German Federal Police confirmed that several people have been injured during a knife attack on a train on Saturday morning. A number of local media outlets are reporting the arrested suspect is a 27-year-old Syrian man.
Climate activists demanded an end to capitalism, “black liberation” and the abolition of police at a COP26 demonstration in Glasgow.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Bumping their elbows in greeting, European Union parliamentarians met with Taiwan’s premier on Wednesday in the first official visit of an EU delegation to the self-ruled island, which is also claimed by China.
As many as 8,000 people are expected to participate in an anti-vaccine passport protest on Saturday in Trieste, Italy, which banned protests in a major square until the end of the year.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Latvian parliament has given employers the go-ahead to dismiss employees who are required to get vaccinated against the coronavirus but refuse to do so.
BERLIN (AP) – A Russian diplomat has died in Berlin in what the Russian Embassy on Friday called a “tragic accident.”
A new daily record has been hit for illegal boat migrants crossing the English Channel, with Brexit leader Nigel Farage warning the United Kingdom should stop waiting for France to solve the migrant crisis and start getting tough like Australia.
MADRID (AP) – Spain’s health minister signed an order Friday granting single women, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people access to medically assisted reproduction in the public health system, where it is performed free of charge.
Pope Francis received Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican Thursday for what was described as a “cordial” meeting between the two leaders.
An NHS electrician has admitted to murdering two women in 1987 and the sexual abuse of at least 80 female corpses, whose ages ranged from a girl aged nine to a 100-year-old woman, with police suspecting there may be hundreds of more victims.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama will jet into Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a lightning visit to the COP26 climate conference. While there he will tell “old folks” to clear the way for the younger generation one week after 78-year-old President Joe Biden addressed the same gathering.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – While people are now able to travel freely in Australia’s more populated east, COVID-19-free Western Australia will maintain its tight restrictions into next year, state leaders said Friday.
An 18-year-old migrant from Morocco has pleaded not guilty to raping a woman on the steps of the Copenhagen court where he is set to face trial for the alleged attack.
LONDON (AP) – Yorkshire chairman Roger Hutton has resigned in the fallout from former player Azeem Rafiq’s racism allegations against the English cricket club, citing an unwillingness by the club to accept the claims and a refusal to apologize.
Syrian nationals were picked up off the coast of the French island of Corsica late Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning after setting off from Turkey to reach Europe.
The Council of Europe had dropped its pro-hijab Twitter campaign after a backlash in France, with French politicians saying it conflicted with the country’s secular values and that it promoted Islamism and the enslavement of women.
A 31-year-old African migrant from the Ivory Coast was badly electrocuted after trying to escape a check by French police by climbing onto the roof of a train.
Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam warned that climate change would end in men’s female relatives being gang-raped in front of them in a 2019 pamphlet, it has been revealed.
As with so many other world leaders, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing one of his toughest political challenges due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
Leftist MP Claudia Webbe was let off with a suspended sentence by what she had condemned as a “white court” after being convicted of harassment, including making an acid threat.
The former head of a Muslim school in Sweden is accused of scamming millions of Swedish kronor from taxpayers and funnelling the cash to Somalia where it funded an Islamist group.
Owen Paterson MP has resigned after a trumped-up scandal in which he was accused of bringing parliament into disrepute.
Climate-related disasters and deaths have been decreasing steadily over the last hundred years, despite tales of dread and woe from alarmists, climate expert Bjorn Lomborg writes in the Wall Street Journal Thursday.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson took a private jet from Glasgow to London for a reunion dinner with his former Telegraph colleagues at an exclusive private members’ club, according to reports.
Helsinki’s local government has decided that as of next year it will no longer be serving meat at city events after recommendations from its climate team manager.
Hundreds of bodies have been discovered in mass graves in Tarhuna, Libya, following the liberation of the city from the militias of General Khalifa Haftar, the Vatican’s L’Osservatore Romano newspaper announced Wednesday.
The government is believed to be announcing next week that vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus will be mandatory for the NHS’s more than one million staff members in England, according to reports.
LONDON (AP) – Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck’s coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to OK the treatment, although it was not immediately clear how quickly the pill would be available.
A 30-year-old Turkish national has been accused of deliberately running down a group of German schoolchildren in Hesse, leaving an eight-year-old girl dead and two other girls seriously injured.
Over thirty eco-warriors are facing up to two years in prison for allegedly violating an injunction against disruptive motorway protests, the far-left Insulate Britain group has revealed.
A French court on Wednesday fined seven people for a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse on social media aimed at the runner-up of the latest Miss France contest.
Meghan Markle and her husband Prince Harry have pledged that their charitable foundation Archewell will reach net-zero carbons emissions by 2030, prompting criticisms of the pair’s not-so-environmentally friendly jet-setting travel habits.
Pope Francis sent a striking message to the U.N. Climate Conference in Glasgow Wednesday, in which he compared the effects of climate change to those of World War II.
Scotland has placed twelve violent or sexually offending transgender prisoners in women’s jails over the past year and a half, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Two London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) officers have admitted in court to taking inappropriate pictures of murdered sisters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman, allegedly referring to the victims at the time of the incident as the “two dead birds”.
(AFP) — On a dark autumn evening, first-timers arriving for self-defence classes at Urban Fit and Fearless are asked if they have had any past traumas before they start training.
A survey has revealed that only one in every four Swedes trust the mainstream media reporting on climate change, despite a majority believing that it is man-made.
An Israeli minister was unable to attend the UN’s COP26 climate summit in Glasgow earlier this week because of her wheelchair, prompting furor and a belated apology by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) – The chief international representative in Bosnia is warning that the war-scarred Balkan nation could face the biggest “existential threat of the post-war period” if the international community does not curb threatened separatist actions by Bosnian Serbs.
Joe Biden perhaps took in more of the local sights while in Scotland than he may have wished after reports of a large, naked, Scottish man taking pictures of the U.S. president’s motorcade while it was travelling between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
