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SYDNEY (AP) – One of New Zealand’s best-known businessmen Ron Brierley was sentenced in a Sydney court on Thursday to 14 months in prison for possessing thousands of child sex abuse images.

Prince Charles should “stay out of politics”, said Nigel Farage after the heir to the throne expressed “understanding” for green activists.

The French government has issued a decree stating that it may block pornographic websites that are unable to verify that minors can not access their content.

Two drug dealers were arrested and 17 narcotics offences took place at the Palace of Westminster in the 12 months to March 2021, according to a freedom of information request.

Police arrested two Pakistani asylum seekers in the northern Italian city of Aosta for allegedly raping a 13-year-old boy in the public garden.

A statue of famed European explorer Christopher Columbus was vandalised on Tuesday in London, led by iconoclast leftist mayor Sadiq Khan.

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) – Hundreds of Bulgarian coal miners and energy workers staged a protest on Wednesday to demand government guarantees for their jobs amid bids by the European Union to close mines and reduce carbon emissions.

The Rolling Stones announced Tuesday the band will stop performing the hit song Brown Sugar, amid accusations the 50-year-old classic is linked to the subjugation of slaves.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia increased Wednesday after police in Kosovo clashed with ethnic Serbs during a police operation against the smuggling of goods. At least seven people were injured.

Obviously this is a headline that could have been written any time in at least the last 30 years. But someone needs to remind the toxic, airheaded nincompoop that he doesn’t speak for all of us. And since no one is going to say this anywhere in the fawning, worthless and obsolete legacy media, I guess the job will have to fall to me…

Furious business owners and members of the public dragged eco-extremists protesters off the road on Wednesday during more disruptive demonstrations by Extinction Rebellion offshoot Insulate Britain.

MADRID (AP) – Spain’s defence ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

The Australian police officers who sprayed an elderly woman in the face as she was on the ground with pepper spray are under investigation.

(AFP) — Afghanistan’s new Taliban government has warned U.S. and European envoys that continued attempts to pressure them through sanctions will undermine security and could trigger a wave of economic migrants.

A higher education trade union in Britain has drawn criticism for supporting its members to self-identify as another race.

Fishermen in Jersey have accused the French of piracy as tensions increase over France’s demands for more licences to trawl in British waters, with the Jersey fishermen saying that should the French attempt to blockade their port again, they will retaliate.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities said Wednesday that the number of migrants arriving in the country via Poland and Belarus has gone up in recent months.

German composers Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are among 45 historical figures whose names could be removed from city streets in Munich due to their political beliefs.

The British government has proposed an “entirely new” arrangement for trade with the EU on Northern Ireland, admitting that the agreement reached by the Tory government is “not working”.

John Atkinson, 28, spent more than an hour dying on the floor on the night of the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack before he was taken to hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds.

The public instances of crowds expressing their disapproval of President Joe Biden are continuing to grow not only in the U.S. but across the globe, as demonstrators shout “fuck Joe Biden!” from college football games in the U.S., all the way to protests in Rome. 

A global energy crisis is assailing the international economy just as the United Nations gears up to demand an end to cheap, affordable fossil fuels at its COP26 climate conference.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have moved into finance, becoming “impact partners” at fintech asset management firm Ethic which endeavours to invest only in ethical and environmentally-friendly companies.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has published a special report in anticipation of the COP26 Climate Change Conference, insisting that the “burning of fossil fuels is killing us.”

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said Tuesday she will step down as head of a three-party, minority centre-right government after a left-leaning bloc won last month´s parliamentary election. The leader of Norway´s Labor Party, Jonas Gahr Stoere, is expected to take over later this week.

Far-left Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haug stated this week that she will be meeting with the social media giant’s Oversight Board in the coming weeks. She is also scheduled to appear before the UK Parliament later this month.

Police have arrested a 19-year-old man in Marseille for entering a hospital using the QR code for French President Emmanuel Macron’s coronavirus passport.

The British government has embarked on a pressure campaign to make parents get their children vaccinated or potentially risk losing the ability for their kids to attend school in person.

“Within the lifetime of Prince George, much of Buckingham Palace could be underwater,” the Daily Mail reports Tuesday, citing a new climate change study.

French Communist Party (PCF) presidential candidate Fabien Roussel has called for those convicted of racism or hate crimes to be ineligible for public office.

A school in Leicestershire, England, has banned the terms “good” and “bad” to describe pupil behaviour because the headteacher wanted to remove “emotional words” from classroom management.

PARIS (AP) – A train hit and killed three people and seriously injured another person in south-western France on Tuesday morning. A local mayor said the victims were thought to be migrants who were resting on the tracks.

Vaccine passports for nightclubs, stadiums, and other large venues have come into effect in Wales after regional legislation passed in the Welsh parliament by just one vote last week.

LONDON (AP) – The British government waited too long to impose a lockdown in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, missing a chance to contain the disease and leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, a parliamentary report concluded Tuesday.

Twelve Nigerian men and two women were sentenced between two and nine years by a French court for trafficking at least forty women for sex, often using witchcraft and voodoo beliefs to control their victims.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Hundreds of protesters from climate group Extinction Rebellion blocked a busy intersection Monday near the temporary home of the Netherlands’ parliament, marking the start of a week of protests the group plans in The Hague before a UN climate conference that opens on Oct. 31.