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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has urged protesters against coronavirus vaccine mandates to exercise “responsible freedom.”

The prime minister’s office has clashed with the UK’s Health Security Agency chief over her recommendations for people to socialise less before Christmas — going beyond the official guidance — with a Number 10 spokesman stating “she is not a government minister”.

French Interior Minister claimed migrants threaten to throw babies overboard if police attempted to stop them from sailing to the UK. 

Yussuf Mustapha, 14, is believed to be the UK’s youngest convicted gun murderer after he was found guilty of killing a classmate.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union said Tuesday that it wants China to release “verifiable proof” that tennis player Peng Shuai is safe and to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into her sexual assault allegations.

A French government official has accused the UK of operating an economic model in which illegal migrants are entered into “modern slavery”.

More than four-in-five voters think the British government is handling the Channel migrant crisis badly, with more than three-quarters of Conservative Party supporters thinking the same.

BA has temporarily suspended flights to Hong Kong in order to avoid the risk of any more crews being sent to a notorious quarantine centre.

A union representing Border Force employees is joining a legal fight to stop the government from having them halt illegal boat migrants at sea and return them to safe, first-world France. 

Germany’s highest court rejected complaints against curfews and other restrictions imposed by federal legislation earlier this year.

Australian pop star Cody Simpson warned against tyranny in a recent social media post, urging his 4.1 million followers to “stand up to oppression and authoritarianism,” adding that “a fearful public is a controllable public.”

Australia reportedly plans to introduce new legislation that would force social media giants to provide the personal details of users who post defamatory comments.

Nearly four centuries after the first arrival of English ships, the Caribbean island of Barbados will officially remove Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state, renouncing the Crown in favour of becoming a republic.

Thirty-nine men and three women, aged 41 to 83, have been charged with historic offences encompassing rape, pimping, and false imprisonment, related to six children in Kirklees, Yorkshire.

AMSTERDAM (AP) – The Netherlands moved into a tougher lockdown Sunday that was announced amid spiking infections even before the country recorded its first confirmed cases of the new, more highly transmissible omicron virus variant.

The British government will reportedly begin issuing fines again for not wearing masks on public transport and in shops.

CALAIS, France (AP) – The EU’s border agency will dispatch a plane to monitor the shores of the English Channel for migrant activity after 27 people died when their overcrowded, inflatable boat sank en route to Britain, the deadliest migration

The French government has said that the UK is too attractive to migrants, in an apparent attempt to shift blame to Britain for the crisis.

“The debate on migration is not really about migrants,” Pope Francis said Monday, urging leaders to stop thinking about numbers and worry about individuals.

Sweden’s first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, who resigned last week after barely eight hours, has been re-elected.

The approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia was outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “biggest mistake”, said Donald Tusk.

The British government has handed out nearly £90,000 to a far-left NGO that has called for the abolition of borders.

The British government is deporting a convicted people-trafficker from Albania for the third time in under two years, highlighting how ineffective its border control regime is even on those rare occasions when it actually removes people from the country.

TOKYO (AP) – Portuguese health authorities said Monday they have identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant believed to be more contagious, among team members of a professional soccer club.

The term ‘Megxit’ will reportedly be dropped as the title for an upcoming episode of a BBC documentary series due to accusations of sexism.

It appears “polar bears are being forced to change their eating habits” thanks to global warming, climate alarmists at Euronews announced Sunday.

President Milos Zeman was separated from Prime Minister Fiala and the other officials and wheeled in by a totally covered aide.

(AFP) — An episode of The Simpsons in which the cartoon American family visit Tiananmen Square is missing from the Disney+ streaming service in Hong Kong, adding to concerns about mainland China-style censorship in the city.

The incoming coalition government in Germany is set to push for a so-called ‘United States of Europe’ and create an EU Superstate.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – Lawmakers from all three Baltic states met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday in a sign of further cooperation between European Union nations and Taiwan.

VIENNA — Negotiators gathered in Vienna on Monday to resume talks over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-line new government in Tehran led to a more than five-month hiatus.

The Cypriot ambassador to the Holy See, George Poulides, said this week the highlight of Pope Francis’ visit to the island nation of Cyprus next week will be his meeting with migrants and refugees.

A survey found that half of the French public believe in the “Great Replacement” theory in regards to replacing the native French population. 

UK Civil servants have axed the word ‘Christmas’ from a proposed government campaign, for fear the term will offend minorities.

On Sunday, voters in Switzerland gave clear backing to legislation that introduced a system with special COVID-19 certificates.

Pope Francis launched an appeal for migrants Sunday, insisting that when we think of migrants we should think of their suffering.