An architecture expert has called for Notre Dame’s fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret as an apology to Algerian Muslims killed by French police. Writing in Domus, Tom Wilkinson, history editor of the Architectural Review, argues that the rebuild is an opportunity to communicate a message of political correctness. “I can’t say I ever thought it the most beautiful cathedral in... 

Despite a defense budget bigger than the next 7 countries combined, the US says Russia is pulling ahead in a new arms race, and the Pentagon has no choice but to rely on its nuclear deterrent. But how sincere are they being? “It takes two to race,” David Trachtenberg, the US deputy undersecretary of defense, said this week, adding that America is “not interested in matching the Russians system... 

A list recently released by the Centre for Violent Extremism (CVE) disclosed that 41 of Sweden’s 290 municipalities are set to be forced to welcome back scores of returning ISIS members. According to the Swedish broadcasting company SVT, the Centre for Violent Extremism invited officials from the 41 municipalities to an event which aims to teach them about returning terrorists in order to “provide... 

France’s Marine Le Pen, one of the leading right-wing voices in the European Union, is throwing her political weight behind Italian hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to set up a major populist group in the EU legislature after next month’s elections. The head of France’s National Rally party said that “we have mandated Matteo Salvini… to try to build this very big group of the Defense... 

Saudi Arabia executed 37 people, most of them Shiites — or people who practice Shia Islam — and publicly pinned one of the bodies and its severed head to a pole for terrorism-related crimes on Tuesday. Ratified by Saudi Arabian King Salman, the executions took place across the country and were in accordance with Islamic Law, according to the country’s Interior Ministry who used language that... 

Kim Jong-un’s armored train has reached Vladivostok, a city in Russia’s Far East, which will host the first-ever meeting between Kim and President Vladimir Putin. The summit, which is scheduled for Thursday, will be hosted by the Far Eastern Federal University at its new campus on Russky Island, which is across the bridge from Vladivostok. The program of the visit has largely been kept secret,... 

President Kushner announced Tuesday he’ll be presenting his “humanitarian” immigration plan to White House aide Donald Trump for looking over in the coming days. No doubt supporters of former President Donald Trump will be giddy to see all the wonders President Kushner has in store for our country’s immigration laws after his Democrat-approved criminal justice reform and all his other greatest... 

Macron’s initial promise to restore the magnificent cathedral to its former glory has been shoved aside. Now he says it will be rebuilt “consistent with our modern, diverse nation”, and at the same time the French Government has announced an international competition to redesign the Notre Dame spire. After the announcement designers haven’t missed the opportunity to respond with their ideas,... 

The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. This new database will be known as the Common Identity Repository (CIR) and is set to unify records on over 350 million people. Per its design, CIR will aggregate both identity records (names,... 

La Dauphine (The Dolphin) has reported that a fire of unknown origin occurs in a church in Eyguières. Around 16:30, this Sunday, a fire broke out in a church in the center of the village of Eyguières, in the north of the Bouches-du-Rhone confirmed a source at the departmental service fire and rescue Bouches-du-Rhône. The fire damaged furniture without doing any injury. About 25 firefighters have... 

Mexico shows USA who is boss! Washington Examiner just reported that Mexican soldiers crossed over into American territory and arrested American troops at gunpoint over conducting border support operations. This must be the biggest humiliation America has suffered in the last 10 years or so and its kind of shocking that this has happened under Donald Trump was supposed to be such a great patriot and... 

Democratic 2020 hopeful Bernie Sanders called the government of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu “racist” during a CNN town hall. Another blue candidate, Beto O’Rourke, used similar wording to blast the Israeli leader. Speaking on Monday, the popular Vermont senator was asked to comment on how his long-standing criticism of Netanyahu – who this month won a highly contested election and secured... 

Following the slaughter of nearly 300 people, many of them Christians, by Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka, the mainstream media is worried about ‘right-wing anger’ and “violence against Muslims”. Yes, really. The Washington Post published a story entitled Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West. The article downplays the notion of Christianity... 

Some 1,500 foreign terrorists, who took part in combat actions in the Middle East, are in Europe now, Director of Russia’s Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov told a conference on countering international terrorism. “Some 1,500 out of 5,000 terrorists have arrived in the European Union from the Middle East, according to experts’ estimates. A significant number of them are gunmen, who... 

The French unit will be deployed in Estonia, just 140 kilometres away from Russia. The deployment is Paris’ contribution to the increased NATO presence in the Baltic States and Poland. Russia has long voiced alarm over the alliance’s activities near its borders. A unit of 300 soldiers from the French Army and the Foreign Legion is expected to arrive in the Estonian town of Tapa, just 140 kilometres...