The U.S. government is already threatening to retaliate: On Wednesday, President Trump ordered a probe of the French tax. It’s a sign that another trade war like the one between the U.S. and China could be stirring – except that it’s with one of America’s allies, and in this case, it’s U.S. companies that are seen as the tax dodges. The measure was approved by France’s Senate on Thursday.... 

Europe now has to be honest with itself – with enemies in its midst, it can either sacrifice some of the legal rights it holds so dear, or tolerate the deaths of innocents as a price worth paying for keeping its principles. The decision to pay €500 to Salah Abdeslam, the last man alive of the Paris attackers who killed 131 people in November 2015, as compensation for illegal 24/7 surveillance... 

Former president Bill Clinton is not the only prominent Democrat likely to be found in billionaire child molester Jeffrey Epstein’s “little black book of clients,” according to a well-placed D.C. columnist, who warns the trial of Epstein is a “house-on-fire crisis” for the Democrat Party. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter warned that some favorite Democratic figures may be implicated... 

Israel’s minister of education said in a cabinet meeting this month that the rate of marriage between US Jews and non-Jews is like a “second Holocaust,” a report said Tuesday. Rafi Peretz made the statement in the July 1 cabinet meeting that was attended by Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Axios reported. Peretz was responding to a discussion by officials in the meeting about the growing... 

Merkel is just allergic to the German anthem and the demons inside her become angry when they hear the song. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was seen visibly shaking during another high-profile diplomatic meeting, this time as she welcomed Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne as the countries’ anthems played. Merkel has repeatedly played down concerns over her health in recent weeks following high-profile... 

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter says that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had a “state sponsor” backing him and that his operation was a way to blackmail powerful men. During an appearance on 790 KABC, Coulter suggested that Epstein is merely the front man for a far more powerful network. “Epstein according to both the girls accounts, he wanted them to have sex with powerful men, come back... 

Surprising news: Russian government commented on British EDL founder Tommy Robinson facing jail time. “The oppression of citizens due to their opinions is not acceptable in any state”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted. Exclusively for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Russian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs said: In any democratic state — which the UK authorities consider their country to be... 

US President Donald Trump’s erratic policies regarding Iran could lead to war at the slightest provocation, the UK’s American envoy has been warning his London superiors in internal memos leaked to media. Troves of diplomatic cables sent to London by British Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch, which contain stinging remarks about US President Donald Trump’s temperament and policies, were leaked... 

Conservatives are returning to power in Greece after crushing the leftist ruling party, which failed in its pledge to fight austerity. Now New Democracy offers more jobs and less taxes for austerity-weary Greeks. The party of opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has claimed 39.74 percent of the vote, with Syriza trailing on 31.5 percent, the Interior Ministry said, after counting nearly 45 percent... 

Concerns for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s health grow once more as she was filmed struggling to keep her composure and visibly shaking during an official ceremony for the second time this month, RT.com writes. The incident happened during the formal appointing of the new justice minister in Berlin’s Bellevue Palace on Thursday morning. The chancellor began shaking while standing next to... 

2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden threatened his Democrat rivals on Friday, warning that he may release information about their “pasts” to bring his numbers back up. During a CNN interview, Biden hinted he’s prepared to do what he has to do to win the Democratic nomination, but said he doesn’t want to “go there.” “I mean, I get all this information about other people’s pasts,... 

A local police station in the department of Eure in northern France was attacked by a group of 15 young hooded muslims who launched projectiles and fireworks while shouting the two words ‘Allahu Akbar’. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the attack happened around 2 AM last Friday at the Val-de-Reuil-Louviers police station with the 15 hooded ‘youths’ firing and hurling projectiles... 

Russia-Japan ties have long been strained as a peace treaty at the end of World War II was never signed because of Japanese claims to the Kuril islands. This is great news and we fully agree with mr. Putin here. There was a war, Russia won the war fair and square and lost millions of lives in the war, they captured the islands and now Japan wants them back. Well tell you what, then Russia wants all... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law suspending the Cold War-era INF Treaty. Putin announced in February that he would halt participation in the treaty after Washington’s abrupt decision to pull out of the agreement. The Trump administration announced last October that the US would pull out of the treaty which has been a cornerstone of European security since its signing in 1987.... 

While the UK is struggling to cope with Brexit, a survey has raised concerns about the well-being of those who are to steer it out of the political chaos. It revealed that depression, distress and other conditions are more likely to hit members of the House of Commons than people with other jobs, including high-level ones. Conservative MP and practicing psychiatrist of the National Health Service...