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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – A British daredevil known for his vertigo-inspiring online videos chronicling his climbs up buildings and construction cranes was interrogated by Dubai police over his recent ascents in the sheikhdom, authorities said Sunday. James Kingston’s interrogation

The UK Independence Party will remain at the forefront of bringing radical change to British politics, its leader has promised, even as the country prepares to leave the European Union. For more than 20 years UKIP has built its policy

BERLIN (AP) – Germany planned to close its border with Austria and turn back asylum seekers in September 2015, a move that could have dramatically changed the course of the European migrant crisis that was at its peak at the

London (AFP) – Tony Blair has had no discussions about working for US President Donald Trump, his spokesman said Sunday after reports that the former British prime minister sought to become his Middle East adviser. According to The Mail on Sunday newspaper, Blair

The rate of beheadings and Islamist-inspired stabbings has risen 11-fold in the last five years according to a major new report. Terror attacks in the UK also tripled during this period. The 1000-page report by the Henry Jackson Society examines all

Cardiff Metropolitan University has warned its students and staff to stop using gendered words as part of an effort to make “all students and staff feel valued”.

Poland on Saturday proposed a counter-candidate to Donald Tusk as European Council head, saying the Polish incumbent has hurt his country’s interests.

Four globalist newspapers have teamed up to work on an 18 month project they hope will “show the human side” of mass migration to Europe.

The number of adult baptisms in the Austrian Catholic church has more than doubled over the last year. The church claims the rise is due to a huge influx of migrants from Afghanistan and Iran converting to Christianity. The Archdiocese

A French junior school teacher has been suspended after he read passages from the Bible to students, aged between nine and 11.

An 18-year-old Somali asylum seeker is said to have sexually abused two elderly men in a retirement home and attacking the wife of one of the men leading to her death. He will now go to trial. The Somali is said

Sweden’s Integration Minister, from the ruling liberal party, has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn after she falsely told BBC the number of reported of rapes in Sweden was falling.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) that is just 11 days away from potentially winning the Dutch general election has hit out at so-called “hate preachers” who have used their religious influence to call on their followers

MOSCOW (AFP) – An ultra-conservative Russian lawmaker on Saturday urged the culture ministry to check Disney’s upcoming film “Beauty and the Beast” for possible breaches of a law banning “gay propaganda”.

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police say they have arrested 24 members of a Colombian drug ring seeking to establish a network for the wholesale distribution of cocaine.

DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s snap election has left the rival extremes of politics virtually neck and neck for the first time — and facing a bruising battle to put their Catholic-Protestant government back together again in an increasingly polarized landscape.

Aided by a politically correct culture of “tolerance”, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is secretly building a “parallel” society in Sweden by infiltrating organisations and political parties, a government report has concluded.

ANKARA (AFP) – Turkey hit back at German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday for not criticising the decision by authorities in Germany to ban rallies in support of expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers.

MADRID (AP) — A Spanish organization says its rescue ship has saved 250 migrants in danger of capsizing near the Libyan coast.

The Gatestone Institute reports Saturday on the continuing de-Christianisation of formerly Catholic France, and the growing presence and importance of Islam in its stead. Remarking that “Instead of fighting to save what is savable, French opinion-makers are already writing the

A radicalised white convert, who worked in Asda, planned to leave the UK and join Islamic State because Brexit caused “division” in the Muslim community, a court has heard.

Even before the Europe Migrant Crisis realised its full potential and saw millions of so-called refugees streaming into Europe, Germany welcomed millions of “non-Europeans” in the decade leading to 2015, dwarfing even the massive movement of Turks as guest workers

PARIS (AP) — The once promising presidential bid of French conservative Francois Fillon, already seriously hobbled by pending corruption charges, was coming unraveled Friday with the resignation of his campaign director and his campaign spokesman, adding momentum to a stream of defections and panicking his party.

LONDON (AFP) – British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is to travel to Russia in the coming weeks for high-level political talks, his office said Saturday. It will be the first time a British minister has been to Moscow for an official visit

(REUTERS) – A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in France with a machete was sentenced to seven years in jail on Thursday by a French juvenile court, judicial sources said.

LONDON (AFP) – Britain could legally leave the European Union without settling its accounts with the bloc, lawmakers said Saturday, while warning of the political risks of such an approach.

The German town of Gaggenau received a bomb threat forcing police to cordon off the area around the town hall after a pro-Turkish rally was cancelled in the area.

The European Parliament is to create a “private army” to protect its president and MEPs as part of an almost two-billion euro spending spree. Britain, despite its vote to Leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, will help foot the bill.

DUBLIN (AP) — Sinn Fein, the Irish nationalist party, has fallen just short of becoming the largest party in elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly.

A pair of Swedish police in Stockholm were torn from their police car and had it stolen during a riot outside a nightclub hosting a hip hop concert that involved up to 40 people.

“Are food bloggers fuelling racist stereotypes”, asks the BBC in a headline on its news website, the article highlighting concern about “microaggressions” in food media.

Birmingham City Council has told a Catholic school it is free to prohibit the Islamic headscarf after a Muslim councilor forced teachers to allow a four-year-old to dress in a hijab.

The Mayor of Calais has banned food distribution to migrants in the city in a bid to prevent yet another ‘Jungle’ migrant camp from springing up.

In a new video message, Pope Francis calls attention to the dramatic phenomenon of systematic Christian persecution, urging Christians to pray for their persecuted brothers and sisters throughout the world.

Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, claims the “rigged media” turned his prime minister “into a racist overnight” by deliberately misrepresenting his recent comments on ethnicity.

PARIS (AP) — Aid groups feeding migrants in the northern French port city of Calais are defying a municipal order to stop.