A novel virus has surfaced, causing illness in a 20-year-old man from Peru. The unidentified patient sought medical attention after experiencing symptoms resembling those of malaria and dengue, including fever, chills, muscle and joint pain. While the outcome of the man’s illness remains unclear, scientists who identified the pathogen from a blood sample have raised concerns about its potential... 

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has come under fire for saying in a recent speech given in Belgium that “Europe is a garden” while the outside world is a “jungle”. There are growing calls for him to retract the analogy and to issue an apology over what many are saying was a speech tinged with racist and imperialistic overtones. He was addressing an audience of his own diplomatic corps. “Europe... 

Argentina’s president, Alberto Fernández, has triggered a Twitter storm and a regional race debate with misjudged comments to visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain that sought to play up the South American country’s ties with Europe. “The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships. And they were ships that came from Europe,”... 

Baltimore police have confirmed they’re probing a brutal racist attack on a white man hit in the head with a brick. The attacker appeared to have accomplices filming and laughing. However, no victim has come forward, local media report. The victim was hit in the head in the Sharp-Leadenhall neighborhood of south Baltimore on Sunday evening, police told local media, affirming the content of a disturbing... 

A Dutch logistics firm has said they will stop making deliveries to the UK because of the risk of attack by migrants and asylum seekers as trucks pass through Calais. Reining Transport, which has around 500 drivers and annual revenues of €55 million, has stopped trips via Calais to the UK from September due to the violent attacks. “It’s no longer possible,” said Gerrit Hes, the firms managing... 

Hundreds of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in the heart of Belgium’s capital, sparking concerns that a new so-called Calais ‘Jungle’ might take root. With authorities taking a tough stance, a local charity is highlighting their daily difficulties. Maximilien Park, close to Brussels’ Gare du Nord railway station, and just some 15 minutes away from the European Commission building, has... 

Video footage shows a burning tree lying across a motorway as men waving clubs at truck drivers. Gangs of migrants have once again started setting up burning road blocks in Calais to halt lorries heading to the UK so they can climb aboard and hitch a ride. After France dismantled the Jungle camp in the northern town last year it was hoped migrants would disperse across the country. Instead, they continue... 

The center-right mayor of the French port city of Calais faces a standoff with aid groups, after issuing an order forbidding the systematic distribution of food on the site of the so-called ‘Jungle’ refugee camp, which was demolished last October. “We have suffered too much,” said Natacha Bouchart, a member of the center-right Les Republicains, after approving the new restrictions on Thursday. Posters... 

Is this why women are so eager to import these Third World migrants? From The Independent: Volunteers in the Calais Jungle have been accused of sexually exploiting refugees and even child migrants. The Independent has discovered a serious row has broken out among some unpaid charity workers at the camp in northern France, with some believing forging sexual relationships with adult refugees is natural... 

Around 150 migrants, some armed with iron bars, have attempted to block or climb lorries traveling towards the Eurotunnel, as clashes with police continued into the night in chaotic scenes surrounding the Calais refugee ‘Jungle’ camp in France. Police were called to the area after refugees, enraged by an earlier eviction, attacked trucks with stones, debris, and iron bars. Officers used flash... 

French police have used teargas and water cannon on migrants during clashes in the infamous Jungle refugee camp in French port of Calais on Tuesday night. Tensions on previous nights led to dozens of injured officers. “Two hundred and fifty police officers, of which the majority were CRS [riot police], were mobilized Tuesday” to end the disturbances around the migrant camp, said Interior... 

A team of anthropologists found a mysterious burial in the jungle near the city of Kigali Rwanda (Central Africa). The remains belong to gigantic creatures that bear little resemblance to humans. Head of research group believes that they could be visitors from another planet who died as a result of a catastrophe. According to the scientists, they were buried at least 500 years ago. At first, researchers... 

Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed Somalia’s national security minister and at least 24 other people were killed in a suicide attack Thursday in western Somalia, and an extremist Islamic group with alleged links to al-Qaida claimed responsibility. President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed accused al-Qaida of being behind the bombing, which also killed a senior Somali diplomat. He did not offer any evidence, but...