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LONDON (AP) – Britain’s health minister says he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing mild symptoms.

A Scottish policewoman who believed she was being chased by a drone was left red-faced when she fled back to her station, where senior officers told her the pursuing object was in fact the planet Jupiter.

Athletes should avoid “divisive” political statements during the Tokyo Olympics, the president of the International Olympic Committee said.

(AP) — The British women’s soccer team will take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – European nations are scrambling to ramp up vaccination drives, using a carrot-and-stick approach to persuade the reluctant to get their shots as the more transmissible delta variant drives a surge in infections.

French businesses that do not check people for vaccine passports, the so-called “health pass”, could face fines of up to €45,000 and a year in prison under a proposed new French law.

Pope Francis cracked down on conservative Catholics on Friday, repealing inclusive measures by his predecessors Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI and imposing restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass.

Police have said that graffiti sprayed on a mural of Marcus Rashford after the England football player missed a penalty in the Euro 2020 finals against Italy is “not believed to be of a racial nature”, contradicting BBC reporting.

The Spanish publication Diario de Cuba revealed on Friday that Spain’s economic records show sales of over 1.2 million Euros ($1.4 million) to the communist Castro regime in military equipment, including automatic weapons.

Communist Cuba has engaged in a massive campaign of radio jamming this week, as protesting Cuban citizens took to the airwaves — often with homemade radios — to get news in and out of the country after the regime turned off the internet.

The prime minister and his chief medical officer gave rather mixed messages within hours of each other over whether the UK is likely to face another wave of coronavirus.

Greek Interior Minister Makis Voridis has announced that civil servants who refuse to take the now-mandatory Wuhan coronavirus vaccine will be disciplined.

MI5 has recorded 10,000 instances of foreign spies from hostile foreign powers making “disguised approaches” to British citizens.

The government of Iraq has pledged to investigate an alleged “plan to smuggle Iraqis into Europe” as the EU border state of Lithuania experiences a mini migrant crisis along its frontier with Belarus.

The Andrew Neil-run ‘anti-woke’ GB News reportedly had zero viewers for some of its programmes after one of its hosts took the Black Lives Matter-inspired knee live on air.

This is a classic case of ‘bootleggers and baptists’: two apparently opposing groups agitating for the same cause.

The founder and chief executive officer of a wealth management fund has been suspended for allegedly taking advantage of the unrest in South Africa to loot alcoholic beverages and a washing machine, among other items. 

In the first six months of this year, at least 1,146 people have drowned in the Mediterranean as people smugglers resume operations to help migrants illegally cross the sea to Europe.

Armed community members and vigilante groups have stepped in to tackle unrest in South Africa, taking matters into their own hands.

Jewish people saw “the most intense period of anti-Jewish hate” in the UK in recent years, most of which involved language, behaviour, or imagery linked to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.

he South African government is deploying some 25,000 troops and calling up reserves as riots and looting continue to rock the country, primarily in the provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned Thursday nobody should relax in the face of future coronavirus threats, cautioning the strong likelihood that further, possibly more dangerous variants still lie ahead.

At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

Updated guidance from the British government advised that pubs, restaurants, and bars use the NHS’s COVID Pass app to screen customers, in another flip-flop from Boris Johnson on passports for pints.

Austria has become the first country in the European Union to ban the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood as part of a new anti-terrorism law.

Poland is set for a legal showdown with the European Union establishment after its top court rejected moves by EU judges to block judicial reforms in the country, and the government saying it is being mistreated by Brussels because it is a conservative government which “stands for Christian values”.

The director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)  begged China on Thursday to cooperate with the second phase of the investigation into the origins of coronavirus.

A Palestinian journalist who was fired by the BBC for a tweet claiming “Hitler was right” has accused the British public broadcaster of “capitulating” to the “whim of a pro-Israel mob.”

Dutch veteran crime journalist Peter R. de Vries died on Thursday, just over a week after he was shot point-blank on the streets of Amsterdam.   De Vries, 64, passed away Thursday after fighting for his life for just over a week

Britons should eat one-third less meat, and salt and sugar must be taxed, according to a review commissioned by the government, which also recommends subsidies from the taxpayer to promote the development of “alternative proteins”, which could include lab-grown meat.

BERLIN (AP) – More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.

European Commissioner Ylva Johansson has accused the Belarusian government of blackmailing the European Union and orchestrating mass migration across its border with the bloc.

Five times as many children died of suicide during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic in Britain as died of the virus itself.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry announced Wednesday they have have agreed to work on a second series for Netflix, with the animated project built around the adventures of a 12-year-old girl.

A British mosque leader, and father of two brothers who waged jihad in Syria, has been charged with suspicion of encouraging terrorism.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised the British government for acting as if it owned Britons’ liberty and warned that Monday will not be the so-called ‘Freedom Day’ as restrictions will return in the autumn.