Author: Roy Gutierrez

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday urged President Emmanuel Macron to hold a referendum on key issues such as immigration, suggesting that giving the French a direct vote might help break the political deadlock. Last week Macron appointed the centre-right Michel Barnier, a 73-year-old former foreign minister who acted as the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, as prime minister, seeking to move forward after June-July snap elections that resulted in a hung parliament. But analysts say the country is set for a period of instability, with Barnier’s hold on power seen as fragile and dependent on support from Le…

Pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane has introduced a bill that would have Bulgaria withdraw from the NATO military alliance the month the country celebrates its 20th anniversary of joining. NATO membership is detrimental to Bulgaria’s national security, the party argues, echoing the Kremlin’s main talking point, often spread through pro-Russian disinformation channels on social media. “NATO is the repressive apparatus of the USA, where the member states are anything but equal partners,” the argument for the bill reads. The party claims that the military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and the Palestinians, and Armenia and Azerbaijan are being fuelled and supported…

A fire that engulfed a house in east London and injured four people is being investigated as a possible antisemitic hate crime, the Metropolitan Police has said. A man in his 60s was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of starting the fire, which gutted a house on Newick Road in Hackney at around midday. Police said the suspect later shouted “threatening comments, some of which were allegedly antisemitic” when he was being arrested. The Metropolitan Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life, as well for making the allegedly antisemitic comments. Four people suffered non-life-threatening injuries as a result…

Following Hamas’ deadly terror campaign targeting Israel on October 7, it didn’t take long for officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its media platforms to glorify Hamas’ violence and join its antisemitic vitriol. This is not surprising given the financial and military assistance the Iranian regime has provided terror organizations Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) since the early 1990s. It is also not surprising that some figures, who are often labeled “reformist” or “moderate,” including former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, also echoed the regime’s talking points by praising Hamas’ attacks as “a great achievement for the…

SYDNEY — Thousands of demonstrators in New Zealand are protesting the new government’s policies towards indigenous Māori communities. The new center-right coalition government in Wellington plans to limit the use of Māori language, review affirmative action policies and reassess how the country’s founding document – the Treaty of Waitangi of 1840 – is interpreted in modern legislation. The treaty was a 19th-century agreement between the British monarchy and about 540 Māori rangatira, or chiefs. It pledged the protection of Māori land and established British law in New Zealand. The government wants to wind back policies that acknowledge Māori as New Zealand’s…

Trouble is brewing in the deep-blue state of Maryland, where Democratic state senators are discovering that—gasp—an “immigrant advocacy” group they have coddled for decades is really full of Hamas supporters who compare Palestinian terrorists to the experience of Hispanics in the Old Line State. The group is CASA de Maryland. State lawmakers have been forcing weary taxpayers to underwrite this far-left group since it was first incorporated in Maryland’s radical chic neighborhood of Takoma Park in 1985. The Washington Post reported as far back as 2011 that “nearly half of CASA’s $6 million budget comes from local, state, and federal appropriations.” A reason…

Former Attorney General Bill Barr spoke about free expression, his tenure as attorney general under the Trump administration, and the January 6 attack on the Capitol, during an Institute of Politics (IOP) speaker series event at Ida Noyes Hall on October 26. The event was moderated by CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent and UChicago Law graduate Jan Crawford. Barr served as the United States attorney general for President George H. W. Bush’s administration from 1991 to 1993 and again for President Donald Trump’s administration from 2019 to 2020. “The most clear and present danger to democracy is the undermining of…

Various Serbian opposition parties will join together at the 17 December elections following cooperation in the parliament and the protest organisation ‘Serbia against violence’. The opposition parties uniting include the Party of Freedom and Justice, the People’s Movement of Serbia, the Green-Left Front / Not drowning Belgrade, Heart, the Ecological Uprising, the Democratic Party, the Movement of Free Citizens, and the Party Together. The holders of the list in the republican elections will be Miroslav Aleksić and Marinika Tepić, while the first on the list will be Radomir Lazović. In the Belgrade elections, the candidates will be Dobrica Veselinović and…

A policeman was martyred while two terrorists were killed during an attack on the Kundal patrolling post in Mianwali during the early hours of Sunday, Punjab police chief Usman Anwar said in a statement. “Kundal Punjab Highway Patrolling Post, in a daring operation assisted by the Counter Terrorism Department Punjab, successfully thwarted an attack by 12 to 15 terrorists last night at approximately 23:45 hours,” it stated. According to the statement, Head Constable Haroon embraced martyrdom during the operation — which concluded after 7am — while multiple terrorists sustained injuries. “Following a thorough area search conducted by the CTD personnel,…

Chants of “freedom” echoed through the streets outside an aid facility in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday where just days earlier an American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men. Hundreds of Haitians marched through the gang-ravaged zone, bursting with anger at the abduction, which has become a symbol of the worsening violence plaguing the Caribbean nation. New Hampshire woman Alix Dorsainvil had been working as a community nurse for the religious and humanitarian aid group El Roi Haiti when she and her daughter were taken from its campus on Thursday, the organization said. She is the wife…