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Bundestag fines AfD MP over left-wing MP’s own clitoris remark
“Mr Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings – and yet you are even more sensitive,” Gebel told the chamber.
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Turkish police raid pro-opposition Halk TV and halt broadcasts as trustee takes over
Financial crimes police entered the building in Zeytinburnu before 6.30am, barring staff from entry as they conducted searches.
French LFI MEP accused of throwing EU and Israeli flags on the ground at October 7 exhibition
Rima Hassan published a photograph of the two flags on the floor and called for her to be “sanctioned without delay”.
UN rapporteur warns France after journalist fined for prison remarks on transgenderism
The judgment included a €1,000 fine, with damages to the civil parties and their legal costs making up the rest.
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Brussels moves closer to possible ban on ESN party
Six experts, selected by the EU institutions, are now set to examine whether the European political family led by Germany’s AfD is breaching the bloc’s fundamental…
Hungarian prosecutors detain two Orbán-era ministers after immunity vote
Balázs Hankó and Miklós Seszták were taken into custody by a prosecution service that has had no confirmed chief since its last one resigned under pressure from…
19 months prison for Turkish comedian who ‘insulted’ Erdogan
He was acquitted of praising crime and criminals, a charge added later over a joke about an organised-crime family known as the Daltons.
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Polish prosecutors drop case against Lech Wałęsa on grounds of his lack of literacy
The former president enjoys good relations with the current ruling coalition led by Tusk and very bad relations with the opposition.
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Daughter of AfD-adjacent intellectual Götz Kubitschek barred from becoming teacher over links to her father
Alruna Hauser had completed her studies in German and school music in Dresden, in the eastern German state of Saxony.
BBC cuts 11 ‘racist’ Mitchell and Webb sketches from iPlayer anniversary release
Viewers and Reddit users noticed the gaps after the iPlayer upload. Neither Mitchell nor Webb has commented. BBC News said it had asked them.
Călin Georgescu arrested in early hours with huge police force
Officers of the organised-crime and terrorism directorate and the national police executed five home-search warrants in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani and Buftea.
French TV channel apologises after documentary shows French nuclear missile hitting Tel Aviv
The clip ran in Rafale, drones et canons : la révolution des armes françaises, a documentary on modern French weaponry first broadcast on September 1.
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Zelensky’s former press secretary barred from European Parliament after criticism of his policies
Iuliia Mendel was due to speak on peace and diplomacy at an ESN event in Strasbourg, alongside AfD and Weltwoche figures.
Ghent students walk out after honorary vice-rector condemns Cofnas ‘lynching’
Professor Freddy Mortier, a honorary vice-rector and professor in ethics , used the platform to call out colleagues who had ganged up on Cofnas.
Belgian defence minister says anti-terror law could be used against communist festival
Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken stated that the new anti-terror law could target foreign speakers at the upcoming ManiFiesta festival, citing concerns over…
Spain’s Interior Ministry admits secret ideological files on dozens of journalists
The Spanish Government says the dossier was for internal use only and denies it amounted to a blacklist.
Swedish court convicts activist who named sex offenders on Facebook
Aggravated defamation carries a maximum of two years in prison. The court said the posts had spread so widely that they could not be regarded as justifiable.
Turkish comic who mocked Erdoğan rearrested on separate charges just after being released
Deniz Göktaş was detained at Istanbul Airport on July 2 after returning from a trip abroad and jailed the following day.
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AfD politicians barred from video game fair Gamescom
MEP Mary Khan said "With the AfD leading the polls in Saxony-Anhalt, Gamescom will soon discover that political reality is not so easy to switch off".
‘I’ve gotten many death threats, a tremendous amount of hate’, dr. Nathan Cofnas tells Brussels Signal
He published on July 21. UK papers followed. Cambridge opened an investigation. Arday resigned on August 5 and was found dead in his home 9 days later.
Heinz lifts ban on Christian references for personalised ketchup labels after backlash
The company’s British online customisation service previously blocked those Christian references while accepting “Allah”, “Islam”, “Muslim” and even…
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Hungarian public television resumes news after government-ordered blackout
Weeks earlier the Prime Minister overturned an editorial appointment at the broadcaster with a comment on Facebook.
Ghent University suspends academic who exposed Arday fraud, eyes firing him
The researcher in question is Nathan Cofnas, an American philosopher of biology who joined Ghent in 2026.
German study puts true Covid infections at 14 per cent of PCR positives
The analysis compared nationwide swab results against antibody screening run by the same laboratories, a method other scientists say cannot show the tests were wrong.
Russian court jails Yabloko deputy chairman for 11 years as Supreme Court confirms election ban
The Central Election Commission struck Yabloko from the federal ballot paper on August 18, leaving 10 parties in the list contest.
Elon Musk says X will make government censorship requests clearly visible
Users will be informed when a government authority seeks the removal of a specific post or the restriction of an account.
GB News presenter forced from home after police warn of threat from Channel smugglers
Officers advised the couple to pack a bag immediately, avoid using their own car in case it had been tampered with and travel by black cab to a safe location.
Attal calls for referendum after French court strikes down under-15 social media ban
The Constitutional Council found that Article 1 of the law, adopted by parliament on July 21, constituted "an infringement that is neither appropriate, necessary,…
Cambridge college issues content warning for Little Red Riding Hood over ‘themes of violence’
The warning is the latest example of content advisories applied to literary material at Cambridge.
Court confirms weapons permit revocations for AfD members in Saxony-Anhalt
That provision states that a person is generally considered unreliable if they belong to or support an association that pursues aims directed against the constitutional…