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BERLIN (AP) — Angela Merkel’s conservatives have formally nominated the German chancellor as her party’s top candidate for the September parliamentary election in the region where she has her political base.

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany’s domestic intelligence service, warns that the number of radical Islamists has grown enormously in the last four years. Since 2013, the number of Islamists has skyrocketed from a mere

The Dutch parliament is to hold an inquiry on whether it could ditch euro, amid growing scepticism of the European single currency.

WARSAW (AFP) – Poland said Friday it would have a British laboratory search for traces of explosives on samples from a 2010 plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people, including then-Polish president Lech Kaczynski. The state prosecutor’s office said the tests

A damning new report claims that the German Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, spied on foreign journalists from various outlets including Reuters and the BBC.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage addressed a raucous crowd at the American CPAC conference telling them that the great global revolution against globalism had only just begun. After being introduced by Breitbart London editor in chief Raheem Kassam, Mr Farage

Fresh from a tour of so-called ‘no-go zones’ across Europe, Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam has slammed the media establishment for playing down the phenomenon, telling them to “get your head out of your rears!”

Berlin (AFP) – The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a charter plane earlier this week, after some went into hiding. Fifty Afghans whose asylum requests had been

BERLIN (AP) – Germany is continuing to receive requests for asylum from Turks with diplomatic passports in the wake of a crackdown on the opposition following last year’s failed coup, the Interior Ministry said Friday. At least 136 people with

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland Friday morning President Donald Trump took a swipe at the security situation in Europe, which has seen a number of bloody terror attacks in recent years.

Breitbart London editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam is preparing to address the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Watch his speech here.

A new Gallup survey finds that 66 percent of Americans have a favorable view of British Prime Minister Theresa May.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, niece of Front National leader Marine, has been ranked as one of the most influential MPs in the French Parliament.

Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner in the first round of France’s upcoming presidential elections, has declared it is “time do away” with the European Union (EU), which has become a “bureaucratic monster”. According to EU Observer, the Front National leader

A group of witches is attempting to use black magic to neutralize U.S. President Donald Trump by casting a “binding spell” to prevent him from governing.

A British Islamist sectarian murderer has had his phone calls from inside prison restricted after it emerged he was using them to incite further violence. Tanveer Ahmed was jailed for 27 years last August for the brutal stabbing of Glasgow

A group of Christians has erected a massive cross outside the city of Mosul on land recently liberated from domination by the Islamic State terror group.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police say they are questioning 28 Iraqi citizens they found in southwestern Romania in the vicinity of the border with Serbia. A statement said Romanian police spotted the group during a sweep on Thursday

BERLIN (AP) — German officials are criticizing plans by the Russian military to build a replica of Berlin’s Parliament building as a target for Russian teenagers to attack at a patriotic theme park near Moscow. The Russian Defense Ministry said

PARIS (AFP) – French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen refused Friday to attend questioning by investigating magistrates over claims she broke the rules on the use of European Parliament funds. Le Pen, who is one of the frontrunners in

PRAGUE (AP) — A court in the Czech Republic has convicted a Czech man of an attempt to join the Islamic State militants in Syria and sentenced him to three years and three months in prison. The regional court in

Hungary is to start building a new fence on the Serbian border in the spring to hold back an expected new surge of migrants.

A man who burned the Islamic holy book in his backyard has been charged with blasphemy, in a move his lawyer speculates was driven by fear of Muslim extremists. The attempted prosecution is the first of its kind in nearly 50

Swedish prosecutors have dropped a case involving a man who married an underage girl in Syria and got her pregnant at 13 or 14-years-old because the crime took place abroad. The allegations of child rape were brought to the prosecutor

Head of Durham University Law School Professor Thom Brooks has told a Commons inquiry that people found guilty of committing ‘hate crimes’ should be put on an official register. A professor of law and government at the university, Brooks advised

German police in the state of Lower Saxony have announced the arrest of a radical Islamist who they say was plotting terror attacks against authorities. The prosecutor’s office in Celle and the police in Göttingen announced the arrest of the

Germans are braving rain, high winds and tight security to celebrate this year’s Carnival season.

A new poll shows Germany’s center-left Social Democrats nudging past Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc in support for the first time in more than a decade, riding a wave of enthusiasm from their surprise nomination of a new leader.

A topless protester burst into a hall where French right wing leader Marine Le Pen had just begun delivering a foreign policy speech on Thursday, shouting “Marine, Pretend Feminist”.

Paul Nuttall has insisted he will not stand down as UKIP’s leader after reducing Labour’s majority in the Stoke-on-Trent by-election, promising to target more seats in the future.

Immigrant residents of the notorious Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby are fed up with constant violence and have called for the deportation of entire families of criminal migrants.

The Copeland by-election has been won by the Conservative party, beating Labour by over 2,100 votes. The Conservative’s Trudy Harrison took 13,748. Labour took 11,601 votes. Other parties included the Liberal Democrats on 2,252, and UKIP on 2,025. The race

Labour have held on to the seat of Stoke-on-Trent central in a close run by-election, beating UKIP by 2,500 votes. The result makes Gareth Snell, a staunch ‘remainer’ who called Brexit a “pile of sh*t”, the new representative of one

LONDON (AP) — Powerful winds battered parts of northern Europe Thursday, disrupting transportation and killing a woman who was hit by flying debris in central England. In the Netherlands, the landing gear on a small passenger plane collapsed as it

PRAGUE (AP) — Explosions in a Czech machinery plant injured a total of 19 people with three of them in critical condition, officials said on Thursday. Police spokeswoman Hana Kaizarova said the first explosion occurred around 11 a.m. (1000 GMT)

ROME (AFP) – An Italian hospital’s decision to hire two medics to perform abortions has sparked a Catholic backlash in a country where most doctors refuse to terminate pregnancies, often for religious reasons. Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1978 under