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French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has criticised the Biden administration after the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, stating it is unable to defend the free world.

German authorities said rescue teams are still searching for two people who were swept off a bridge by sudden floods the previous day.

Imperial College London’s Professor Neil Ferguson had predicted there could be a “large wave of infection” once children go back to school and white-collar workers return to their offices this Autumn, in the latest doom scenario offered by one of the architects of Britain’s lockdown policies.

The German Chancellor decried the Afghan war as having been “in vain” while President Macron said it must not become a hub of terrorism. 

A lawyer who represented Shamima Begum has drawn criticism after seemingly celebrating the capture of Kabul by the Islamist Taliban forces.

Climate change could make penises smaller but it’s OK because you too can learn to live with a smaller penis.

The British government will scrap border requirements for passports for Afghan asylum seekers attempting to flee to Britain, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Monday.

President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of American forces in Afghanistan has been branded a “total failure” by Brexit leader Nigel Farage.

Mandatory vaccines will have a “serious, damaging effect on people’s employment rights”, Claire Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, has warned.

The UK has been talking to the Taliban, the UK defence secretary has said, as he defended President Biden’s handling of the withdrawal.

Video emerged from Afghanistan early Monday morning showing large crowds of Afghans crossing the tarmac of Kabul International Airport, apparently trying to board a taxiing U.S. Air Force transport plane.

Three women and one man have been hospitalised after a suspected shooting in the London borough of Camden on Saturday.

Australia announced Monday it is despatching an “air bridge” to Afghanistan designed to combine military, customs, immigration and consular staff to extract hundreds of people from the volatile capital Kabul.

The ad boycott launched against Nigel Farage and GB News is likely to backfire, as a poll found that many would be likely to watch.

A paedophile who sexually assaulted a pre-teen girl in Manchester has been spared prison by a judge who praised his “strong academic capabilities” and “prospect of a bright and successful future”.

British police want to trawl gun owners’ social media for wrongthink after the Plymouth ‘incel’ shooting. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?

The Swedish government has taken the children of five Islamic State women into custody after the women were deported back to the country from Turkey.

Prime Minister Johnson claimed as recently as last month that “there is no military path to victory for the Taliban” in Afghanistan.

ROME — Pope Francis called for an end to armed violence in Afghanistan Sunday, urging Christians to pray for peace in the country.

A Syrian migrant has been awarded 840,000 Swedish kronor (£70k/$96k) in damages after a court mistakenly tried him as an adult in a case involving kidnapping and rape.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed the deaths of over 400 British soldiers in Afghanistan was not “in vain” as the Taliban retook the country from the Western-backed regime in Kabul.

Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the alleged arsonists behind the fires.

Boris Johnson will recall parliament in order to debate Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest blunder “since Suez”.

The British government has confirmed that it has “already resettled over 3,300 Afghan staff and their families” in the United Kingdom as the Taliban is poised to overrun the country.

An MP has told Breitbart News that her Lithuania will protect the “border of democracy” from a weaponised flow of African and Middle Eastern migrants from Belarus.

Greek police arrested three members of a people-trafficking ring on suspicion of supplying migrants with fake coronavirus documents intended to allow them to fly to other European countries.

Taliban officials said Sunday they have no plans to take the Afghanistan capital Kabul “by force” even as fighters began entering the besieged city and a host of nations including the U.S. began speeding up the evacuation of nationals, diplomats and local support staff.

French police have arrested a young Algerian man after a migrant died off the coast of Dunkirk during an attempt to cross the English Channel.

New Zealand’s parliament took a historic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in response to Green Party lobbying, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brushing the incident off with a flat “I don’t care.” 

British intelligence services have reportedly determined that UK jihadis have travelled to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban.

BERLIN (AP) – Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a licence to distribute its German-language service via satellite.

The incel gunman who killed five people in Plymouth, England reportedly had his gun licence returned to him by local police last month.

So far this year, more than 4,000 asylum-seekers from 40 countries, most of them Iraqi, have illegally crossed from Belarus into Lithuania. That’s 50 times more than during all of 2020.

Several European Union member-states have criticised a move by Sweden and others to halt deportations to Afghanistan, saying that it could encourage Afghans to try and come to Europe.

(AFP) — Australia’s biggest city announced tighter Covid restrictions including heavier fines and tighter policing on Saturday as authorities battled to contain a Delta outbreak and said they were seeing the “most concerning day of the pandemic” so far.

Berlin Senator Elke Breitenbach has denied a possible honour motive in the case of an Afghan woman who was allegedly murdered by her brothers who disapproved of her Western way of life.