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The EU is haemorrhaging goodwill over its handling of the corona vaccine, as pro-Brussels outlets line up to criticise the bloc’s leadership.

The Romanian government has introduced a memorandum that would see Chinese companies barred from securing infrastructure projects, amid claims of unfair competition and shoddy workmanship. The Ministry of Transport said that Chinese enterprises are distorting the road and rail infrastructure

One of the three radical Islamist extremists who plotted to blow up a residential building in Paris claimed that killing babies was justified, according to the Islamic prophet Mohammed.

Pope Francis warned Tuesday that globalization risks creating a stultifying uniformity in the world if it fails to respect local diversity and individuality.

The populist Sweden Democrats have demanded the government draft legislation to ensure freedom of speech on the internet and fight big tech censorship.

After struggling to apportion blame for the bloc’s disastrous inoculation programme on drugs company AstraZeneca, Ursula von der Leyen has now taken to claiming that the EU should be proud of being so far behind the United Kingdom, implying that Brexit Britain had compromised on safety to become the Western world’s first to approve a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus.

LONDON (AP) – Capt. Tom Moore, the World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for health care workers, has died after testing

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that England will not return to the tiers system at the end of its third lockdown because the infectious nature of the new coronavirus strain renders the system redundant, and over reported concerns of the economic recovery of some areas of the country.

The United Nations said Tuesday that the humanitarian consequences of the “climate emergency” will be far worse unless “drastic efforts” are made to curb global emissions.

A single tweet criticising a politically correct court decision has cost a London barrister his career.

Olivia Newton-John hit back Tuesday at critics who attacked the BBC’s airing of the classic hit 1970s musical Grease over Christmas and called it racist, sexist, homophobic and “slut-shaming.”

Scottish MPs will vote on whether the local government should investigate former President Trump over the financing of his golf courses.

The 19 countries that use the euro are expected to lag China and the U.S. in bouncing back from the worst of the pandemic.

A senior figure from the UK government’s immunisation committee predicts that Britons will have to have annual coronavirus vaccines as the Chinese coronavirus mutates into different strains.

People in areas of the UK with identified outbreaks of the South African strain of the coronavirus have been warned to “think again” before leaving their homes, a government minister said. Universities Minister Michelle Donelan said on Tuesday that while

A police commissioner and a deputy prosecutor were caught dining out at an underground restaurant in violation of the country’s corona rules. 

“Cancel culture aims to make people afraid to express their opinions”, and Big Tech is pushing the new system, the minister told Breitbart.

Poland’s new Freedom Act against Big Tech censorship will see members of the public automatically notified of “shadowbans” and empowered to overturn restrictions if their speech online is lawful.

The United Kingdom has reportedly become the first country so secure in its coronavirus vaccination strategy, that it is already planning to stockpile doses for 2022. Meanwhile, the European Union remains far behind even in its inoculation programme for 2021.

The Black Lives Matter-inspired ‘Colonial Countryside’ project from the National Trust, which published a shame list of heritage properties with supposed links to colonialism, received some £160,000 in taxpayer funding and lottery money.

Belgian police arrested more than 300 people in Brussels before two banned demonstrations against coronavirus lockdown measures.

An English treasure hunter struck gold when he was hunting for treasure in England and unearthed a solid gold figurine that is now in the British Museum.

Speculation is mounting that Britain could divert some of its vaccines to other countries, and in particular the Republic of Ireland, which has been left short by the EU’s botched procurement programme.

In an act of civil disobedience, a tattoo shop in South London opened on Saturday, January 30 in protest against lockdown restrictions, which prevent “non-essential” shops from operating. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart London, the owner of the Croydon-based

Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly offered to fill Google’s role in Australia after the search giant’s threats to leave the country if a new law is passed that would force Google to pay publishers for news content.

The influential Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE) has endorsed a report telling government ministers to consider mandating mask-wearing in busy outdoor settings such as markets, playgrounds, and parks. The paper by SAGE’s Environmental Modelling Group added that there was a

The left-wing, pro-mass immigration Labour party is now taking Boris Johnson’s government to task over its lax border controls, as people continue to fly into the country despite the punishing internal lockdown on local people and businesses. 

The British taxpayer has shelled out over £15,000 to the widow of the mastermind behind the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, while the families of victims were denied similar financial support.

A number of Christian churches active in Denmark are protesting proposed legislation that would require translated copies of foreign-language sermons to be submitted to government authorities for review.

Merkel and German state governors were planning to talk Monday on ways to beef up the country’s sluggish vaccination campaign.

The burden on the British taxpayer has hit levels not seen in 70 years, yet the Treasury secretary is considering tax hikes to make up for the massive budget shortfalls incurred during the Chinese coronavirus crisis and the ensuing lockdowns.

The German media has continued to criticise the EU’s handling of its vaccine programme, headed by the country’s former defence minister, with an editor from Germany’s largest-selling newspaper calling it the “biggest confidence-destroying programme in its history”.

LONDON — Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens. She was 34.

The pro-abortion UK Lancet medical journal has expressed outrage over constitutional reform in Honduras protecting the lives of unborn children.

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union.

Infamous Islamic hate preacher Anjem Choudary will be free to spread his malevolent rhetoric in Britain, as his ban on public speaking will reportedly be lifted later this year.