UK’s Boris Johnson has introduced vax passes for English venues and extended other measures, pointing to lockdown Christmas for a second year.
Everyone (well, everyone even vaguely interested in UK politics) is talking about the secret Christmas party held last year in 10 Downing Street, apparently in defiance of lockdown and mask regulations. But there’s lots about this story that just doesn’t add up.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised Boris Johnson for claiming that the UK may need to have a “national conversation” about mandatory vaccination.
The president commented on his video call Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he left the White House for a trip to Kansas.
UK’s Boris Johnson has introduced vax passes for English venues and extended other measures, pointing to lockdown Christmas for a second year.
As the Italian “Super Green Pass” vaccine passport debuted this week, some Italians have expressed confusion at the new regulations and reported a lack of enforcement by police.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of employing a ‘dead cat strategy’ — killing a bad news story with a worse one — by planting lockdown rumours after damaging revelations about an allegedly rules-busting government Christmas party emerged in the press.
Stratton resigned hours after footage of her discussing a hotly-contested cheese and wine night, allegedly at Downing Street, emerged.
The Social Democratic Party’s Olaf Scholz has been elected Chancellor of Germany, marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign.
ROME — A squad of police officers subdued and arrested an African immigrant who was posing nude in a public fountain in Rome’s Piazza dell Repubblica Wednesday.
Leaked video has revealed Downing Street’s senior staff joking about an alleged lockdown-breaking Christmas party at Number 10 last year — published just days after the deputy prime minister denied there was a party at Boris Johnson’s residence. The prime minister apologised for the video, but continues to maintain that there was no such event.
German police officers conducted dozens of raids across the country to crack down on human trafficking of workers from outside the EU.
Berlin archbishop Heiner Koch has barred unvaccinated Catholics from attending Mass in his archdiocese, sparking protests by members of the German faithful and an outcry from Catholics worldwide.
Drug abusers are to be treated like they have “a health problem” rather than a propensity to indulge in self-destructive and sometimes criminal behaviour in Scotland, with terms like “alcoholic” and “addict” scrapped in favour of woke alternatives.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has slammed the government for spending thousands of pounds of taxpayer money on Dominos pizza for illegal aliens landing by their hundreds — sometimes more than one thousand — daily, noting, however, that it was “just a very small part of the overall price we’re paying for what is going on in the English Channel”.
Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin missed a Wuhan coronavirus contact alert because she had left her government phone at home when she went out partying at a Helsinki nightclub.
Afghan nationals were the largest single group who applied for asylum in the European Union, Switzerland, and Norway in September, following the country’s fall to the Taliban in August.
Lockdown sceptic Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne has criticised the “mad scientists” advising the government, accusing them of having a “socialist wet dream” of introducing more coronavirus restrictions before Christmas.
Senior doctors in London say Britain faces a time-bomb of up to 300,000 new patients with heart conditions – which they attribute to “post-pandemic stress disorder”.
A ruling politician in the UK has suggested that people should take a COVID test every time they leave home.
A Christmas market in Paris’s 18th arrondissement requiring that all of the merchants be black led to allegations of racism and segregation.
There’s money in misery, a study affirmed Tuesday, as it revealed the share of household wealth owned by global billionaires soared by a record amount during the coronavirus pandemic. Millionaires were not far behind.
Perhaps the cocaine clampdown should start at the Palace of Westminster which makes Scarface look like The Muppet Christmas Carol…
The woke National Trust had become so “troubled and political” that it did not progress in discussions to honour it with an anniversary coin by The Royal Mint, according to reports.
French conservative candidate Zemmour held his first campaign rally where 39 hard-left extremists were arrested armed with weapons and acid.
Two councillors defected, but somewhat bizarrely both moves came on the same day, in the same local association, but to two different parties.
Restaurants, sports events, concerts, theatres, and other public events all off-limits even to those with a negative covid test from today.
Pope Francis said Monday that the European Union’s recent attempt to cancel Christmas is an “anachronism” more worthy of a Napoleon or a Hitler than modern Europe.
Conservative MP Sir Christopher Chope has accused his own government of “waging” a “propaganda war” on the British people to encourage them to support continuing restrictions.
MILAN (AP) – Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres, and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine sceptics to get their shots.
British police have launched an investigation after Hong Kong activists were targeted by a £10,000 anonymous bounty for information.
Pope Francis urged young people Monday to take some time away from cell phones and social media to get out and meet other people in person.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is taking seriously reports of widespread drugs abuse amid traces of cocaine being found in several lavatories in Parliament, saying he will raise the allegations with Scotland Yard.
Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.
Senior officials from the Slovak Republic are in Taiwan for talks on deepening ties with the island, the highest-level visit in many years.
UFC legend Conor McGregor has branded “forced” vaccination a “war crime” and slammed the EU and its “lapdogs” in the Irish government.
Macron wants representation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but insists this move won’t legitimise the Kabul regime.
A young Australian woman has claimed in a video interview that she was forcibly detained for two weeks in a Covid internment camp, despite not having the virus.
Two female police officers in the French commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin were attacked and wounded this week by a Senegalese migrant man armed with a sword.
Boris Johnson has been reported to the police by multiple Labour MPs over accusations he broke his own government’s coronavirus regulations.
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi revealed that his country has seen a six-fold increase in migrant landings since 2019, and called for help from the European Union in dealing with the ongoing crisis.
