The World Economic Forum (WEF) released the results of a survey Sunday, just before its annual summit in Davos, showing that more than two thirds of Italians consider immigration to be “mostly bad” for the country.

PARIS (AP) – French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting 150 world business leaders in a bid to promote his pro-business agenda, as yellow vest protesters take to the streets against his economic policies.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government says that in a first, more asylum-seekers were transferred to other European Union countries than Germany took in last year.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven on Monday presented his two-party, centre-left minority government that has ended a four-month political deadlock.

LONDON (AP) – Prime Minister Theresa May is set to unveil her new plan to break Britain’s Brexit deadlock – and it’s expected to look a lot like the old plan decisively rejected by Parliament last week.

Peter Lilley has hit back at Project Fear stories that Britain will be worse off if it leaves the EU without a deal, saying the country will spend less on EU tariffs and goods would not be held up at ports.

 The Czech Republic is launching a programme to pay non-EU migrants to go home, noting that funding the scheme would cost taxpayers “far less” than if migrant groups targeted remained in the country.

Israel is moving full steam ahead with its efforts toward foreign recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s official capital.

Boris Johnson has warned that, if successful, the current round of parliamentary plots to delay or outright derail Brexit will lead to “vicious and unparalleled contempt for the whole political class” among the voting public.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand has vowed her country will stand by Britain after Brexit, encouraging it to leave the EU on terms which will allow the Kiwis to deepen their commercial ties to the mother country.

The Vatican received information in 2015 and 2017 that an Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis had taken naked selfies, exhibited “obscene” behavior and had been accused of misconduct with seminarians, his former vicar general told The Associated Press, undermining Vatican claims that allegations of sexual abuse were only made a few months ago.

Nine migration-background men have been sentenced for a brutal and unprovoked series of violent assaults involving corrosive substances, described as “homophobic” in the media.

TEL AVIV – Malaysia’s prime minister said his country has a “right” to deny entry to Israelis and that it was “unfair to label him as anti-Semitic” due to his anti-Semitic remarks, which have included calling Jews “hook-nosed” and claiming they have an obsession with money. 

PARIS (AP) – Several thousand protesters have marched in Paris against abortion and medically-assisted reproduction.

People including employees of an asylum home in the German town of Guben are said to have been injured after a migrant went after employees armed with a hatchet.

A new bilateral Wine Agreement and Mutual Recognition Agreement was signed in London on Saturday designed to help ease the continued flow of post-Brexit trade between Australia and the UK.

Britain’s Secretary of State for International Trade has warned that if politicians refuse to respect the people’s vote to Leave the European Union it could unleash a “political tsunami” with “unknowable consequences” for the stability of the realm.

LONDON (AP) – Northern Ireland police and politicians have condemned a “reckless” car bombing outside a courthouse in the city of Londonderry.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) – As the world’s financial and political elites convene here in the Swiss Alps for the World Economic Forum, their vision of ever-closer commercial and political ties is under attack – and the economic outlook is darkening.

A former imam from Pakistan who migrated to Germany and converted to Christianity now claims that he faces death threats in his native country from many including members of his own family.

George Orwell famously wrote in his essay The Lion and the Unicorn that there’s a certain type of Englishman who loathes and despises his own country.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that the European Union must deepen its defence cooperation, including developing shared weapons systems.

Members of the European Parliament have voted in favour of introducing financial sanctions as punishment for patriotic countries that reject the bloc’s progressive “European values.”

Chairman of the European Research Group Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that attempts to extend the deadline for the UK’s exit from the EU are a Remainer plot to stop Brexit.

PARIS (AP) — Yellow vest protesters are planning rallies in several French cities despite a national debate launched this week by President Emmanuel Macron aimed at assuaging their anger.

The Austrian government has released statistics showing that in 2017, four out of every ten migrants who claimed to be underage were lying in order to have a better chance of getting asylum.

Anti-Brexit journalists and politicians have been criticised for appearing to cheer the death of older voters, hoping attrition of the largely Brexit-voting demographic will allow them to win a re-run of the 2016 referendum on Britain’s EU membership.

British Transport Police figures have revealed that violent crime on London’s underground has risen by 43 percent in just three years, while the highest increase were weapons offences at 125 percent.

LONDON (AP) — Former British foreign secretary Boris Johnson has urged Prime Minister Theresa May to use her crushing parliamentary defeat as leverage to get a better Brexit deal from European Union leaders.

A 41-year-old Afghan migrant has been charged by Swedish prosecutors in connection with the alleged murder of his teenage wife in Stockholm in 2016 after being on the run for two years.