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Hot on the heels of Millenials rediscovering traditional glass bottles instead of plastic, the UK may next bring back electric roads. 

The CEO of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has defended the charity’s operations picking up boat migrants in the English Channel as “humanitarian work of the highest order”.

The Jewish founders of Ben & Jerry’s said they “unequivocally support” the ice cream maker’s move to boycott Israeli settlements in the West Bank, calling it “one of the most important decisions the company has made in its 43-year history.”

A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.

Two Afghan migrants were arrested in Rennes, France, after allegedly stabbing a man near a metro station and sexually assaulting the victim’s ex-girlfriend.

A Conservative MP has suggested that if lockdown returns, it will be the fault of people who declined vaccines getting ill and clogging up the NHS.

Joyous members of the Fiji rugby side that won gold at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday climbed the winner’s stand and offered prayers of thanks and a hymn to commemorate the occasion.

The huge container ship that blocked the Suez Canal earlier this year finally reached the Netherlands on Thursday to begin unloading cargo.

Charlie Hebdo stabbing victim Hatun Tash said that Speakers’ Corner has become unsafe for Christians as a result of the “Muslim mob”

Prosecutors have charged an Iranian national for war crimes and murder over his role in mass executions on behalf of the Iranian Islamist regime in 1988.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has suggested that vaccines may be needed for “mass events” and travel, in what appears to be more targeted attempts to force young people to be vaccinated.

The loneliness epidemic which has stalked Britain for years has intensified during the government-mandated lockdown, research suggests.

Rescue teams in Germany continued searching for missing workers at an industrial park where an explosion killed at least two people.

Reform UK leader Richard Tice has called Michael Gove a hypocrite for calling people who decide not to be vaccinated “selfish”.

The EU Commission agreed to a “standstill” on legal action against the UK over alleged breaches of the Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol.

A court has sentenced a 52-year-old man to a suspended jail term after he destroyed a portrait of French President Emmanuel Macron in the city hall during a protest.

Former Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott should be tapped to head up the UK’s illegal boat migration strategy, Nigel Farage has said.

A Labour peer who described herself as a “liberal” says that young people “need a little bit of coercion” in the form of forced vaccinations to attend university.

Location-based homosexual and heterosexual hookup apps are widely used within Vatican walls, an investigative report revealed late Tuesday, which can lend itself to blackmail and other security risks.

Amid the recent spate of warm weather in the English Channel, thousands of prospective illegal boat migrants have amassed in Northern France.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage’s show on GB News beat Sky News every night it aired in the first week of broadcast.

At least 57 people have drowned off the coast of Libya after another boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, as people smugglers continue to operate in the area.

Boris Johnson announced that the government will seek to empower police with the ability to stop and search people to tackle knife crime.

ROME — The Vatican opened a criminal trial Tuesday against a high-level cardinal and nine other defendants accused of criminal mismanagement of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets.

The Austrian federal government has sent an additional 400 soldiers to the border with Hungary as the number of illegal migrant crossings has surged this year.

Counter-terrorism police are investigating a stabbing in Speakers’ Corner in which a woman wearing a Charlie Hebdo t-shirt was stabbed.

To the confusion of scientists, the number of new coronavirus cases has fallen for the sixth day in a row in the UK post-Freedom Day. However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has cautioned the country was “not out of the woods yet”.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing.

Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald expressed her “solidarity” with the communist regime in Cuba, hailing the “just cause” of communism.

Pope Francis urged a United Nations meeting on food security to prioritize the agricultural sector in the post-pandemic global “reset.”

Conservative Spanish People’s Party leader Pablo Casado joined a protest against the Cuban government, stating that the Cuban regime was a “dictatorship”.

Imports from the Chinese slave labour region of Xinjiang have more than doubled to the European Union since the beginning of the year.

Fewer than half of young people in the UK are wearing masks since ‘Freedom Day’, with the demographic having the sharpest decline in mask use out of all age groups.

Mass migration has driven Britain’s foreign-born population to nine million and the ethnic minority population to 13 million in just 20 years, according to new estimates from Migration Watch UK.

Since the start of the year, the number of people using Finland’s Wuhan coronavirus tracking app has fallen from 2.4 million to 1.8 million, representing around a quarter of users.

Despite widespread protests, the law requires everyone over the age of 12 to have a health pass for basic life activities.