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The European Union has increased its estimates for the so-called Brexit “divorce bill” to almost £41 billion, as Britain and Europe clash over fishing and Northern Ireland. 

French Migrant transport NGO SOS Mediterranee has demanded port access to drop off 572 migrants, claiming that food supplies are running low aboard the vessel.

Moldovan voters vote this weekend in a election that could decide whether the former Soviet republic embraces pro-Western reforms.

A train carrying dozens of schoolchildren derailed Friday in the Austrian Alps, and a carriage ended up on its side in a river.

Paris police on Thursday arrested American singer Lil Baby for allegedly “carrying drugs”, police sources said.

Danyal Hussein, 19, has been found guilty of murdering two sisters in a Wembley park in order to fulfil his satanic pact to “sacrifice” six women every six months in exchange for winning the lottery.

Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Friday he backs a pub’s plan to offer free beers to anyone who had just received their coronavirus vaccination nearby.

Boris Johnson and General Carter are among those who have voiced concerns about the legacy of 20 years of war in Afghanistan.

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and wife of the heir to the throne, Prince Charles, has said she “can’t wait to get rid of” masks.

Boris Johnson had wanted Sir Graham Brady ousted as chairman of an influential committee of Conservative MPs over his outspoken objections to the prime minister’s lockdown strategy, a British broadcaster claims.

Dutch police have arrested three suspects in connection with the shooting of veteran crime journalist Peter R de Vries, who was shot in the centre of Amsterdam earlier this week.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff made her debut on the French high-fashion scene in Paris on Wednesday. Emhoff walked the runway for the fashion company Balenciaga in its first haute couture show since 1967.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson was caught maskless in a car with other passengers despite claiming earlier this week that it was “common sense” and “courtesy” to wear a mask in a confined space with others.

Ukrainian First Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzhaparova on Wednesday claimed the Russian military is deploying nuclear weapons and their related infrastructure to the occupied Crimean Peninsula.

A band of artists joined forces in Denmark to create what is believed to be the world’s biggest sandcastle, which stands at 69.4 feet tall.

The vaccination rate in Britain has almost halved, with concerns being expressed about young people possibly hesitating to take them — but the number of people with Covid antibodies is already estimated at around 90 per cent. 

A President Erdogan-critical journalist living in exile in Germany was attacked outside his home by men who warned him to stop writing.

An astonishing 83 per cent of Britons have said that if wearing a mask in public were a “personal choice”, they would do so, after another recent poll revealed that despite the mask mandate possibly coming to an end this month, the majority back it staying in place and even feel unsafe without them.

Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson has claimed that mass migration and “imported crime” has destroyed his country after a police officer was recently shot dead in a no-go zone.

Norway’s Telenor is selling its subsidiary in Myanmar, where it is one of the major operators, as a result of the military coup.

Over two-thirds of Millenials and Generation Z in the UK would prefer to live under a socialist economic system than the free market system.

Members of the public have generously donated more than £30,000 to the Batley Grammar School teacher who was forced into hiding after showing his class cartoons of the Islamic prophet, Mohammed.

Patrick Chaimovitch, a member of the Europe Ecology – The Greens (EELV) and the mayor of Colombes, has been fined €3,000 (£2,564/$3,547) after he claimed French police acted like members of the Vichy regime.

Members of the European Parliament (EP) denounced Hungary’s ban on LGBT propaganda for children, arguing Wednesday the law poses a “threat to democracy and fundamental rights.”

Jakov Milatovic, economy minister of Montenegro, said on Wednesday that his government is negotiating with “a number of Wesetern banks from Europe and the United States” to refinance almost a billion dollars in loans taken out from Chinese banks to finance a lavish road construction project. 

The UK laid out its blueprint for ending lockdown, but its own chief medical officer has said he foresees no return to normal until 2022.

There is no statistical basis for the claim Spike Lee made that black people are being “hunted” with impunity by the police. Indded, 93 percent of black murders are committed by black civilians against black victims, not by police officers gunning for black citizens.

Another car company has pledged further investment in Brexit Britain’s car plants, after Vauxhall owner Stellantis announced it would be investing £100 million to build electric vehicles at its Cheshire plant.

Far-left MP Claudia Webbe apparently stumped herself by her own question as she attempted to grill Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab.

Egypt is set to release the MV Ever Given over 100 days since the megaship was refloated after blocking the Suez Canal for six days.

Luis Badilla, editor of the semi-official Vatican news aggregator Il Sismografo, said Wednesday that Pope Francis’ health situation is “severe” and when he returns from hospital he “will never be the same again.”

Swedish prosecutors have demanded life in prison for the Afghan migrant who injured seven people during a stabbing spree in Vetlanda.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage doubts that the British government will follow through in imprisoning migrants who enter the country illegally, saying the only way to stop the crisis in the English Channel is to turn the boats back to France.

The BBC is facing a “crisis” as one million households in the UK have stopped paying the television tax over the past two years.

Authorities at a British military base on Cyprus have hired 50% more customs officers and procured detection equipment.

Three of the four Afghan migrants suspected of raping and murdering a 13-year-old Austrian girl had their asylum claims declined. But due to appeal proceedings, they were not deported.