Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair wowed the audience at a joint House-Senate Republican retreat with a speech on how the West must combat the threat of Islamic Extremism. Mr Blair told lawmakers that America should look to lead on
The wife of Djamel Beghal says her husband ‘is the victim’ and is being held hostage by the French authorities, despite his string of convictions relating to terrorism, the Daily Mail reports. Beghal, who was once one of al-Qaeda’s top
Parts of the Muslim world have responded with anger at the latest editor of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which featured a cartoon of Mohammed holding a sign saying ‘Je Suis Charlie’. Hundreds of protestors in Algeria gathered, chanting “I am
A Yorkshire family who claim £50,000 in benefits every year are complaining that they do not get enough in state handouts. The family, which spans three generations, receive thousands a month in benefits payments. But according to a Channel 5
A report by the National Audit Office has shown that millions of pounds from the government’s international aid budget was spent on last-minute projects in order to spend the multi-million pound budget. In 2013 the UK provided £11.5 billion in
Illegal immigrants gathering in Calais have an even bigger incentive to make the journey from Northern Africa to the UK now that a new immigration centre complete with Michelin-starred chef has opened. The Jules Ferry centre, a 12 acre site
Religious conservatives in Pakistan have criticised the new wife of opposition leader and former cricket player Imran Khan after footage emerged of her cooking and selling pork sausages, the Times reports. Reham Kahn, a Muslim who worked as a television
A 17-year-old was killed after a fight broke out because an Asian boy thought he was mocking his ethnicity by copying dance moves from the chart topping track ‘Gangnam Style’, a court has heard. Jordan Brennan started doing the distinctive
The United States will send 400 troops to train ‘moderate’ Syrian rebels this spring as part of its campaign against IS militants in the region. Pentagon spokesman Maj James Brindle confirmed the proposed deployment, according to An Nahar in Lebanon.
Professionals have slammed teachers who have been reporting children as young as five for being racist, saying that making children frightened to ask questions is unhealthy. The comments come after parent Hayley White was summoned to her seven-year-old son’s primary
A newsagent in a sleepy village in Gloucestershire, UK has already sold out of copies of Charlie Hebdo, despite the the satirical magazine not yet officially being on sale. Mrs Aghera, who owns Forge newsagents in Charlton Kinghas, says she
A government minister has said that young boys should be encouraged to play with dolls to get them “to consider caring as a profession” when they are older. Equalities Minister Jo Swinson, who has a 12 month old son, said
Channel 4 executives will be forced to give more leading roles in TV programmes to women and ethnic minorities or face losing their bonuses. A new Diversity Charter launched by the broadcaster includes a pledge that a fifth of all
French police are looking for at least one confirmed accomplice of the Islamic terrorist who murdered four people in a kosher supermarket last Friday after security officials concluded that Amedy Coulibaly was working with at least one other. They are
A senior French police chief has committed suicide only hours after meeting with the families of the Charlie Hebdo victims. Helric Fredou, 45, who was the deputy director of the regional police in Limoges, shot himself in the head with
More than 200 small firms have already stopped trading in the first two weeks of the new year thanks to new VAT rules imposed by the European Union. The companies say they have been forced to abandon trading because the
A Lebanese prison building is now the command base for terrorists in Lebanon with the latest suicide bomb attack orchestrated from prisoners’ bunk beds. According to local newspaper An-Nahar, Lebanese forces transferred detainees inside the notorious Roumieh prison Monday amid
Following the horrific attack in Paris where a Muslim extremist held up a Kosher supermarket, British police are set to step up security in Jewish areas, a community spokesman has reported. The Community Security Trust (CST) which provides security advice
The British Military has had to ask for US assistance to help track a suspected Russian submarine off the coast of Scotland after the Coalition government scrapped the RAF’s Nimrod surveillance aircraft in 2010. Two US Navy aircraft were drafted
As much as £3.1billion of funding for Britain’s largest charities comes directly from the public; nearly a quarter of their total income. In a report into the funding and transparency of the country’s third sector carried out by the Centre
