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The British government is willing to “move on” from the European Union’s aborted effort to impose a hard border between EU Ireland and British Northern Ireland and help Brussels overcome its vaccine failures.

A man who stabbed a police officer in the chest in London has received a prison term of less than three years.

President Joe Biden’s Green New Deal is an ‘impossible clusterf***.’ You probably knew this already but below are the raw details.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked Britain to pause vaccinations once at-risk groups are inoculated, so doses can be “fairly distributed” overseas.

A German study suggests that the Chinese coronavirus may inflict long-term on male fertility, with sperm quality significantly impacted over a period of 60 days.

U.S. President Joe Biden will pay a visit to Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in London before a summit of the G7 big economies in June.

The United Kingdom’s social distancing regulations may need to remain in place throughout the entirety of 2021 if vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus are not at least 85 per cent effective, government scientists have warned.

Police in the multicultural southern Swedish city of Malmö say that the murder rate has fallen since 2018 because many gang leaders are behind bars.

Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s call to Australian lawmakers for leniency over plans to regulate tech giants and force them to pay for news sourced from local media outlets has been roundly rejected by Canberra.

(AFP) — A new visa scheme offering millions of Hong Kongers a pathway to British citizenship went live on Sunday as the city’s former colonial master opens its doors to those wanting to escape China’s crackdown on dissent.

Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project.

The U.K. virus variant, now found in nearly half of U.S. states, might be more deadly than previous versions, scientists warn.

At least 69 monuments and memorials in Britain have been removed, renamed, or altered after Black Lives Matter (BLM) swept the country, according to a Guardian audit.

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) – Samia Dridi, who was born, raised and works as a nurse in Saint-Denis, fears for her impoverished town, recalling how the coronavirus cut an especially deadly path through the diverse area north of Paris, a burial place for French kings entombed in a majestic basilica.

Five men have been arrested after a group of migrants set fire to the former military barracks in Kent, which had been converted into a camp for asylum seekers in the wake of massive illegal boat migration.

Police in Austria have banned 15 of 17 planned demonstrations against government coronavirus lockdown measures, including a major protest in Vienna this weekend.

(AFP) — Hundreds rallied in several French towns on Saturday in protests against Amazon called by anti-capitalist and environmental groups, including at one site where the US e-commerce giant plans a massive warehouse.

The European Union, which used the border between British Northern Ireland and the EU’s Republic of Ireland as an all-important bargaining chip in the Brexit talks, broke the rules it demanded for the province and introduced a hard border in an attempt to remedy its vaccine failures. 

Nigel Farage has hailed the GameStop rebellion as the natural successor to the populist movement which carried Brexit and Donald Trump to victory in 2016.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on the European Union to investigate allegations that migrants are being forcibly deported before they can claim asylum.

The British military has to fill in forms and alert NATO when moving forces from one part of the United Kingdom to another under the Northern Ireland protocol of Boris Johnson’s deals with the European Union, it has been revealed. 

Social media giant Twitter suspended the main account of Spanish populist party VOX this week after the party launched a new campaign to push back against Islamisation.

Singer Tom Jones revealed on a TV interview airing Friday that he has received a coronavirus vaccine, joking that he feels “bulletproof” after his second dose.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanded on Friday that AstraZeneca vaccines made at UK plants be sent to the EU to make up for a shortfall in production on the Continent. Hours later, Brussels also authorised banning exports of the medication to non-EU countries.

China said Friday it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport amid a bitter feud with London.

German media continues to criticise the European Union’s bureaucratic and slow handling of coronavirus vaccine procurement, with Bild hailing, by comparison, the “vaccination masters” Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

A Swedish politician, allegedly a member of the ruling Social Democrats, was caught accidentally showing pornography to colleagues during a remote meeting in the city of Uppsala. The incident occurred during a remote board meeting of the local city government

Brussels has postponed the inaugural meeting between Britain’s mission to the bloc and European Union officials, in apparent retaliation for the UK refusing to give the EU’s envoys the diplomatic status afforded to those representing sovereign states.

David Lammy, the Shadow Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, says it must be “racial injustice” that over half of under-18s in custody in Britain are Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME).

Frontex, the European Union’s border agency, has announced the suspension of its operations in Hungary after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) claimed that the Hungarian government had failed to protect migrants.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres placed his technology envoy on administrative leave Thursday, just days after announcing the appointment, while the globalist body investigates a series of accusations of abuse of authority and harassment.

A fire early Friday at a key hospital in Bucharest that also treats COVID-19 patients killed at least five people, authorities said.

The Davos agenda is a remote elite which doesn’t give a damn for ordinary folk. We are many; they are few – and therein lies our only hope.

West Midlands Police have had to apologise after one of their officers was caught on camera calling a member of the public an “idiot” and wrongly detaining him after he declined to give up personal information he was not obliged to provide.

Brexit chief Nigel Farage has said that the European Union’s handling of its vaccination programme shows that European nations are better off making their own decisions and should leave the bloc.

A record number of human trafficking victims sought help from a Finland Centre tackling the issue in 2020.