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President Donald Trump said during his address to Congress Tuesday evening that he “strongly supports” NATO, but that they must meet their financial obligations.

Leaving the European Union (EU) presents “massive opportunities” for Britain to boost trade with the rest of the world, the new boss of the Institute of Directors (IoD) has said.

Border violations at Ceuta and Melilla, autonomous port cities on the North African coast which have been Spanish for hundreds of years, have tripled over the past month following Moroccan threats to terminate security co-operation.

A Labour-run London council has become the first nationwide to allow its schools to opt out of providing Christian assemblies.

Germany and other net contributors to the EU will have to pay more into the bloc’s budget once Britain has walked out, budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Tuesday, insisting however that they would not foot all of the UK’s share.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mourners in South Africa held a funeral on Tuesday for a British woman who was brutally assaulted and killed by attackers at her farm.

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker will on Wednesday unveil his plan for the EU’s future after Britain’s departure, his spokesman said.

A Finnish police officer on Tuesday was cleared of charges of negligence over the appearance of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name on a database of criminal suspects.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government will oppose a second term for fellow Pole Donald Tusk as the European Council chief at next week’s EU summit, the head of Poland’s conservative ruling party said Tuesday.

A huge surge in the number of illegal migrants attempting dangerous winter sea crossings to Europe has been driven by the increasing brutality of local authorities and people-smugglers in North Africa, according to reports.

One of Europe’s most senior foreign ministers has warned against “punishing” the UK in a Brexit deal, as shunning the bloc’s second largest economy could spell a “catastrophe” and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.

A large bus protesting the rise of gender ideology is touring Spain, infuriating left wing campaigners. The bus is emblazoned with the slogan “Boys have penises. Girls have vaginas. Don’t be fooled.”

At least two former Guantánamo Bay detainees from the United Kingdom have reportedly re-engaged in terrorist activities. One carried out a suicide attack on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq last week, and the other has reportedly joined a group affiliated with al-Qaeda in Syria.

Marine Le Pen winning the presidency of France will be “game over” for the European Union (EU), the former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said.

The Swedish domestic intelligence agency has warned the Swedish public that despite there being fewer people travelling abroad to fight for groups like Islamic state, the number of radical Islamist sympathisers is on the rise.

Over 500,000 confidential patient documents were mislaid and left undelivered in the latest National Health Service (NHS) fiasco.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s budget chief is suggesting that member countries could in the future put aside a portion of their tax revenues from oil to help finance the bloc.

ROME (AP) — Mount Etna has erupted in a fiery show of lava in eastern Sicily.

The Italian intelligence agency has warned the country’s lawmakers that an attack from Islamic State is likely and Rome is the most probable target for the radical Islamist group.

Hundreds of German police have launched raids across Berlin, targeting a mosque and Muslim association linked to radical Islamists and the Islamic State Christmas Market attacker.

European officials are mounting an unprecedented campaign to block President Trump’s putative nomination of Ted Malloch as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union (EU).

Paris authorities say a high school principal was hit by a projectile, suffering mild head injuries, as student protesters blocked several schools in renewed demonstrations against police violence.

Former UK Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has released a whiteboard animation to explain what lies beneath the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and why it is so dangerous.

Islam is a totalitarian ideology, not a religion, and therefore a Dutch constitutional commitment to freedom of religion shouldn’t apply to it, Geert Wilders has said.

The state prosecution service of Denmark is bringing blasphemy charges against a man who burned a copy of the Koran in his garden and then posted a video of the act on a Facebook page.

Police have confirmed that a grenade exploded in the Malmo suburb of Lindängen, injuring one in what they are saying was an attempt at murder. Police cordoned off a townhouse in Malmo’s Lindängen district after reports of an explosion that they believed to

German cities held their annual Rose Monday float parades today, with many mocking U.S. President Donald Trump, Brexit, and European populist leaders. The carnival celebrations in Germany are one of the biggest holidays of the year and a part of

Agents working on behalf of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) to collect TV Licence Fees are encouraged to use ruthless methods by a system of aggressive financial incentives, suggest secret recordings.

European Union (EU) migrants arriving in the UK are expected to lose the right to stay permanently next month when the prime minister formally invokes Article 50, triggering the Brexit process.

A daughter can make a man do almost anything. I know: I’ve got one and I am putty in her hands.

Journalists accused of bias. Judges said to be taking orders from the president. The country in a state of “near civil war.”

The Spanish coast guard rescued 257 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe from Morocco in inflatable dinghies in an “intense weekend,” they said Monday.

Nightmarish conditions in Libya are helping to drive a surge in the numbers of migrants attempting to reach Italy in the depths of winter, humanitarian officials and asylum seekers say.

Former Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt has hit back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump, insisting mass migration has strengthened the country, which he said is becoming safer.

Austria’s foreign minister called Monday for setting up mass holding camps in North Africa for migrants, a plan dismissed by his German counterpart as unrealistic.

A UK Independence Party spokesman has called on West Midlands Police to “clarify” their position on prosecuting female genital mutilation cases, following a tweet by the force shedding doubt on a zero-tolerance approach.