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In an apparent attempt to fend off a re-run of the quick collapse of his predecessor, French Prime Minister François Bayrou attempted to throw out some red meat to the right in his maiden speech to the National Assembly, backing proportional representation, increased deportations, and avoiding heavy tax hikes on businesses. However, it remains to be seen how long Bayrou can keep the knives at bay in Paris.

Britain’s anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq, whose aunt is the ousted PM of Bangladesh, has resigned while protesting her innocence. 

Ukrainian President says he again discussed deploying Western troops to face down future Russian aggression in a call with Macron

PARIS — A French woman who revealed on TV how she had lost her life savings to scammers posing as Brad Pitt has faced a wave of online harassment and mockery, leading the interview to be withdrawn on Tuesday.

Defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders described meeting President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge as complicated.

Queen wasn´t told details of her long-time art adviser because palace officials didn´t want to add to her worries.

More polling shows Farage’s Reform is leaving the disgraced Conservative Party in its wake, coming just one point behind governing Labour.

Downing Street insisted Monday that Britain’s embattled Treasury chief will remain in office for the remainder of the left-wing Labour government’s term as Westminster speculation swirled about a potential change given the faltering UK economy.

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that his government understands America’s legitimate security interests in the Arctic region but is still not interested in handing over Greenland as President-elect Donald Trump has demanded.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday ordered Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko to prepare a plan for assisting the hapless governments of California and Los Angeles with controlling deadly wildfires.

The European Commission deniedit had tried to cover up the state of health of its president, Ursula von der Leyen.

A whistleblower has claimed that an inquiry into the Rotherham child rape grooming gang scandal intentionally avoided implicating senior police officers in a report on local failures to protect young girls in the English town.

Russia going around vital logistics hub, taking aim at highway that leads to Dnipro instead, Major Viktor Trehubov says.

A 31-year-old woman was raped by a man on her way home from a concert in central Paris in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Herbert Kickl and his prospective coalition partners said they have reached an agreement to bring down the budget deficit.

An attempt was made to destroy the final working pipeline carrying Russian gas energy into Europe, Moscow claims.

Green radicals from the Just Stop Oil activist collective defaced Charles Darwin’s grave on Monday, claiming that humanity will not be able to adapt to the supposed climate crisis.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity has fallen since the Yellow Vest protests, while Marine Le Pen leads the pack of potential successors.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published a video on social media on Sunday of two men Ukraine claims are North Korean soldiers captured on the front lines of the Russian invasion, allegedly fighting without having been told they were going to war.

Sweden will contribute up to three warships to a NATO effort to increase the alliance’s presence in the Baltic Sea as it tries to guard against sabotage of underwater infrastructure, the government said Sunday.

A Labour Party MP has broken ranks with Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer to demand a national public inquiry into the child rape grooming gang scandal, arguing that the substantial public interest is not merely a fixation of the so-called “far-right”.

An emergency task force arrived in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected, officials said.

PARIS (AP) – Two trams collided in Strasbourg in eastern France on Saturday, causing dozens of injuries, though none critical, authorities said. The accident took place during the afternoon in a tunnel leading to the station near the city’s central train station.

A victim of a Pakistani child rape grooming gang joined Nigel Farage and Reform UK to demand a national public inquiry into the abuse of young girls in Britain and the failures of authorities to protect them.

Ivor Caplin, a former Labour Party MP and government minister, was reportedly arrested following a ‘paedophile hunter’ group sting.

France on Saturday handed over its second army base in Chad as part of an agreement with the country’s authorities to withdraw its military forces.

A decade-long legal battle over a lost Bitcoin fortune has ended in disappointment for James Howells, an IT engineer from Newport, Wales, after a court dismissed his lawsuit against the Newport City Council. The man hoped to search a landfill for a hard drive he accidentally threw away more than a decade ago holding Bitcoin now worth $750 million.

Italian police are investigating a series of suspected ‘Islamic ritual’ sexual assaults against young women during New Year’s Eve in Milan by around 40 men.

Ukraine’s forces have captured two North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russian troops in Russia´s Kursk border region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

The Nigel Farage-led Reform UK party has tied for first place in a national poll for the first time in its history, as the Westminster establishment parties continue to struggle.

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told visiting Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani on Friday that he was ready to stem “illegal immigration” to Europe, the European diplomat said.

British treasurer Rachel Reeves said Saturday that London was a “natural home” for Chinese finance during a visit to Beijing in the shadow of bond market turmoil back home.

A former chief of staff to the UK PM heavily implies a conspiracy is afoot because Elon Musk is too well-informed about the UK to believe.

Thousands of Romanians gathered on Friday outside the parliament building in Bucharest, which also houses the country’s Constitutional Court, to protest the court’s annulment of the November presidential election.

Europe´s security “on a knife-edge” and Trump right to say NATO nations must increase spending, Britain´s top diplomat said.

Police are investigating suspected sabotage after persons unknown attempted to access the water treatment plant at a German NATO airbase.

For the West, the incidents are a test of resolve in the face of what are believed to be widespread sabotage attacks linked to Moscow.