The government has insisted its timetable for triggering Article 50 and leaving the European Union (EU) is on track, despite a defeat in the House of Lords supported by the Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders.
Despite its good intentions, minimum wage legislation overwhelmingly harms many people with disabilities, condemning them to a life of unemployment, according to a recent report.
Universities across the UK have been told by Prime Minister Theresa May to “investigate and swiftly address” anti-Semitism on their campuses as so-called Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) begins in higher education institutions around the world.
The media and Swedish politicians were in an uproar after President Donald J. Trump chose to highlight the negative effects of mass migration in Sweden. But ten days later, here are ten incidents that proved him right.
The European Union is pleading with member countries to step up the relocation of asylum-seekers from Italy and Greece, seeking to give new momentum to a plan that has fallen far short of its targets.
DUBLIN (AP) — Northern Ireland’s voters are deciding who should lead them, an election overshadowed by acrimony between the dominant Irish Catholic and British Protestant parties. Thursday’s elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly will determine which parties on each side
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has demanded the release of German journalist Deniz Yucel from Turkish custody.
Germany saw more than 3,500 attacks against refugees and asylum shelters last year, interior ministry data showed, amounting to nearly 10 acts of anti-migrant violence a day as the country grapples with a record influx of newcomers.
A serial rapist from Morocco — who also robbed and drugged his victims — could have assaulted as many as 230 people since 2015, Belgian investigators say.
LONDON (AFP) – British lawmakers should not boycott the 2018 World Cup in protest at Russian leader Vladimir Putin, a parliamentary committee said on Thursday.
BERLIN (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel starts a two-day trip to Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday, part of her push to limit migrant flows to Europe through North Africa, especially chaos-torn Libya.
Veterans for Britain has reiterated its concern the UK is being entangled in advanced plans for European military integration despite the Brexit vote, following the semi-official announcement of an ad hoc European Union (EU) military headquarters.
Britain’s economy is going from strength to strength following the Brexit vote, with Dyson announcing a massive new tech hub, travel agent Expedia doubling its workforce, proposals to create thousands of jobs in Belfast, and the prospect of a billion-pound Chinese property investment in the City of London.
A new report on religious persecution in Communist China suggests that things are getting progressively worse, not better, for people of faith in the officially atheist country.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s unelected House of Lords on Wednesday handed the government a stinging – though likely temporary – defeat on its plans to leave the European Union, resolving that EU citizens should be promised the right to stay
TEL AVIV – Islamic State radicals are urging Western supporters to carry out terror attacks against Jewish communities by dressing up as Jews, using bombs, knives and – in the ultimate irony – Israeli martial arts Krav Maga.
Wednesday on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman decried what he deemed to be economic nationalism coming from President Donald Trump. Friedman championed globalist institutions like the European Union and other trade deals for preventing war. He cited World
A Muslim convert from London, who wrote in his diary how he planned to buy a nine-year-old virgin slave girl after he joined Islamic State, faces jail for terrorism offences.
Europe could be inundated with as many as 20 million African migrants over the coming years, the president of the European Parliament has warned.
BERLIN (AP) — German media say the country’s Parliament has been offline for hours but that hacking is not suspected.
An Iraqi asylum seeker has been jailed for luring a “vulnerable”, drunk woman into his basement and raping her after she missed the last bus home.
Zoltán Kovács, official spokesman for the office of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has said “left-wing and liberal politicians” in the European Union (EU) are attacking his country because they cannot accept its refusal to permit illegal immigrants to violate its borders en masse.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Human Rights Watch has accused Poland of endangering asylum-seekers who attempt to enter the country from Belarus by denying them the right to apply for asylum and returning them to its autocratic neighbor.
Conservative candidate Francois Fillon refused to quit France’s roller-coaster presidential race Wednesday despite receiving a summons to face charges of faking government-paid parliamentary jobs for his family.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s defense minister says the nation owes its freedom to anti-communist fighters who did not lay down arms after World War II.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has spoken out against importing labour, asserting that increased ethnic and religious diversity bring problems to a nation.
UK Independence Party MP Douglas Carswell has held secret talks with members of the Conservative Party on the possibility of re-joining ahead of the 2020 general election, it has emerged.
The Channel 4 News network has seen a cache of secret emails which suggest the prime minister’s chief of staff, Nick Timothy, may have helped the Conservative Party break electoral spending rules in South Thanet during the general election in 2015.
Earlier this week, as I’m sure you know, was International Polar Bear Day. Usually I celebrate by tossing a well-marinaded bear haunch onto the barbecue – note to novices: DO NOT eat the liver.
Google and Facebook will be working with the mainstream media to tell voters “what and who to trust”, including “memes, comment threads and news sites”, in the lead up to the French elections.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing heavy criticism for claiming the German people, or Volk, are comprised of anyone currently living in Germany regardless of their background.
Germany will have to pay more into the European Union (EU) budget to make up the €9 billion (£7.7 billion) shortfall when the United Kingdom leaves the bloc, European Commissioner Günther Oettinger has said.
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — Luxembourg authorities say they have fended off a cyberattack that sought to swamp official servers with connection requests, and there was no data breach.
MOSCOW (AFP) – When Anna Kuzeva became pregnant with her second child, she was terrified. With no home, money or family in Moscow, she saw no way of keeping the baby. So she scheduled an abortion.
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Legalising all drugs, banning a blackface children’s character, scrapping Sunday shopping and introducing mobile apps to tell MPs how to vote are some of the unorthodox ideas being peddled by Dutch political parties.
A Labour councillor has been suspended from the local party after throwing a Nazi salute towards UKIP and Conservative politicians.
An Eritrean migrant who murdered a 55-year-old woman and her son in an Ikea because his asylum application had been rejected is requesting to serve his sentence in Eritrea after being threatened and beaten in multiple Swedish prisons.
A report from global accountancy and business advice firm BDO indicates that confidence at British factories is soaring in the wake of the Brexit vote, as manufacturing giant Boeing announces the UK will host its first European plant.
VILLOGNON (FRANCE) (AFP) – A French policeman accidentally fired his weapon Tuesday, slightly injuring two people at an event where President Francois Hollande was speaking in southwestern France, an informed source said.
French anti-mass migration presidential candidate Marine Le Pen faces a loss of her parliamentary immunity and an investigation over tweets she posted of Islamic State violence in 2015.
