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In another explosive Brexit intervention, Donald Trump today poured scorn on the Prime Minister and insisted she rule out a second referendum giving the British public the final say on their future relationship with the EU. In a week of dramatic votes on the Brexit process, including ruling out leaving the EU with no Brexit deal and postponing Britain’s exit from the EU to thrash out a viable deal, Donald Trump has made his feelings clear. His incendiary remarks were...

Labour MEP Jude Kirton-Darling called out the "collusion with fascists to destroy British jobs & livelihoods."

The US president has tweeted a claim regarding climate change that is false.  He seemed to be tweeting a statement he watched on Fox News on Tuesday morning, writing, “Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: “The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it’s Fake Science. There is no climate crisis, there’s weather and climate all around the world, and in fact carbon dioxide is the main building block of all life.” However,  the Greenpeace organisation refutes Mr Moore’s claims that he...

A former Australian PM has not held back on his thoughts on the potential Brexit trade plan with the Commonwealth. Kevin Rudd called the idea ““the nuttiest of the many nutty arguments” and more tellingly “utter b*llocks.” He was PM of Australia from 2007 to 2010 and from June to September 2013. Rudd told the Guardian: “I’m struck, as the British parliament moves towards the endgame on Brexit, with the number of times Australia, Canada, New Zealand and India have...

Officers seized around 60 packages weighing a combined 1,437 kilos. The UK street value of the drugs is likely to have been in excess of £100 million.

The extreme far right now commands an electorate of over 22 million across Europe. From 1999 to 2014, the share of seats of extreme right-wing- and neofascist parties in the European Parliament has more than doubled from 11% to 23%, and they are projected to be the second largest bloc in May's elections. Is Europe under threat from the biggest rise of the far right since the 1930s? Walter Baier of Transform! Europe last weekend adressed the ¡No Pasaran! conference...

Some tragic news has emerged from Ethiopia. All 157 people on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight have died after crash landed. Seven Britons were among 157 people killed after an Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed shortly after take-off. iT occurred around 31 miles south of the capital at around 8.44am local time (5.44am GMT). The flight was scheduled to fly from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. "The group CEO who is at the accident scene right now regrets to confirm...

Another has been called Obelix, the Asterix character - because of its rather rotund shape.

As we begin the first day of Lent, 12-year-old climate change campaigner, Genesis Butler, has received a response from Pope Francis regarding her plea for him to try vegan for Lent as part of the Million Dollar Vegan campaign. However, Pope Francis has not yet confirmed whether he will do so, and therefore the campaign is asking whether His Holiness can meet with Butler over a vegan meal at the Vatican, during the Lenten period, to discuss her concerns. Should Pope Francis...