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The trial for the killing of PC Andrew Harper has been referred to the Attorney General over possible jury tampering after three laughing teenagers were found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder for the death of Police Constable Harper, who

Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer has introduced a “Vienna Declaration” to combat mass illegal migration.

A director and trustee of Islamic Relief, Britain’s biggest Muslim charity, shared posts praising Hamas and branding Jews “the grandchildren of monkeys and pigs”.

Oslo (AFP) – Norway on Friday reimposed quarantine on arrivals from Spain over a spike in virus cases, but also said such restrictions would not apply to the team behind the latest “Mission: Impossible” blockbuster.

YouGov has found Black Lives Matter stunts such as protesting despite lockdown, removing statues, and taking the knee command little public support. 

British jihadists are pretending to be reformed, using the Islamic concept of “taqiyya”, in order to facilitate an early release from prison into the community where they pose a fresh risk to the public.

Masks are dehumanising, they impede communication, they’re unpleasant and restrictive to wear, they aid and abet criminals…

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for the European Union to pursue sanctions against Turkey over the country’s violations of the Greek exclusive economic zone in the Mediterranean.

The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Thursday that while new positive tests for coronavirus are appearing in Italy, numbers in intensive care units (ICU) are “constantly decreasing” and most new cases are asymptomatic and “healthy.”

Thousands of Muslim faithful gathered outside the historic Hagia Sophia site in Istanbul on Friday ready for the first prayers since Turkish authorities ruled the building’s rich Christian heritage could be overturned and the building reconverted into a mosque.

The Mayor of Bristol has revealed that he was branded “a traitor to the race” and “not really black” after an illegal Black Lives Matter statue was removed from the plinth formerly occupied by Edward Colston.

Britain’s defence minister has said that Islamic State remains “the most significant terrorist threat to the United Kingdom and our interests”.

An elderly woman in a Swedish nursing home went without eating because none of the carers working that day spoke Swedish well enough.

The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday reported comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo challenging his independence were untrue and would not distract the organisation from tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite coronavirus being significantly less lethal than a pandemic outbreak predicted by top government planners, the UK was still caught unprepared in 2020 in a failure that a parliamentary scrutiny committee categorised as “astonishing”.

Sheffield Cathedral has announced it will close down its current choir to ready itself “for the exciting future of the mixed urban community in which we live and work.”

A think tank has warned that British universities have become “worryingly dependent” on foreign income, especially from China, with two-thirds of revenue raised from charging Chinese students going to some of the UK’s top research institutes.

The European Commission has slammed the Turkish government over its Navtex alert issued earlier this week for seismic research off of the coast of a Greek island.

The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator has said that a trade deal with Britain is currently “unlikely”, as the country will not submit to the bloc’s demands on regulations and fisheries.

The former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is facing possible legal action after he said that the party’s legal settlement with antisemitism whistleblowers gave “credibility to misleading and inaccurate allegations”.

A 93-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was convicted Thursday for his part in helping to murder 5,232 prisoners, many Jewish, and handed a suspended two-year sentence in one of the last cases against World War II Nazi-era crimes.

One of the UK’s leading advertising executives has backed Boris Johnson’s Nanny State assault on “junk food” by pushing for a 9 pm “watershed” of advertising food deemed unhealthy.

People in Nuuk, Greenland, have voted overwhelmingly against removing a statue of missionary Hans Egede which was vandalised by activists in June.

A Swedish court has convicted and sentenced a Somalian migrant to 11 years in prison after he raped a nine-year-old girl at knifepoint earlier this year, his second child rape conviction in three years.

An African asylum seeker is suing the government after he contracted coronavirus while staying in taxpayer-funded migrant accommodation.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has promised to make the Home Office “more diverse” and “more compassionate”, with department staff set to be forced to takes courses on the history of race and migration.

The fertility rate for under 30s women fell to the lowest level since 1938, with nearly one-third of babies being born to foreign-born mums.

A study released by the French Centre for Terrorism Analysis (CAT) has revealed that 60 per cent of Islamic radicals who left France to fight abroad between 1986 to 2006 have gone on to commit terrorist offences.

A bizarre hostage standoff in Ukraine ended after 11 hours on Tuesday night when the “unstable” and heavily-armed suspect surrendered, in part because one of his demands was met: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to post a video message recommending viewers watch a 2005 movie about animal rights narrated by Joker star Joaquin Phoenix.

The New York Times published an anonymously sourced story on Tuesday accusing President Trump of asking the American ambassador to Britain to see if the British government could help him book the British Open golf tournament at the Trump golf course in Scotland. However, statements from both the British government and the golf association in charge of the tournament seem to contradict the story.

ROME — The number of officially recorded anti-Christian incidents in France has risen by 285 percent between 2008 and 2019, according to Ellen Fantini, director of the Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDACE).

The number of people testing positive for the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia has decreased during the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, according to figures released by the Swedish Public Health Agency. Chlamydia cases decreased by around 11 per cent between May and

The UK may properly depart the EU on December 31st as negotiations to keep links to Brussels falters, a British newspaper has claimed. 

Over 150 more boat migrants were brought ashore at Dover yesterday, bringing the total number of migrants illegally crossing the English channel this year to more than 3,000, a new record. On Tuesday, 159 illegal migrants, including small children, aboard

Greece put its armed forces on alert on Tuesday after Turkey announced it would be engaging in a seismic survey in disputed waters and launched 15 Turkish naval vessels.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party has agreed to pay substantial damages to seven whistleblowers who sued the party for defamation over an anti-Semitism dispute. The seven former employees appeared on a BBC investigative program last year looking into