tickets has been adapted by its creator to help migrants claim asylum in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.
Hungary’s parliament on Tuesday approved the automatic detention of all asylum-seekers in container camps at the country’s southern borders, brushing off concerns from rights groups.
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, is gearing up to lead a charge for ‘more Europe’ in the face of calls to create a two-tier European project, sources within the Commission have said.
One week from the Dutch elections, the leader of the mainstream conservative party has demanded all school children sing and “respect” the national anthem, in a sign that populist Geert Wilders is pulling political discourse to the right.
Newly built primary schools in Glasgow will have just one set of bathroom facilities for both boys and girls in a move the city’s Education Services say “assists in the LGBT agenda”.
Award-winning war correspondent Magda Gad has tweeted from Iraq that the war-torn city is safer for women, and more peaceful than Sweden’s capital city.
TIGNES, FRANCE (AFP) – An avalanche hit a ski slope in the popular French Alps resort of Tignes on Tuesday, engulfing “many” skiers, police said.
