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When U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump told The Times Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) was “so smart”, he added a coded warning for the bloc’s leaders: “People, countries want their own identity and the UK wanted its own identity … so if you ask me, I believe others will leave.”

President-elect Donald Trump’s latest shot across the bow of NATO hit close enough to leave some European leaders dripping with “astonishment and agitation,” as German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier put it.

TEL AVIV – Eighty-five percent of Jews around the world have witnessed or experienced antisemitism at some point in their lives, a survey by the World Zionist Organization’s International Center for Countering Anti-Semitism found.

A senior German lawmaker who speaks for the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on human rights and humanitarian aid has resigned from the party, citing Angela Merkel’s “open door” immigration policy and efforts to marginalise conservatives. Erika Steinbach, a representative of Frankfurt

British barrister Jolyon Maugham QC is set to launch a fresh Brexit court case in coming days, which will initially be heard in the Republic of Ireland. Maugham is seeking “a referral to the Court of Justice of the EU of

Hungary will detain all illegal migrants until their asylum applications have been processed, says János Lázár, who heads the office of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Professor Ted Malloch, tipped widely as the man Donald Trump will choose to serve as his ambassador to the European Union (EU), has told the BBC that Great Britain is now “at the front of the queue” for a trade deal with the United States.

An Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked group is urging “lone wolves” in the West to carry out attacks during the ongoing holiday season on “public venues including cinemas, malls and even hospitals,” and they are also advising Muslims to avoid locations hosting festivities in order to stay safe, reports The Foreign Desk (FD).

TEL AVIV – Antisemitism is not just a Jewish or Israeli problem, European Union coordinator on combating antisemitism Katharina von Schnurbein told the Jerusalem Post on Monday.

ROME, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Italian President Sergio Mattarella summoned Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni to the presidential palace on Sunday, in a strong indication that the head of state has chosen him to try to form a new government. Caretaker

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanians began voting Sunday in a parliamentary election a year after a massive anti-corruption drive forced the last Socialist prime minister from power. The country of about 19 million is one of the poorest in the

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Polls opened Sunday in Macedonia for a general election called two years early as part of a Western-brokered agreement to end a paralyzing political crisis. The crisis began after the opposition accused the conservative government of

The Islamic State has a new spokesman named Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajer, who took over after his predecessor Mohammad al-Adnani was killed in an airstrike near al-Bab, Syria.

A former president of the European Union’s (EU) executive arm has said Germany and its interests have come to dominate the bloc at the expense of other nations.

A video featuring Islamic State “sappers” instructing sympathizers in Europe and around the world on setting up explosive devices was shared by the organization’s propaganda service on Saturday.

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asserted on Wednesday that many in the U.S. and Europe are branding U.S. president-elect Donald Trump a “dictator” because he wasn’t their favoured candidate. Erdogan called on them to respect democracy.

Belgium has launched new security measures at Brussels Airport after suicide bombings there in March, taking inspiration from controls at Ben Gurion in Israel, among the most heavily protected airports in the world.

While Russia enhances Cold War-era Soviet Union survival measures, nearly 330 American Marines prepare to deploy to Norway in January, boosting the U.S. military footprint in Europe, reportedly marking the first time a foreign military has been posted in the European country since World War II amid heightened tensions between Washington and Moscow.

The Islamic State’s (ISIS/ISIL) grip over the Libyan city of Sirte, which was once considered the jihadist group’s largest stronghold outside Iraq and Syria, has been reduced to three neighborhoods, according to the Pentagon.

In this new Jamie Glazov Moment, Jamie discusses Why a Refugee Stabbed a Belgian Priest, wondering if the “asylum seeker” would have even bothered reading the Qur’an if he had a job in the first place.

The mass rape of hundreds of German women mostly by Muslim migrants last New Year’s was recently revealed to be far worse than originally acknowledged.

Contents: Migrants trapped in Serbia march toward border with Hungary; The refugee problem continues, despite EU-Turkey deal

LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – European stock markets fell on Thursday, weighed down by a drop in the shares of major airlines after Lufthansa issued a profit warning. The pan-European STOXX 600 index and the similar FTSEurofirst 300 were both

Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.

TEL AVIV – The European Union (EU) recognizes that anti-Zionism is a term often used to mask anti-Semitism, its newly appointed official tasked with combating the phenomenon said Tuesday.

Two thirds of migrants seeking Danish citizenship failed the new test, which is part of Danish Immigration Minister Inger Støjberg’s plan to make it harder to get a Danish passport. The new exams test migrants’ cultural knowledge of Denmark, along

Francis Ben-Hanni cried as he put his hands on the Western Wall, after finally living up to the promise he had made years earlier to one day make aliya.

“Clash of civilizations,” some say. Others call it the “failure of multiculturalism.” Either way, the cultural conflicts between some Muslims and non-Muslims worldwide continue to play out as Western countries struggle to reconcile their own cultures with the demands of a growing Muslim population.

In the wake of Brexit, Italy’s finance minister has offered a bleak evaluation of the state of his own country, suggesting that Italians are fed up with the status quo and the European Union (EU) itself may be crumbling.

Britain’s vote to leave the European Union has stunned political leaders, financial markets, and all those holding the theological view that EU-style governance is the world’s inevitable future. For those certain about global governance through international or “supranational” organizations, British withdrawal was unthinkable.

Daniel Kawczynski, a conservative member of the British Parliament, joined SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily Thursday morning to talk about the upcoming vote to exit from the European Union.

Iran’s Lebanese proxy Hezbollah is generating hundreds of millions from a “cocaine money laundering scheme” in Latin America that “provides a never-ending source of funding” for its terrorist operations, a former DEA operations chief recently told U.S. lawmakers.

The Independent writes: The threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear material is the highest since the end of the Cold War, with Isis actively trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, according to a leading international think-tank on proliferation.

(Reuters) More than 25 European and Asian-owned supertankers are shipping Iranian oil, data seen by Reuters shows, allowing Tehran to ramp up exports much faster than analysts had expected following the lifting of sanctions in January.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “On the Record,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reacted to the State Department issuing a warning advising Americans traveling in Europe to be aware of the threat of terrorism. Sessions blamed Europe’s influx of illegal immigrants

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), in a new propaganda message, is urging supporters to carry out violent attacks against civilian and military targets within the United States and Europe during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in early June.