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Looking forward to your summer holiday? Well, it may not happen if Neil Ferguson (aka Professor Pantsdown) gets his way. The disgraced computer modeller from Imperial College has been warning on BBC radio about yet another deadly COVID-19 variant.

Italian media erupted with anger after it was revealed that a French museum would be scrapping Roman numerals at exhibits after claims that fewer people can understand them.

Scotland Yard has described how a shooting could have nearly turned into a murder investigation after an unknown assailant discharged a firearm several times in the direction of London Metropolitan police officers.

Denmark has proposed countering the formation of parallel societies by limiting the number of non-Western residents in neighbourhoods to no more than 30 per cent.

A 26-year-old Afghan migrant faces up to ten years in prison after being charged with child endangerment following the drowning of his six-year-old son while trying to reach Europe by boat from Turkey. 

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s government announced plans Friday to reopen the Acropolis in Athens and other ancient sites nationwide and provide free weekly rapid tests for COVID-19 for all the country’s residents as it prepares to restart the tourism season in mid-May.

Immigration judges have restored the British citizenship of three British-Bangladeshi Islamic State defectors, one of whom was not even born in the country.

A leading Conservative MP has said that a report by Historic England tying historical sites to slavery should be “shredded”. 

Germany, France, Italy, and Poland are among the European nations entering or extending lockdowns this week.

Orban said he will soon meet with other right-wing politicians from Poland and Italy to discuss setting up a new political force in Europe.

A Belgian bishop said this week he is “ashamed” of the Vatican’s ruling that clergy are not permitted to bless homosexual unions.

Shamima Begum, one of three British schoolgirls who ran away to Syria to marry Islamic State militants, said she joined the terror group because she did not feel loved by her mother and begged for a “second chance” and to be allowed to return to the UK.

A new child sexual exploitation unit in Manchester, England, has been launched after years of failure on so-called “grooming” rape gangs. 

A Nigerian migrant was indicted by a French court in Roanne on Tuesday after being charged with kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child.

The Home Office has reported more than 10,000 suspected cases of modern slavery in the UK last year, though the effects of lockdown mean that the figure could be even higher.

The United Kingdom, so far a world-leader in the vaccination game, may be forced to slow the pace of shots after a major supplier nation decided it would keep more of its production for its own people. 

U.S. President Joe Biden has appeared to side with the EU as it launches legal action against Brexit Britain, backing its imposition of internal borders between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom.

A 33-year-old Moroccan migrant suspected of 44 crimes under 15 fake identities has been sentenced to an extra year in prison.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group conducted a passing and communication exercise with the Turkish Navy in the Mediterranean Sea this week, the Navy said on Thursday.

A Canadian father has been arrested for “misgendering” his own 14-year-old child by calling her his “daughter,” and referring to her with the pronouns “she” and “her.”

This is like something from a parallel universe, where Labour, not BoJos ‘Conservatives’ won the election…

British regulators said that people should keep getting vaccinated following its review of data on patients who suffered from blood clots.

Finland´s domestic security agency said Thursday that a China-linked group was likely behind a cyberspying attack on parliament.

After setting up a fingerprint database in cooperation with North African countries, the Paris police prefecture positively identified 229 “minor” migrants, of which 216 were revealed to be adults.

Police will begin recording offences believed to be motivated by misogyny as hate crimes in the wake of Sarah Everard’s apparent murder, Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed. 

The United Kingdom could adopt an Australia-style asylum system of holding migrants overseas while processing their claims in an effort to deter illegal migration.

The European Commission unveiled its proposal for a coronavirus vaccine passport scheme on Wednesday, with the hopes of opening up travel within the bloc by the summer.

Simona Baldassarre, a Member of the European Parliament for Matteo Salvini’s League, has denounced a new glossary from the European Union that allegedly directs members to stop saying terms like “mother” and “father”.

This is part of the UK’s £24bn defence spending splurge, presumably to be financed from a Magic Money Tree, called the Integrated Review.

The UK’s policing minister has suggested that schools should teach boys how to treat women in public, as feminists and far-leftists continue to hijack the tragic death of Sarah Everard to advance an anti-male agenda.

The Netherlands has changed its postal voting system mid-election, which could result in thousands of votes previously considered invalid to be counted.

Anti-police activists and feminist protesters chanted a quote from Marxist cop-killer Assata Shakur as they gathered in Parliament Square on Tuesday to demonstrate against Home Secretary Priti Patel policing bill.

Europe’s floundering commission has threatened they will use emergency powers to seize shipments of vaccines if it doesn’t get its own way.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has condemned “Marxists” for “hijacking” the protests related to the killing of London woman Sarah Everard, after a memorial to the Second World War was defaced with graffiti declaring “ACAB” (“all cops are b*st*rds”) and branding Sir Winston Churchill a “racist”.

Luca Casarini, head of the Italian migrant taxi NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, defended receiving money from a Danish shipping corporation after his ship transferred migrants from a Danish vessel last year.

A Franco-Ivorian man and his Belgian wife have been convicted of killing a British businessman a quarter of a century ago.