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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Greek police say they have arrested two Pakistani migrant traffickers operating from Turkey.

Newly released statistics from the French Interior Ministry have revealed a massive 20 percent increase in the French homicide rate compared to the period of 2014 to 2015.

PARIS (AP) – A weekend of commemorations involving dozens of world leaders to mark 100 years since the end of World War I is underway, with Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau kicking off the events in France and elsewhere with a visit to a cemetery.

PARIS (AP) – In Paris to mark the centennial of World War I, President Donald Trump asked Saturday if there is anything better than celebrating the end of a war.

While the popularity of French President Emmanual Macron has seen a steady decline since he took power last year, polls have revealed a steady increase in popularity for U.S. President Donald Trump among the French people.

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström slammed Canadian professor Jordan Peterson’s recent visit to Stockholm saying the academic should “crawl back under the rock he came from.”

Freshly released polls show a massive surge in support for anti-mass migration populist parties in France, Italy, and Hungary with the pro-sovereignty parties now leading their rivals going into next year’s European Parliament election.

69-year-old Emile Ratelband wants to legally change his age to 49 so he can find a new job and meet more women on dating apps.

Former French secretary of state Philippe de Villiers has become the latest politician to denounce the growing violence in France saying the country is spiralling out of control.

Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage has warned that the British political class are “colluding” with their European counterparts to thwart Brexit after an email leak.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has spoken in praise of patriotism, saying that it helps his nation “build our modern identity.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a revolt within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as prominent members begin to opposed the UN migration pact recently rejected by several other countries.

The father of 11-year-old Stockholm terror victim Ebba Åkerlund has claimed that, on multiple occasions, an illegal immigrant has vandalised the gravesite of his deceased daughter.

The Hungarian government began a new national survey this week to tackle the problem of the country’s declining population without resorting to a policy of mass migration.

Sweden remains without a working government since the September election left the formerly ruling Social Democrats unable to form a coalition, and a growing number of voters are now calling for their own parties to consider working with the populist Sweden Democrats.

President of the European Council Donald Tusk has said that Poland could leave the European Union if it continues to clash with the bloc over migrants and judicial reform.

Germany’s outgoing intelligence chief has been forced into early retirement over a speech he gave in private denouncing “radical-left forces” in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition.

French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated calls for a European Union army, this time saying that it is needed to protect the bloc from China, Russia, and even the United States.

Police in the heavily migrant-populated Swedish city of Malmö say the two shootings and two separate explosions over the weekend are directly linked to rival gangs.

European leaders critical of Donald Trump’s decision to reimpose sanctions on Iran are now considering their own, after an alleged assassination plot in Denmark.

The anti-establishment Five Star Movement is seeing a decline as the popularity of Matteo Salvini rises, with some worried the League (Lega) leader may look to replace them in government.

A French inmate serving time in Tarascon prison has been accused by investigators of publishing propaganda for the Islamic State terror group using a smuggled phone.

Populist Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini is expected to drastically cut the daily allowance for migrants in Italy, with claims the country could see savings of up to 400 million euros by 2019.

MADRID (AP) – Spanish police say they have busted a crime ring that cloned credit cards and was headed by a man who had previously been found guilty of helping finance the September 11th attacks in 2001.

The chief of police in the Flemish municipality of Kruibeke has questioned why he should keep migrants from travelling to the UK when they do not want to remain in Belgium.

The popularity of French President Emmanuel Macron continues to decline to the lowest yet of his five-year term, as he moves to rally others around him ahead of the 2019 European Parliament elections.

Hungary is preparing to hold a country-wide national consultation on its family policy, which has already resulted in an increase in marriage and a decline in abortion and divorce.

Spanish police have arrested 13 people on suspicion of using black magic to coerce Brazilian transgenders into prostitution and drug dealing.

The municipality of Karlskrona has rejected calls from the populist Sweden Democrats and the conservative Christian Democrats to ban the public call to prayer at a local mosque. The municipality rejected the proposal to ban the public call to prayer saying that

Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has announced his first steps to start deporting illegal migrants which will see the country invest 12 million euros and expects to deport at least 2,700 illegals.

Italy’s populist government has joined Hungary in finding measures to naturally maintain its population without mass migration by proposing giving parents farmland if they are expecting their third child.

New research exposing a huge divide in attitudes to social issues has revealed that young eastern and central Europeans hold much more conservative views on topics such as gay marriage than people across all age groups in western Europe. The

A French court in Marseille has convicted 19 people belonging to a drug selling network that was led by a man who specialised in educating people about drug addiction. The 19 members of the network were handed down sentences of between

Organisers of the Christmas Market in Bruges have defended their decision to rebrand the medieval city’s popular event as a ‘Winter Market’ after outcry on social media called the move an attack on Belgian traditions and culture.

A French police officer in charge of security for Charlie Hebdo managing editor Riss has been relieved of duty after investigators found he had viewed radical Islamic material and feared he may have become radicalised himself.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Economic growth across the 19-country eurozone slowed in the third quarter to its slowest level for over four years, official figures showed Tuesday, in a development that’s likely to stoke worries about the impact of rising trade