Hate preacher Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life imprisonment by a judge in America after being found guilty of 11 charges of terrorism and kidnapping. The former Imam of Finsbury Park Mosque, who was extradited to the US to
French police are searching for the ‘wife’ of one of the Paris gunmen who killed a police woman and four hostages in a kosher bakery. Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, considered herself the wife of radicalised Muslim Amedy Coulibaly after a religious
A Somerset town has been victim to a rogue criminal believed to be behind a fifth of all crimes recorded including criminal damage and arson. The culprit, however, cannot be named because he is only an eleven-year-old boy, who was
A lecturer at an Irish university has said he would consider legal action if a member of the country’s media published or retweeted a cartoon of Mohammed. Dr Ali Selim, who teaches at Trinity University and is a member of
A hospital which was privatised by Labour is facing unsustainable financial problems, the management company have said. Circle, the private healthcare provider which manages Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, will pull out of its service contract having told investors it was
The two brothers accused of the Paris Massacre were already flagged as terrorists and placed on a U.S no-fly list – and the pair both have links to hate cleric and former Imam of Finsbury Park mosque in North London
The Head of MI5 has warned of a Paris style atrocity by Islamic terrorist groups taking place in Britain. Speaking at the Royal United Services Institute, Andrew Parker, the Director General of the Security Services, said extremists were “trying to
A porn star from Lebanon has received death threats after wearing a hijab in an adult film. Mia Khalifa, who was born in Beirut, Lebanon, is featured in the video with another porn actress and a male co star on
A Welsh MP has called for hairdressers to be officially regulated, to avoid “unscrupulous” and “incompetent” traders. Nia Griffith, Labour MP for Llanelli, raised the issue in a debate in Parliament on Wednesday, saying she was “quite shocked” hairdressers do
David Cameron was left red-faced after German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out “full on treaty change” in her meeting in Westminster yesterday. The German Chancellor agreed with Mr Cameron that there exists a need to stop the British benefits system
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been accused of attempted to silence staff in the Scottish NHS in order to distance themselves from the chaos surrounding emergency health provision. In an email seen by the Telegraph, a member of staff
Calls from David Cameron’s own backbenchers to strengthen his threat for Britain to leave the EU have been called ‘a victory for UKIP’. Ahead of his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at Downing Street, where the pair were due
Far left wing campaign group Hope Not Hate has performed an abrupt u-turn on their views over the content of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following the tragic deaths of twelve people yesterday including the well known editor and its
There has been an explosion at a restaurant in Villefranche-Sur-Saone, near Lyon, where there have been reports of a ‘non accidental’ explosion at a kebab restaurant. The town’s Deputy Mayor Bernard Perrut says: “It is apparently linked to the dramatic
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair could face war crimes charges as a result of the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War, the House of Lords has been told. The possibility was mentioned during a debate on the investigation into Britain’s
The Head of the European Parliament’s Press Service has tweeted that the shooting of staff at the satirical Charlie Hebdo magazine might not have been committed by Muslims. Marjory Van Den Broeke took to her twitter account to say that
A French author who penned a dystopian novel about a Muslim candidate winning the 2022 French Presidential Elections has been forced to defend his work on the same day Islamist extremist gunmen targeted magazine Charlie Hebdo. Michel Houellebecq’s work entitled
The mayor of a town in Nottinghamshire has been told to resign after he spent most of the past six months working in Saudi Arabia. The Liberal Democrat Mayor of Stapleford, Kevin Thomas, has attended only 15 events since he
David Cameron’s plans to cap the number of migrants from the EU coming to Britain were dropped from a key speech after protests by Angela Merkel, Government sources say. The German Chancellor, who is meeting with the Prime Minister in
Spanish police have arrested two former members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) as part of an investigation into money laundering and tobacco smuggling, as the crack down on tobacco products makes the crime more lucrative. Donna Maguire and Leonard
