According to Swedish police, the number of incidents involving explosives and bombs between January to July of 2019 has risen 45 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Newly released police statistics have revealed that Sweden experienced a total of 83 explosive incidents between January to July of 2018, a number which rose to 120 this year, Dagens Nyheter reports. Different groups in Sweden... 

Many animals including mammals eat members of their own species, so perhaps in the future humans will “succumb to reason” and rethink our “taboo” against eating human flesh, Newsweek proposes in an article Wednesday. There is “nothing necessarily unethical or unreasonable” about eating human flesh, declare psychologists Jared Piazza and Neil McLatchie of Lancaster University, and even... 

Millionaire and convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly provided with more than one thousand underage girls — some as young as 12 — by a French modeling agency, new reports reveal. One of Epstein’s partners, Jean-Luc Bruno, was suspected of procuring minors for his sexual gratification. Bruno opened an international modeling agency called MC2 through which he managed to collect... 

Current Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ended his governing alliance with the Five Star Party (MS5) in the hope of forcing a new election which would likely propel him to the Premiership—but his enemies are working furiously behind closed doors to prevent this from happening, and might succeed. MS5 leader and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned on Tuesday... 

This week, the trial of a failed 27-year-old African asylum seeker charged with raping a nine-year-old girl began in a German court. According to Bild, Seydou N., originally from Niger, West Africa stands accused of savagely raping a nine-year-old in the Elbwiesen nature reserve in Dessau-Roßlau earlier this year. Court prosecutor Julia Legner has said, “the girl was there in the morning with her... 

YouTube has disabled 210 channels for posting content related to the Hong Kong protests “in a coordinated manner,” following in the footsteps of Facebook and Twitter in restricting its arbitrary censorship to pro-China accounts. “Channels in this network behaved in a coordinated manner while uploading videos related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong,” Google threat analyst Shane Huntley... 

Black South African “Equality Court” judge Phineas Mojapelo has ruled that the further “gratuitous” public display of the old South African flag constitutes “hate speech” in that country, and that anyone saying that displaying it will be prosecuted—even if it is inside their own private house. Ruling in a case brought by the “Nelson Mandela Foundation” and the “Human Rights Commission”—both... 

The IDF has struck multiple targets in the Gaza Strip after at least one rocket coming from the enclave landed in an open field in southern Israel. Israeli warplanes launched several raids on Gaza City and its surroundings shortly after midnight on Thursday, Wafa reports. At least one house destroyed in the raid but no casualties have been reported thus far. The IDF confirmed the strikes, noting that... 

Trump accused Denmark’s prime minister of making a “nasty and inappropriate” statement by refusing to even discuss his desire to purchase Greenland, a self-governing Danish territory. President Trump continued to distract the public from volatile markets, slowing economic growth and the burgeoning trade war on Wednesday by defending his decision to postpone a state visit to Denmark, the Hill... 

President Donald Trump compared himself to the messiah Wednesday, telling a gaggle of reporters at the White House that he is the “chosen one” to take on China. Trump said that the trade war with China chose him, not the other way around. The president has faced criticism for his tariffs, with many economists warning of a recession as a result of Trump’s trade policy. So Donald Trump is now... 

Today you are rich, glamorous, famous, happy and ignorant, tomorrow you’re just a bum. Let this be a lesson to all the young ladies seeking carnal pleasure and money out there. Had she had a family, children, God and honor, she would have lived a normal life now. This is what you get when you live in the moment and care for nothing. What did she think that she would be able to shoot porno all... 

The media has willfully misinterpreted Donald Trump’s words to portray the most pro-Israel US president in history as an anti-Semite. It makes more sense to chide him for sacrificing US interests to please Benjamin Netanyahu. Here is the full Trump quote from Tuesday, in which he rejected Democrat Bernie Sanders’ idea that Israel should stop accepting American aid, after its reluctance to let... 

A homeless person dies on average every 19 hours in the UK, according to newly released figures. Data reveals at least 235 people affected by homelessness have died over the last six months, ranging from the ages of 16 to 104 years old. The same figures from last year showed 449 deaths in 12 months – on average one every 20 hours – indicating that the frequency at which homeless people are dying... 

Modern censorship is more dangerous than open totalitarianism, it being concealed and incorporated in our daily routine, says Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek, commenting on the insider leak detailing Google’s news blacklist. The intellectual told RT he’s not advocating for online anarchy, comparing it to snuff movies in hardcore pornography – some regulation should be in place to block harmful... 

On Wednesday, an Uzbek migrant was arrested by authorities Östersund, Sweden on the suspicion that he was about to commit a terrorist act. At one point, the Uzbek migrant was held up as a shining example of migrant integration by a local Swedish newspaper, according to Nyheter Idag. The man, who’s in his thirties, was reported to have been driving close to the Stortorget square in Östersund when...