China opposes military action in Syria and instead urges diplomacy to solve the political crisis, according to a foreign ministry response in the wake of US-led airstrikes. US, UK and French jets launched airstrikes on Syria early Saturday after accusations that forces commanded by President Bashar Assad carried out a chemical attack in Douma last week. The Syrian government has denied using such... 

Perhaps the most surprising news surrounding the US, British and French strike on Syria Saturday morning was the report that the country’s Air Defense Force managed to shoot down just shy of 70% of the Western cruise missiles launched. Sputnik looks at how the Syrians managed to do it. The Western attack, executed this morning at 4:00 am Syrian time on April 14, saw US Navy warships in the Red... 

An angrily worded new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states the President Donald Trump has just issued his first overt war threat against the Russian Federation by his warning “Get ready Russia, missiles will be coming at Syria, nice and new and ‘smart’!”—and to which Moscow quickly responded to by asking Trump “Are ‘smart’ missiles an attempt to destroy... 

Three off-duty French soldiers were arrested after helping retrieve a woman’s stolen phone from a youth in Paris. The robbery occurred early Sunday morning at the Saint-Amboise metro station; the three soldiers pursued the thief in a brief chase that ended with a fight. All members involved – the soldiers aged between 21 and 24, and the teenage thief who had no identification papers or address... 

In an interview with the magazine Wired, French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined France’s AI strategy, having also addressed privacy issues and the problems associated with Internet giants such as Facebook and Google. According to Macron, Facebook and Google are welcome in France, they create jobs and are “part of our ecosystem,” but at some point, those companies became “too big.” “Not... 

Yesterday we reported that a 85-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed in her Paris apartment. Her murderer, a Muslim from North Africa, stabbed her, robbed her and then set her body aflame in what the media described as a virulent act of anti-Semitism. I’m not sure how a Semite can commit an act of anti-Semitism against another Semite, but anyway, Parisians have taken to the streets to mourn it.... 

The New York Times waited twelve paragraphs before informing their readers that the principal suspect behind the gruesome murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman last week in Paris is “of North African origin.” From The New York Times, “She Survived the Holocaust, to Die in a 2018 Hate Crime”: PARIS — An 85-year-old woman who as a child narrowly escaped France’s most notorious wartime roundup... 

The hostage-taker at the supermarket in southern France has claimed allegiance to Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS) AFP cited the prosecutor’s office as saying. A police operation is underway in the area. Policeman shot and possibly killed, in Carcassonne, and hostages taken in the nearby town of Trèbes, by a gunman pledging allegiance to ISIS. The man was shouting “Allahu Akbar” when... 

Italy has become the latest European country where a general election has brought about the rise of right-wing politicians. RT looks at a trend that’s growing across the EU. The European Union is moving to the right side of the political spectrum. While left-wing officials, analysts and media blame anything from Russian bots to uneducated voters, the trend has been becoming more pronounced as elections... 

The Europe of Nations and Freedom, a group of European Parliament members, is obliged to reimburse Europe’s parliament for expenses which include meals costing more than 400 euros per person and one hundred Christmas presents worth more than 100 euros each, according to AFP. Agence France Presse has seen a document drafted by the European Parliament’s budget control committee, which cited... 

Marine Le Pen, the former French presidential candidate and leader of the far-right Front National, finds herself entangled in a legal maelstrom, facing charges that could potentially lead to up to three years behind bars and a substantial fine of €75,000. The accusations stem from her posting a series of violent ISIS images on Twitter in 2015, raising questions about the limits of political expression... 

A meat-focused restaurant in the in Alpine city of Grenoble, southeast France, has been trashed by a mystery vandal, with the words “Vegan Terror” left scrawled across it, local media reports. The staff of the La Boucherie (The Butchery) restaurant in Grenoble woke up to an ugly sight on Monday morning, after the unknown saboteur went to work on the front of the building. Fourteen windows were... 

France’s first so-called sex doll brothel is operating in secret within the 14th Arrondissement of Paris – where clients can engage in virtual reality romps with silicone mannequins. The bohemian quarter of the city is home to cultural sights such as the Paris catacombs and the Vladimir Lenin Museum. But now a new agency, Xdolls, has opened an establishment in the area where people can get around... 

Someone, somewhere is playing the world’s smallest violin. Paris massacre terrorist Salah Abdeslam, the man who helped jihadists butcher hundreds of people, is now complaining about Islamophobia. Abdeslam is on trial for a shootout he had with Belgian police after the November 13, 2015 attack. He is not expected to stand trial for his role in the Paris massacre, during which 130 people were killed... 

As Europe is nearing total extinction possibly even within our lifetimes, Afghans and Africans are now killing eachother in our lands while French people are scared to leave homes in their own country. The mass brawls between African and Afghan migrants in the French port city of Calais Thursday have prompted residents to call on the government to step in, telling RT they have been living in fear...