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Australia’s national broadcaster has come under fire for referring to the country’s national day as ‘Invasion Day’ in a headline.

Britain’s prison system is facilitating the spread of extremist ideologies by taking a soft approach to convicted terrorists, the government’s independent terrorism watchdog has found.

The European Commission has proposed a plan to distinguish countries by their coronavirus risk, with Sweden among the nations with the highest proportion of Chinese virus cases.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that before mid-February, his government will be “looking at the potential of relaxing some measures”. However, he did not state whether actual easing of lockdown could follow.

Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister has called on the U.S. to protect “every citizen” from Big Tech censorship on social media, as his own country prepares new laws enforcing free speech standards online.

The Vatican has called for a “responsible, unprecedented collective response” to the “momentous challenge” of climate change.

The government had “quietly” extended local lockdown powers until mid-Summer, according to reports, raising concern of lockdown sceptics over the Conservative government’s overreach of power and the “destruction” of civil liberties.

The UK govt’s recent ‘look him in the eyes’ coronavirus poster campaign has been described as ’emotionally manipulative propaganda’…

Riots erupted in the Netherlands on Sunday as citizens rose up in defiance against the national 9 pm coronavirus curfew imposed on the country.

Hundreds of cars are lining up at border crossings along border after Germany declared the Czech Republic a high risk area in the pandemic.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said it is still a “long, long, long” way off before the government can lift lockdown measures.

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen admitted that the purpose of his film’s sequel, which was released shortly before the 2020 presidential election, was to “deliver a message” on the “dangers of voting for Trump.”

Ten were arrested during a Toronto protest against the strict Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures implemented by the Ontario government. 

British police reportedly threatened to fine families for buying milk from a farm stand and told patrons to take their business to supermarkets in order to keep in line with coronavirus restrictions.

The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) has come under fire for a programme aimed at prepubescent children which claimed that there are “over 100” gender identities.

Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary and Biden fan Lisa Nandy MP backed calls for the British Army, Royal Air Force, and Royal Navy to be reforged as woke “human security services” which would be “gender balanced and ethnically diverse”

The Boris Johnson administration’s efforts to pass legislation which will allow the state to recruit children to spy on their parents and even break the law while doing so has horrified some of the party’s top parliamentarians.

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel is now claiming she will get tough on the woke hate speech laws left over from the Tony Blair era.

British businesses are locked out of the government’s £4.6 billion emergency coronavirus grant scheme because it has signed up to the European Commission’s “state-aid temporary framework”, according to reports.

Multinational investment bank HSBC has “colluded” with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to debank pro-freedom campaigners in Hong Kong, says the founder of Hong Kong Watch, as the bank’s chief executive is set to be grilled by British MPs on Tuesday.

Brexit Britain has enjoyed a slew of good news stories in manufacturing, on top of Nissan’s high-profile commitment to expanding operations in the country. 

Three radicalised Muslims face trial after being accused of plotting to commit a terror attack against Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) protestors in Paris in 2018.

Pope Francis urged Christians Sunday to give God’s word pride of place in their lives and in their homes, calling the Bible “a love letter, written to us by the One who knows us best.”

(AP) — France’s government may impose a third lockdown in the coming days if an existing 12-hour-a-day curfew doesn´t significantly slow virus infections.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly told Joe Biden that his ascendancy to the White House represented a “moment of hope in a dark time” as the leaders discussed their ‘Build Back Better’ agenda during a phone call on Saturday.

Roma gypsy migrants ordered to leave French territory have been using an EU loophole to avoid deportation, spending just hours across the border in Belgium and then returning.

LONDON (AP) — Britain is expanding a coronavirus vaccination program that has seen almost 6 million people get the first of two doses — even as the country’s death toll in the pandemic approaches 100,000.

The Austrian federal government has presented a “six-pillar” national strategy to stop the spread of antisemitism in the country.

Academics at the University of York removed a depiction of the three wise monkeys from their website after they determined it could be seen as an insult to ethnic minorities.

An attacker threw three Molotov cocktails at a church in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Spånga-Tensta.

A British police officer has been charged with a criminal offence for allegedly sharing a “grossly offensive” meme of George Floyd in a private message group with other officers. Sergeant Geraint Jones, 47, of the Devon and Cornwall police force,

A 35-year-old man has been hospitalized in grave condition after setting himself on fire in Minsk’s Independence Square on Friday, the Polish news channel Belsat TV reported.

In what has been described as “emotionally manipulative propaganda”, the British government has released a high-production lockdown ad campaign, attempt to guilt the public into obeying the country’s lockdown restrictions.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark has temporarily suspended all flights from the United Arab Emirates for five days after suspicion arose that the coronavirus tests that can be obtained before leaving Dubai are not reliable, authorities announced Friday.

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has set a target of zero new asylum seekers as her government’s new goal, citing concerns that too many migrants will affect the social cohesion of the country.

LONDON (AP) – A major British doctors’ group says the UK government should “urgently review” its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after the first, rather than the shorter gap recommended by the manufacturer and the World Health Organization.