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The EU should have its own parallel NATO-like defence structures — albeit one without America — President Ursula von der Leyen said.

The artist Finneas and three other supporting acts announced they had quit British superstar Ed Sheeran’s tour on Tuesday, after rapper Macklemore was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments while performing.

Madrid is reportedly planning to give beds to 10,000 illegals in Spain’s North African Ceuta exclave, undermining claims made by the Sánchez government and indicating that the crisis facing the small city is nowhere near over.

A small English village has voted to leave the UK in protest against the government’s plans to build a large asylum centre there.

A group of Ceuta residents and workers on Tuesday formed a human chain to protest against a new migrant shelter the Spanish socialist central government is preparing near the embattled exclave’s port.

Turnabout is fair play according to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who has warned the left-wing Labour Party that he will look to ban political donations from trade unions should the government seek to retroactively ban two large donations from his supporters.

La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon is on course to reach the second round of voting in next year’s presidential election against Marine Le Pen after surpassing the Macronist establishment, a poll has found.

Coal continues to defy climate doomers who demand its replacement for power generation sooner rather than later. The latest sales figures affirm that dominance with global coal demand forecast to rise by ​1.2 percent in 2026 to a record 8.94 billion ‌tonnes due to the Middle East conflict and an almost insatiable global hunger for the dependable power source, the International Energy Agency (IAE) said.

Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones has slammed the term “nepo baby” to categorise the offspring of famous parents, lamenting it is “horrific” to label children of the rich, the powerful and the well connected like that.

A Ukraine war drone is believed to have been shot down over NATO ally Lithuania for the first time after it entered from Belarus overnight.

Gamers across the European Union (E.U.) will soon have to verify their age as part of the upcoming “E.U. Kids Act,” a report states.

Spanish authorities have documented 35 different sexual assault cases at Ceuta in the first 45 days since the late July migrant invasion of the city, Andalusian Senior Prosecutor Ana Tárrago disclosed on Monday.

A top Australian newspaper has claimed to have seen French authorities aiding illegal migrants in making their way on people-smuggler-operated small boats to the United Kingdom.

Argentine Defense Minister Carlos Presti on Sunday said that President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on the Falkland Islands seek to find a “peaceful solution” to the longstanding territorial dispute that Argentina maintains over the British islands.

The First Ministers of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales put on a united front on Monday, vowing to — at least eventually — break up the UK on the basis of national “self-determination” while simultaneously promising to bring their populations back under the yoke of the globalist European Union.

The European Arctic Summit held its first working session in Finland on Monday, bringing leaders from across Europe together to discuss the possibilities offered by new Arctic shipping routes and natural resources, as well as the dangers posed by Russia’s heavy presence.

The British Prime Minister has cleared his diary for two days after his father died after an illness. 

The regional leader of the pro-border-control AfD party said his faction was “the clear winner of the evening”.

The left-wing voting bloc in Sweden appears to have won Sunday’s general election after eking out a razor-thin lead over the governing right-wing coalition; however, forming a government may prove difficult for the Social Democrats.

U.S. President Donald Trump bade farewell to Ireland on Sunday, ending his two-day visit by announcing he will remove tariffs from Irish whiskey.

Spain’s Federal Police Union (UFP) on Sunday denounced the “absolute collapse” of Ceuta’s overworked police forces, pushed to their limit by the mass illegal migrant invasion of the embattled enclave.

Boris Johnson was reportedly forced to evacuate from his train travelling from Ukraine to Poland after the rail line was struck in a Russian drone strike.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage

American authorities allegedly removed a U.S. diplomat serving in London from the country in a secret operation after he was accused of possessing child porn.

Allegations of homosexual prostitution and obscenity made against LGBTQI+ groups in Muslim-majority Turkey saw 26 people detained since Friday with offices of six allied associations also targeted in a series of police raids.

Civilians were killed and injured overnight as Russia and Ukraine continued to attack each other with waves of drones.

The French public continues to sour on President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity has fallen to a record low as the race to replace him in the Élysée Palace is starting to ramp up.

A renewed call for world peace was issued Sunday by Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pontiff, as he commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 Islamic terrorist attacks on his home country with a call to prayer for those innocents who paid with their lives.

President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Friday that sending any troops to help Ukraine would mean an escalation of the conflict and “war with Russia.”

French authorities are investigating whether sabotage caused a train derailment that injured 44 people in Normandy, after a piece of rail was found on the track, police told The Associated Press on Saturday.

Large crowds of protesters converged on central Portsmouth on Saturday in the wake of a tense standoff last week following a boat carrying illegal migrants being brought ashore, and hundreds of masked men attempted to block authorities from allowing the aliens into the interior.

Two incidents along Ukraine’s borders with Poland and Moldova this week are a preview of potential intensified Russian provocations at Ukraine’s border crossing points with Europe, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

Donald Trump said Saturday he would “love to see” a united Ireland, wading into a politically sensitive subject as he embarked on a two-day Irish visit that blurs the lines between his presidency and personal business interests.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured a record £72 million in political donations over the past 24 hours after two prominent supporters each pledged to give the upstart anti-mass migration party £36 million.

U.K. lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives.

Non-Germans are massively over-represented among suspects in murder and manslaughter crimes in the German state of Bavaria.