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Thousands of anti-lockdown protesters converged in Central London on Saturday. Yet again, all too predictably, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media.

Authorities are searching for a woman who caused one of the biggest pile-ups in Tour de France history on Saturday.

Greek police arrested three far-left extremists in central Athens, and the arrests are said to be linked to the discovery and disposal of a suspicious package left in Scotland in 2018.

A French court sentenced Egyptian Abdalla El Hamahmi to 30 years in prison for his machete attack on two soldiers at the Paris Louvre museum in 2017.

The Verona Arena amphitheater in northern Italy has returned to staging full operas for the first time since the pandemic — but with one big difference.

An Afghan migrant raped a 25-year-old pregnant woman in an Athens neighbourhood, and when she begged for help from three Pakistanis, they raped her, too. 

Authorities also were looking at the possibility of the man having been radicalized as an Islamic extremist. Kallert said a store detective and police officers reported hearing the suspect say “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” Bavaria’s top security official, Joachim Herrmann, said that “further cautious indications” in that direction emerged from his questioning, without elaborating. Material with “hate messages” also was found but has yet to be evaluated, police said.

Matt Hancock has resigned as health minister following images leaked in the press showing the married Conservative MP kissing and embracing a female aide, which he admitted was in breach of lockdown guidance.

Three members of a people trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of Polish migrants to the UK and forced them into slavery have been convicted.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Treasury has unveiled a new special edition coin to commemorate the life of Prince Philip, who died in April at the age of 99.

A high-speed train was targeted by gunfire in Marseille, France, shortly before entering the Marseille-Saint-Charles railway station.

Matt Hancock is under pressure to resign as health secretary after footage appeared to reveal him having an affair with an aide.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has claimed that Hungary has no place in the Europan Union after he condemned the Hungarian government’s law on banning teaching LGBT ideology to children.

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country’s restive north.

There has been a sharp increase in parents bringing their children to NHS emergency rooms with mild illnesses and fevers because they are unused to seeing their children sick after more than a year of lockdowns.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is expected to back a proposal to replicate the widely criticised European Union migrant deal with Turkey in North Africa as migrant numbers continue to surge, primarily into Italy.

German authorities have not ruled out an Islamist motive, as one witness had reported hearing the suspect shout “Allahu akbar”.

The European Union has agreed to send at least €3 billion (£2.5 billion/$3.6 billion) over the next few years to Turkey for Syrian migrants and to help support border security.

The European Parliament voted Thursday in favor of a report describing abortion as “essential healthcare” and a “human right.”

Bird handlers in the UK are distraught and dumbfounded by the sudden and unprecedented disappearance of 5,000 homing pigeons that were racing across the country.

At least three people have died with several more injured after a knife-armed man rampaged through the German city of Würzburg, Bavaria. 

Amazon and Google are reportedly under investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority over concerns that the ongoing flood of fake five-star reviews on their websites is misleading consumers.

Australia’s competition watchdog is reportedly investigating a claim that Facebook has refused a publisher’s request to negotiate a licensing deal, the first major test of the country’s recently passed that that forces the Masters of the Universe to negotiate payment deals with news publishers.

This is bad news, obviously, for Hancock’s wife and children. But it’s great news for everyone else…

Matt Hancock apologised for breaching “social distancing guidance” after pictures emerged allegedly showing the married health secretary kissing his female aide.

A senior minister has said he will stop wearing a mask “as soon as possible”, in remarks likely signalling the Cabinet’s confidence that all lockdown restrictions will be lifted on July 19th.

Police arrested two women in connection to an e-scooter accident that resulted in the fatal injury of a 31-year-old woman who was robbed as she lay in the street in Paris.

Voters in Gibraltar have endorsed legislative changes that will ease the British territory´s current ban on abortion.

Meet Sir David King, climate jackal. He and his fellow scavengers are moving in to feed on the denuded carcass of our freedoms.

An increase in prescribing antidepressants to children in England peaked with each of the three national lockdowns during the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, an analysis of data claims.

Two Catholic churches on First Nations reservations in British Columbia are the latest churches burned down this month under what police have claimed are suspicious circumstances.

Honduras officially moved its embassy to Jerusalem in an inauguration ceremony attended by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and visiting Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, becoming the fourth country to do so.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government proposed legislation on Wednesday, Bill C-36, that is aimed at combating “hate speech” and “hate propaganda.”

A mailman in Leicestershire, England, asked Facebook users Monday to help him find the mother of a child who wrote a Father’s Day letter to her dad in Heaven.

The British government has undercounted the number of European Union migrants living in the country by over two million.

The Court of Milan has convicted ten people who were part of a network that defrauded the Italian state of millions of euros while managing funds for migrant reception NGOs.