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Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin told the United Nations Sunday that human inaction has been at the root of global warming, which is in turn causing disease and extreme weather.

BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.

The Lancet has been accused of dehumanising women after using the phrase “bodies with vaginas” to describe the fairer sex.

ROME (AP) – Voters in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, voted Sunday whether to decriminalize abortion, with the Roman Catholic Church firmly opposed and the ‘Yes’ camp hoping to make the procedure legal in some circumstances.

Pope Francis urged Christians Saturday to seek deeper unity in common faith and to “have the audacity to be one.”

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle strode to center stage in New York City’s Central Park on Saturday afternoon to urge wealthy nations with power and privilege to share their good fortune by expediting distribution of the coronavirus vaccine to those less fortunate.

Seven far-left extremist Antifa militants have been taken arrested in the city of Lyon for allegedly physically assaulting a man at a protest against vaccine passports late last month.

A 49-year-old Islamic State woman has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of taking part in serious war crimes in Syria, including forcing her own son to become a child soldier.

LONDON (AP) – Slumped helplessly on the ropes, Anthony Joshua greeted the final bell — and what he knew was the end of his second reign as world heavyweight champion — with a wry smile.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin compared the urgency of fighting the environmental crisis to that of the coronavirus pandemic.

Boris Johnson’s government plans visas for 5,000 foreign drivers to meet demand, despite coronavirus lockdowns having put many British people out of work  — with a senior Tory MP suggesting Afghans be used.

ITV’s reality TV show I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! has been blamed for triggering a lockdown — which has affected thousands of Australians — after a crew member contracted the Chinese coronavirus.

The United Kingdom is currently suffering severe gas shortages. And I know just the person who could have sorted it out, if only people had listened to him…

Parents in Wigan, England, have been left fearful as male migrants hosted in a local hotel are accused of roaming the community harassing underage girls and filming them through schoolyard fences.

China released the two Canadians known as the ‘Two Michaels’ after the U.S. dropped charges against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou.

A former radical Islamic Salafist preacher says that radicalism is present in every Swedish mosque and that Salafism is becoming more and more popular with younger people.

GENEVA (AP) – Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.

A pair of Tunisian illegal migrants have been accused of sexually harassing a pair of sisters aged 18 and 15 after they managed to escape a migrant reception facility.

The number of 100-year-olds in the United Kingdom hit a record high in the year to mid-2020, despite the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. 

Unvaccinated Austrian populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader Herbert Kickl could be banned from attending large political events as the city of Vienna tightens its Wuhan virus rules.

Extinction Rebellion offshoot Insulate Britain has widened its disruptive tactics to other parts of England, this time blockading the Port of Dover and demanding a “Churchillian response” to alleged manmade climate change.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government has pledged to refund families their income taxes in 2022, around €1.7 billion (£1.45 billion/$2 billion).

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes the mass migration agenda is part of a “global plan” to create a “new proletariat” in the West, advanced by people who care nothing for culture and national identity and consider only economics.

Social distancing could return in the Winter if there is a “significant uptick” in hospital admissions for the Chinese coronavirus, but a “full-blown lockdown” is unlikely, Professor Neil Ferguson has said.

A British court decided Thursday against a young woman with Down syndrome who challenged a law permitting the abortion of children with her condition up to birth.

French Islamic State “squad leader” and recruiter Tyler Vilus was sentenced to life in prison by a French appeals court this week for crimes he committed while with the terrorist group in Syria. The Special Assize Court of Paris sentenced

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised Boris Johnson for returning from his first in-person meeting with Joe Biden without hopes of starting negotiations for a trade agreement, remarking that a deal should have been struck during the Donald Trump administration.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has praised the efforts of national conservative governments in Central Europe to reverse demographic decline through pro-family policies over mass migration in Budapest.

Merkel was met with boos and whistles at a campaign event alongside her successor Armin Laschet in her home constituency just days before Germans go to the polls.  

Nigel Farage has again been vindicated in his predictions that the European Union wanted its own defence force following reports that France was willing to trade its seat on the UN Security Council to Brussels in exchange for an EU army.

Former British defence minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really should have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.

The French government has announced that it will be allocating €1 billion for the healthcare of illegal immigrants in its 2022 budget, a figure that has doubled since 2015.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday vowed the “response will be strong” to an apparent assassination attempt against his top aide, Serhiy Shefir. Zelensky worked his furious response to the attack on Shefir into his fiery address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Wednesday afternoon.

Pope Francis blamed consumerism and mindless secular groupthink Wednesday for Europe’s loss of the sense of God’s presence.

Oxford University’s Worcester College issued an apology this week after the school hosted a Christian conference, one of whose speakers assists people dealing with gender confusion.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has urged conservative justices on the Supreme Court of the United States to “take action to restore the sanctity of human life to the centre of American law” at a conference on demographics in Hungary.