The leader of France’s rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has asked French President Francois Hollande to suspend the visa-free Schengen Area in Europe and strip dual nationals of their French citizenship if they carry out “barbaric crimes.” “I expressed to the president the absolute necessity…to immediately suspend Schengen to be able to control our borders as an essential element... 

Hostages have been taken in a jewellery store in Montpellier, Southern France. The new incident is evolving shortly after hostages were freed in Paris and Charlie Hebdo suspects killed in Northern France. According to the media, two people are being held in a shop in the center of the city. The police have surrounded the area. There is no precise information yet about the siege. However, the media... 

A view of a house razed during a Ukrainian army strike in Stanitsa Luganskaya village, east Ukraine. Amnesty International has warned that the violence-scarred eastern Ukraine is sliding toward a humanitarian disaster as local residents struggle to get food as well as medicine. Denis Krivosheev, deputy director of Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, said on Thursday that the people in... 

Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Four people and one hostage-taker have been killed at a Jewish supermarket in Paris as security forces undertook a rescue operation, according to reports. A worker in Dammartin-en-Goele has been freed, and the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre killed. Several loud blasts were heard and smoke has been rising over the printworks in the industrial... 

A police officer has been shot dead and a city employee critically injured following the shooting on the outskirts of Paris, according to local media. The incident follows police raids after the attack on the satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris. One man opened fire at two police officers, seriously injuring one, near La porte de Chatillon, Montrouge commune, south of Paris, police confirmed.... 

A US Air Force C-5B heavy lift cargo aircraft is seen at RAF Mildenhall base northeast of London, home to tanker, reconnaissance and special operations aircraft. The Pentagon has announced a plan to close down 15 military bases in Europe due to shrinking budgets. The Pentagon said on Thursday it was ending operations at an air base in Britain along with 14 other sites in Europe and handing them back... 

German anti-immigrant groups have been quick to respond to the murderous Jihadist attacks in Paris saying they are proof of the significant threat posed by Islamists and the extent to which mainstream parties have tried to downplay the dangers. Pegida, or Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Western World, a right-wing populist group which has been gaining support in weekly demonstrations... 

The leader of France’s rightwing Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen, has announced she would hold a referendum to reintroduce the death penalty if she wins France’s 2017 presidential election. “I personally believe that the death penalty should exist in our legal arsenal,” Le Pen told television channel France 2. “I always said that I would offer French citizens the possibility to express... 

Twelve people, 10 journalists and two policemen, have been killed, and 10 others wounded in the shooting massacre at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo as Muslim hate crimes against native French are on the rise as never before. Three of the wounded are in critical condition. French President Francois Hollande arrived at the scene of the shooting, and will shortly hold an... 

Cologne Cathedral was plunged into darkness last night as the authorities switched off the power at famous landmarks to show their disapproval at anti-immigrant protests. Even with their traitorous chancellor who rules Germany with an iron fist declaring the PEGIDA anti-invasion demonstrations “racist”, Germans have continued to turn out in record numbers for the protests against the savage monsters... 

On Christmas eve, the Former Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, came out with an anti-Swedish rant saying that Sweden belongs to the immigrants who move there, not the Native Swedish. He also said that Sweden’s borders are fictional and the Native Swedish are “uninteresting”. “There is a choice of which country Sweden will be,” he told TV4. “Is this a land that is owned by those... 

The German government insists it wants Greece to stay in the eurozone and isn’t drafting any contingency plans in case of ‘Grexit’. This shows Germany is adamant about keeping Greece under the domination of the ‘troika’, journalist Ernst Wolff told RT. “The goal of the German government, the European Union and even the government in Athens itself is to keep Greece in the euro zone,”... 

The picture shows Opel’s production plant in Ruesselsheim, Germany. A new poll shows German firms doing business in Russia are suffering from the Western sanctions against Moscow, with hundreds of the companies suspending or cancelling projects. The survey published on Friday by the German-Russian Chamber of Commerce showed 58 percent of the German firms polled said they had been affected by... 

New Year’s Eve in France was a tale of two cities: In the rich areas a vast police presence presided over joyous public parties, but in the poor suburbs an appalling 940 cars were set on fire nationwide by Muslim immigrants. Such violent and depressing scenes are what many impoverished French woke up to on January first, as they have for over two decades. Perhaps most shocking is that the nation’s... 

The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (FE) has stated its readiness to launch cyberattacks against hostile states and organizations, according to Politiken daily. Over the next 2 years some $75 million will be invested in an “offensive” cyber division. By 2017 Denmark will pour some 465 million kroner ($75 million) into developing an offensive cyber-attack capability, according to the report....