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A Somali migrant and Dutch national living in the UK discussed killing Her Majesty The Queen with a fellow Islamic State jihadist supporter, a court has heard. Aweys Shikhey also allegedly fanaticised about shooting Jewish people near his home in London and attacking Tottenham Hotspur football club with Kenya-based Somalian Abdirahman Idrissa Hassan in conversations dating back to May 31st, 2016.

(Nigel Farage at: 17)...It's that man Julian Assange again, the long running saga. The man who has been in the Ecuadorian Embassy now for over five years. Well, his case was once again at Westminster Magistrates Court..... (Nigel Farage at 2:20)...But its the American dimension of this that I still find a bit of a mystery. Was there any hint or any clue today of any kind from District Judge Emma Arbuthnot as to whether or not the Americans have an extradition warrant out for him or not?........

F-16 jet was shot down on Saturday over northern Israel, prompting retaliation Israeli forces launched a series of bombardments against bases in Syria But Benjamin Netanyahu backed down after a call from Putin, it is reported Putin warned him against escalating the conflict in the region after Russia has spent years propping up the Assad regime Vladimir Putin warned Benjamin Netanyahu to back off from military strikes in Syria after an Israeli warplane was shot down in the region on Saturday. The Russian President told Netanyahu in a phone call on Saturday evening to avoid a course of action that...

<p>LONDON (AFP) - Scandal-hit British charity Oxfam was reeling Tuesday after fresh claims of sexual assault and rape, this time between aid workers in South Sudan.</p> <p>Helen Evans, former global head of safeguarding, also warned of assaults on children volunteering in Oxfam's hundreds of high-street charity shops in Britain.</p>

Don’t worry too much about this story. I’m sure Barack Obama would have waited for Japan's apology for Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death March, the treatment of American POWs … The cable indicates the Japanese government was then effectively discouraging Obama from visiting Hiroshima despite growing expectations over it following his call for a world free from nuclear weapons in a speech in Prague in April 2009.The cable, dated Sept. 3, 2009, and sent to U.S. State Secretary Hillary Clinton, reported Japan’s then Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka telling Ambassador John Roos on Aug. 28 that...

WASHINGTON—The Hellenic American Leadership Council (HALC) and the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) have launched a national advocacy campaign encouraging U.S. Senators to block a planned sale of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters to Turkey’s increasingly erratic and anti-American Erdogan regime. The ANCA and Hellenic American Leadership Council have joined forces to launch a grassroots campaign to block the impending F-35 sale to Turkey (Graphic: ANCA) This joint Hellenic-Armenian American initiative – the most recent in a series of ANCA-HALC advocacy campaigns – warns Senators against the dangers of providing Erdogan with advanced weapons that he may turn against our...

Ken Sturdy has had a lot of memorable moments in his 97 years and now he’s got another one to add to the list. It started when the Calgary Second World War veteran got a phone call offering a surprise invitation. “They said, ‘Can you travel to California, Ken?’ And immediately, of course, I said, ‘Yes,’” Sturdy said. He’d been asked to attend the annual Movies for Grownups awards ceremony in Beverly Hills, put on by the American Association for Retired Persons. “This wasn’t the Oscars,” Sturdy said. “It was something very similar.” He’d been invited because of his connection...

A rapist has been jailed for 11 years after he held a sharp piece of wood to a teenager’s throat as he attacked her. Ahmed Abdoule, 33, who is Somalian, told her she couldn’t be a virgin ‘because you are white’, adding ‘my country would love you’ following the attack. Ex-Royal Mail executive who tried to meet 14-year-old for sex caught by paedophile hunter His victim ‘cried and pleaded’ with him to let her go throughout the attack, Hull Crown Court was told. She knew Abdoule before the attack in which he took her home and locked the door despite...

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet has crashed after being hit by Syrian air defences during an offensive in Syria, the Israeli military says. The two pilots parachuted to safety before the crash in northern Israel. It is believed to be the first time Israel has lost a jet in the Syrian conflict. The plane was hit during air strikes in response to an Iranian drone launch into Israeli territory, Israel says. The drone was shot down. Israel later launched further strikes in Syria. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) say they hit aerial defence batteries and Iranian military sites in the...

One pilot in serious condition * Israel attacks Syrian, Iranian targets in fresh strike * Rocket sirens sound throughout northern Israel An Israeli F-16 was downed Saturday morning after Israel intercepted an Iranian drone launched from Syria into Israeli territory. According to the Israeli army, Syrian anti-aircraft missiles targeted the jet after Israel responded to the infiltration of the drone with a strike in Syria. The two F-16 pilots ejected as the plane went down in northern Israel. The pilots were taken to the hospital in stable condition. One of the pilots is in serious condition. Following the downing of...

