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Greenpeace activists have dropped several large boulders into the English channel in an effort to stop fishing in a protected area. 

Over 220,000 Britons have signed a petition against the introduction of vaccine passports, forcing parliament to publicly debate the idea.

Far-left anarchists have taken credit for arson attacks on internet equipment in the latest act of infrastructure sabotage by extremists. 

Knife crime in Britain has doubled in the previous six years, rising above 50,000 incidents for the first time in the recorded history.

The Royal Family is about dignity, mystique and discretion — which is how it has survived into the 21st century. So what, exactly, is this?

Authorities in Germany raided homes and stores in connection with a far-right network suspected of involvement in drug trafficking.

A 33-year-old man was convicted of attempted extortion for threatening to blow up a hospital unless he was paid off with crypto currency.

Clashes and brawls between rivals gangs increased by 24 per cent in France in 2020, the Interior Ministry has revealed. 

Angela Merkel claimed that there is a unanimous agreement within the European Union on implementing a coronavirus vaccine passport system.

The European bishops have written a stern letter rebuking the European Parliament for its chastisement of Poland over a law preventing eugenic abortions.

A stone bust of Queen Elizabeth II has been decapitated in Canada, with its severed head nowhere to be found.

Supporters of anarchist terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas targetted the home of Greek President and the Greek consulate in Berlin this week.

A court in Kyiv ordered internet regulators to block over 400 websites in the country, many of them allegedly having ties to the Russian government, Ukrainian media reported Wednesday.

A member of Sadiq Khan’s statues commission who screamed at the Queen in church has resigned over antisemitism allegations.

The advocate general urged the court to rule that Hungary violated the bloc’s laws on asylum when it amended its asylum laws in 2018.

Hundreds of German police officers conducted coordinated raids early Thursday in the investigation of Islamic extremism.

People traffickers in the Mediterranean sea are allegedly using pregnant women as “weapons” to encourage public sympathy for mass migration.

The British government is advising that secondary school pupils wear masks when they reopen — but that they cannot be made compulsory. 

The United Kingdom’s top health official, Stephen Powis, the national medical director for NHS England, is warning Britons to take actress Gwyneth Paltrow’s coronavirus treatment advice with a hefty grain of salt.

The Australian government has reportedly passed a new law requiring Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for access to their content.

Doctors in Hungary on Wednesday began administering a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China, making the country the first in the EU to do so.

Attacks on officers have more than doubled, with an average of 85 incidents against public authority officials recorded every day.

Police in Slovenia have discovered 13 migrants from Iraq who were hidden in a cargo truck, suffering from dehydration and a lack of oxygen.

A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police was convicted by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has defended his strong stance against mass migration, saying the European Union’s relaxed attitude towards illegal border crossings “has turned the Mediterranean into a cemetery”.

Pope Francis’ new personal physician is a geriatric specialist who has downplayed the peculiarity of the coronavirus, calling it an “ordinary disease.”

DUBAI — Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is enjoying an extended honeymoon with oil-rich Gulf nations, despite being criticised in the United States and Europe as a potential security threat.

Europe’s best-selling tabloid has congratulated the UK for its coronavirus vaccine rollout, stating that Germany “envies” their neighbours.

A CCP propaganda outlet described Britain’s call for investigations into human rights abuses in Xinjiang as a “shameless imperialist act”.

Britain’s Bank of England is currently in the process of purging former governors and directors from its art collection for “inexcusable connections” to the historic slave trade, according to reports. 

A govt minister redecorating his study takes on special importance when you mix in a former pub landlord and £30 million of taxpayer’s money.

Hunter Biden has been accused of smuggling an ex-stripper past security into a building that houses several embassies, a report claims.

The economic future of Brexit Britain has defied doomsday Remainer warnings yet again, as some 1,000 financial firms in the European Union are planning to open up offices in the UK and London has been declared as the top city

The UK is under one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, but this appears to have had a questionable impact on corona health outcomes.

Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage has hailed a successful public pressure campaign against Coca-Cola pushing training that urged staff to “be less white”.

A proposed bill in the Australian parliament that would require Facebook and Google to pay news outlets for content has cleared its final hurdle, and Facebook has agreed to restore access to news pages in the country after the government agreed to small changes to the legislation.