Italy’s parliament has given final approval to a law criminalising illegal immigration and allowing citizens’ patrols to help the police keep order. The new measures have been strongly criticised by human rights groups and the Vatican. Illegal immigration will be punishable by a hefty fine and those who knowingly house illegal migrants will face up to three years in prison. The law also... 

Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone last night provoked outrage by praising the policies of Adolf Hitler in an extraordinary interview. The 78-year-old billionaire criticised modern politicians as ‘weak’ and praised the former Nazi leader’s ability to ‘get things done’. His comments provoked furious reaction from politicians and Jewish groups. Ecclestone suggested in an... 

Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That’s not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases. For years now, a major campaign organized by local residents... 

Tough new measures to fight illegal immigration and crime became law in Italy Thursday after the Senate gave the green light to a bill contested by the center-left opposition and the traitorous Jewish-led Catholic Church. The law makes illegal immigration a crime punishable with a fine of up to 10,000 euros ($14,000) and raises to six months the amount of time that illegal migrants can be detained... 

Women in Malmö have been given the right to bathe topless in the swimming pools of Sweden’s third largest city. The city’s sports and recreation committee voted on Wednesday against a motion entitled: “Women with two-piece swimsuits ought to wear a top piece”. The committee eventually settled on the wording that “everybody should wear bathing suits” at Malmö pools... 

The history of the economic crisis in Germany before the Second World War began with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. The WWI winners deprived the country of a part of its territories with three-quarters of iron ore reserves. German was supposed to pay $33 billion of reparations. Germany plunged into the chaos of inflation. One US dollar cost 4.2 trillion Deutsche Marks. People were... 

Possession of pornography is now a criminal offense in Ukraine, Lenta.ru reports, after Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed a law to that effect today. Human rights activists and members of the Ukrainian artistic community had asked the president to veto the law. The draft of the law was prepared by the Ukrainian government. It was passed by the Ukrainian parliament, the Supreme Rada,... 

France’s extreme-right National Front is poised to win its first town council in a decade after gaining ground in the north’s former mining heartlands of Pas de Calais, far from the party’s traditional southern base. The far-right party, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, has reached record popularity in Hénin-Beaumont, a depressed former coalmining town struggling with high unemployment,... 

The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night’s municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of... 

Bavaria’s science minister wants to publish a new scholarly edition of Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf” ahead of 2015, when the state’s exclusive rights to the work expire, daily Handelsblatt reported on Monday. “There is a danger that charlatans and neo-Nazis will usurp this infamous work when the copyright runs out,” Wolfgang Heubisch told the paper from Munich. “Which is why I believe... 

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Russia is losing its positions on the Indian arms market. Russia has lost a billion-dollar tender for the delivery of fuel aircraft to this country in spite of the fact that India is one of the key buyers of Russian arms. It was not the first time when Russia failed to sign contracts with India. Experts say that Russia may entirely lose the Indian market if it continues to offer outdated defense technology... 

A 35,000-year-old flute made of vulture bone found in a cave in southwestern Germany is the world’s oldest known musical instrument. The artifact suggests music may have been one advantage our ancestors had over their cousins, the now-extinct Neanderthals, according to a report published in the journal Nature. The five-holed flute, which is fully intact and made from a griffon vulture’s radius... 

This is the newspaper distributed by the Hungarian Police officers. “Given our current situation, anti-Semitism is not just our right, but it is the duty of every Hungarian homeland lover, and we must prepare for armed battle against the Jews.” This quote appeared in a newsletter published by an organization calling itself “The trade union of Hungarian police officers prepared for... 

Police are investigating whether marchers in a recent parade in Saxony-Anhalt broke the law by wearing Nazi-era SS and Wehrmacht uniforms. The incident has sparked outrage beyond the borders of the eastern German state. The state-funded parade last weekend through the town of Thale had over 4,000 participants representing different periods of the state’s history. Over 200,000 people came to watch...