Stunning whale sharks, cute sea lions and poor starving polar bears. But there might be another reason why 14 million people tuned in to watch the latest series of Blue Planet. And it might surprise you. Watching nature documentaries is as good for our wellbeing as meditation, scientists have found. Netflix and (actually) chill Committing to a period of meditation has no greater impact on your mood than tuning to a nature documentary, new research published in the journal Scientific Reports suggests. Both activities have positive impacts, but the benefits of meditation are more limited than previously thought, suggest scientists...

...Just as the dossier’s credibility began to wane—none of the allegations regarding Trump have been verified—a New York Times article from Dec. 30, 2017 corrected the record to show that the FBI’s inquiry into the Trump team’s possible ties to Russia in fact had nothing to do with the Steele dossier, or Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, as the paper had been reporting for the past year. No, it began after a meeting between Papadopoulos and the Australian ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer, in a London bar, back in May 2016. At that meeting, Papadopoulos, who, according to...

Donald Trump tweeted that Britain's National Health Service is "broke and not working." All too true: expenses have forced 40% of walk-in health centers to close, all elective surgery in January to be cancelled, and primary care has been decimated, it's not surprising that problems have surfaced. It is just as predictable that the usual call for "more money" echoes around the UK. All this is the result of economic laws that have been completely ignored since the days of Aneurin Bevan, the father of the UK NHS. The first is the Law of Rationing. In short, "Everything is...

The Open Championship celebrated its 146th edition last summer at Royal Birkdale. The rotation of 10 different courses has been mostly the same for the last few decades, but a recent report noted that the event might not make it 146 more tournaments with the current venues. According to the BBC, which reviewed a report by the Climate Coalition, various courses on the coasts of the UK are in peril because of climate change and a rising North Sea. To its credit, the R&A is taking this future seriously. "It [climate change] is certainly becoming a factor" Steve Isaac, Director...

(Nigel Farage at 1:17).....the debate about foreign, overseas influence in Western democracies is a big one. Now I have said from the start that I believe and please tell me that I'm wrong that I believe that Russian interference actually is almost negligible. Its been dreged up as an excuse.....' But I have felt for some time, in fact I've felt for the last six or seven years that there was one major global influence and by the way I'm not infering for a moment anything illegal has been done here but I'm talking one massive attempt by a very...

Every rape and serious sexual assault case in the country is under review following the collapse of a number of high-profile trials in recent weeks, the Crown Prosecution Service has admitted. Last night Alison Saunders, the director of public prosecutions, revealed that that the review would involve every force in the country in an attempt to improve public confidence in the justice system. It comes after four rape trials collapsed in the space of two months, when it was found that crucial evidence was disclosed just days before the cases were due to be heard in court. Most recently, Oxford...

George Soros, the billionaire known as the man who “broke the Bank of England”, is backing a campaign to overturn Brexit, the Telegraph can disclose. The investor is one of three senior figures linked to the Remain-supporting campaign group Best for Britain who plan to launch a nationwide advertising campaign this month, which they hope will lead to a second referendum to keep Britain in the EU. The campaign is trying to recruit major Tory donors in an attempt to undermine Theresa May.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom (FCO) has promoted the wearing of the Islamic veil amongst its London staff, using the February 1st occasion of “World Hijab Day” to promote the head covering and even issue “free scarves” to those who chose to try it.The department of the British government also promoted the idea of “liberation” when wearing the veil that Muslim women across the world have shunned as an antiquated, oppressive, religious tool. The FCO — Britain’s equivalent of the U.S. Department of State — issued invites to its staff ahead of the event, stating: Would...

Theresa May’s government has admitted that “a significant portion” of the more than 400 Islamic State fighters who have returned to Britain are at large, unpunished, having been deemed “no longer of national security concern”. The admission came in response to a question in the House of Commons by Labour MP John Woodcock, who demanded to know why the Government is refusing to release figures on the number of returned jihadists being prosecuted, despite having previously provided them. “Are more than 400 of those returning individuals in jail or going through the court system? We simply do not know, because...

In the UK, “there has yet to be a single conviction for FGM despite tens of thousands of recorded cases since it was criminalised in 1985.”The reason for that is abundantly clear: Muslims are the primary practitioners of female genital mutilation, and the UK police are afraid of appearing “Islamophobic,” just as in Rotherham, Muslim rape gangs preyed on over 1,400 non-Muslim girls while authorities did nothing for fear of appearing “racist.”Instead of learning their lesson and enforcing the law against FGM, the Surrey Police just issued a rather plaintive call for children to “find your voice” and report FGM...