ROME – Italy has expelled a Moroccan man after investigations revealed he wanted to commit acts of terrorism and planned to travel to Syria, the interior minister said on Tuesday. The 40-year-old, who had briefly acted as a Muslim cleric
End of year statistics released by the Federal German state of Saxony has shown a steep increase in immigrant crime, with a growing number of multiple offenders responsible for the rise since 2014. The increase is significant in the east German Free State
Germany’s Human Rights Commissioner has asserted that Turkey does not belong in the European Union until its human rights record improves – a standpoint that puts him at odds with EU leaders and his country’s leader Angela Merkel. In an
LONDON (AP) — A husband and wife interested in helping Islamic State extremists have been convicted of planning a large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s
Just hours after Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn issued a challenge to Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron to take him on annually in a “State of The Nation” debate, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader has issued his own challenge back
A newly released religious ruling, or fatwa, handed down by the ISIL Committee of Research and Fatwas stipulates in great detail the sexual conduct of Islamic State slave owners toward their infidel female captives.
A man died on Christmas Day in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a condom machine that he and two accomplices blew up in an apparent robbery attempt, police said on
Nearly one inmate a week on average has been mistakenly released from prison over the last decade, new figures reveal. Just under a quarter of those accidentally let go were serving time for burglary or violent offences. According to data
Prime Minister David Cameron has been told to divert money from the escalating foreign aid budget and instead help British flood victims. This follows the release of new estimates revealing the cost of this month’s disaster in Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire could
Police in Belgium have arrested two people on suspicion of plotting terror attacks in Brussels on New Year’s Eve. Anti-terror raids took place in Brussels, Flemish Brabant and Liege on Sunday and Monday, with police seizing military clothing and computer
British newspapers tend to bury bad news from Brussels on the international pages of their publications. It is as if what happens in Brussels is really not relevant to our lives in the UK. I have railed against this for years, to little
President Andrzej Duda on Monday signed into law a controversial bill reforming Poland’s constitutional court despite widespread domestic opposition and mounting alarm in the international community. Thousands of people have taken to the streets over changes pushed through by the
Civilian casualties of bombing Syria represent at least as great a crime as the Paris attacks, a senior hard left German politician has claimed. The leader of the Left Party in Germany’s Bundestag (Parliament) was comparing the anti-Islamic State coalition bombing Syria
Around 4,000 migrants and refugees were saved from waters between Italy and North Africa over the course of the Christmas weekend, with further rescue operations expected in the final days of an “exceptional” year, officials said Monday. The Italian coastguard
When I was one of those Westminster Tory twats who thought a good night out involved hanging around in the subsidised bars in the Houses of Parliament, I once came across a Labour Party researcher who demanded: “You’re Asian, you
France called Monday on the European Union to do more to detect false Syrian passports, especially in Greece and Italy, after two of the suicide bombers in the Paris attacks were found to be carrying such documents. The attacks “unfortunately
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian allies will support British Prime Minister David Cameron if he wants to address Europe’s weaknesses but do not want a British Europe, an EU conservative leader told a German newspaper. Britain is due to hold
The mosque at the centre of the San Bernardino terrorist attack is back in the spotlight after one of the organisation’s clerics, Roshan Abbassi, was found to have had repeated contact with terrorist Syed Farook in the months before the deadly
A report by the Resolution Foundation, a London-based group that works to “shape the debate on economic and social policy” has called on the government to indulge in positive discrimination towards ethnic minorities to close the so-called ’employment gap’ between migrants
While millions across Europe recover from Christmas and prepare to celebrating new year’s eve at public firework displays, security services are scrambling to prevent terror attacks which will seek to target large gatherings of people enjoying the holiday. Vienna police are working
The number of primary school-aged children, some as young as four, beginning to “transition” their gender is rising rapidly in the UK. The popularity of the fad appears to be clustered, with children copying others in the same schools. Up
A newly released video captured Kurdish freedom fighters blowing up an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) suicide bomber, who was attempting to drive a Ford pickup truck carrying a ton of TNT across the Kurdish frontline near Mosul in northern Iraq.
Northern Britain has spent Christmas being inundated with floods of “biblical proportions”. For green activists like Bill McKibben this is obviously another consequence of man-made climate change. And the politicians agree – not just left wing ones like Hilary Benn but
The government is drawing up plans to pull Britain out of the Convention on European Rights and replace it with a Bill of Rights in a bid to protect British soldiers from being pursued by “ambulance-chasing” human rights lawyers. Over
The eurozone is not expected to welcome any new members in the coming years, as the region’s long crisis seems to have put some countries off, deputy European Commission chief said in a newspaper interview Monday. “No new members are
More than a third of doctors on Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) were born abroad, new figures reveal, raising fears of patient safety as medics struggle to make themselves understood. Figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Islamist extremists are increasingly using British jails as fertile venues to recruit inmates as potential terrorists, the departing chief inspector of prisons has warned. Nick Hardwick spoke out after the former head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard was appointed to succeed
In the wake of the ongoing migration crisis, Germany’s federal states have hired up to 8,500 new teachers to give special ‘welcome classes’ for child migrants, with at least another 1,500 anticipated. The impact of the influx of migrants on Germany’s infrastructure has
France will throw open access to police and legal archives drawn from one of the country’s darkest hours, when the Vichy regime collaborated with Nazi occupiers during World War II, authorities said Sunday. Starting Monday the archives can be “freely
The mother of one of the Paris attackers has told a local Belgian television station that she had missed the warning signs, and not spotted that her son had been radicalised. Fatima Hadfi, who said she was the mother of
Tensions are rising on the Mediterranean Island of Corsica, a province of France, where authorities have banned all public protest after a series of anti-Muslim demonstrations were triggered by attacks on police and Firemen in a primarily Muslim neighbourhood. The unrest
BERLIN – Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (pictured above) and a senior Bavarian politician criticised Greece on Sunday over the way it is managing its role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two. Schaeuble, who has clashed repeatedly
Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest against Turkey’s military crackdown against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels, local police said. The marchers, demonstrating on behalf of Germany’s federation of Kurdish groups, Nav-Dem, also slammed the European Union
BERLIN (Reuters) – German business leaders fear that deep divisions over how to handle the refugee crisis and growing nationalism among member states could break up the European Union, according to five of the country’s biggest industry bodies. The arrival
The Muslim boycott of the government’s anti-radicalisation programme Prevent is being masterminded by Islamists who see any counter-radicalisation programme as an attack on Islam itself, a Muslim organisation that works to de-radicalise young Muslims has said. The Prevent program, which
The Belgian authorities are questioning staff at a Brussels school attended by one of the Paris attackers whose warnings that he had become worryingly radicalised were missed, press reports said Saturday. The reports, based on Flemish language dailies De Morgen
Around 300 potential terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants try to enter Britain each day, with 99,500 alerts issued by the National Border Targeting Centre (NBTC) last year. Figures show the number of potentially dangerous passengers being detected has risen by
Every port in northern France could be fenced off to prevent Europe’s migrant invasion further spilling across the Channel – and British taxpayers will be left to foot the bill. French police are so bewildered by the human influx that the only
The head of the British government’s charities regulator says Muslim charities face a “deadly” threat from terrorist infiltration, with some being used to promote, and recruit for, violent jihad. Latest figures from the Charity Commission show the number of serious incidents
Czech President Milos Zeman (above right), known for his anti-migrant comments, on Saturday called the current wave of refugees to Europe “an organised invasion”, and that young men from Syria and Iraq should instead “take up arms” against the Islamic
