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LondonThe British public overwhelmingly backs a hard exit from the EU. A major new study from the LSE and Oxford University shows even Remain voters now generally reject the soft Brexit policies advocated by the anti-Brexit lobby.

RomeDoctors Without Borders (MSF) will suspend its migrant rescues in the Mediterranean, the organisation declared on Saturday after Italian government moved to halt the human trafficking from North Africa.

A boat filled with African migrants, all men, landed on a beach in Spain and quickly disappeared mingling with the holiday makers. 

CologneSoon to be built in the Alte Feuerwache civic center in Cologne, is a "culture-sensitive" toilet for Muslims, ordered by the state authorities.

Hamburg no longer likes its Antifa, but are the inhabitants scared of them? The affected middle class is backtracking after proposals to close down the Antifa HQ in an alternative neighbourhood with not too expensive restaurants, and scene of the violent riots during the G20.

German-Dutch freelance reporter Claudia Zimmermann faced innumerable hardships after exposing her employer, German public broadcaster WDR, for Soviet-style censorship of the migrant crisis. Zimmermann faced rejected contributions, calls to boycott her and even a public letter refuting her reporting which she says had been strictly factual.

Campus Reform reported that Oregon State University, a self-described "liberal arts college" will offer a spring course on “fat studies” because it is a “social justice issue”.

The Syrian Army has been pounding the last terrorist-held district of Damascus,  Alarabiya TV reported. Jobar lies within the Syrian capital on the eastern side and extends close to the center of the city.

After Google fired James Damore, author of a manifesto defending a fact-based, scientific approach to the alleged gender gap in tech, many Google employees spoke out in support of his manifesto.

LondonThe Weekly Standard (WS), a British daily, reported that the recent influx of African migrants, particularly from Somalia and the Congo, has caused a spike in knife crimes.