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Pope Francis has advanced the cause for canonization of European statesman Robert Schuman, bringing him one step closer to sainthood.

The Italian city of Ventimiglia along the French border sees daily incidents of inter-ethnic migrant violence as hundreds attempt to cross into France.

Former British Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies took to social media Monday to criticize the International Olympic Committee for allowing a biological male to compete against women in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) has ruled that private user information, including IP addresses, names, and postal addresses can, under certain conditions, be handed over to intellectual property rights holders and other third parties that make copyright claims.

Parliament passed a motion of non-confidence in the left-led government, giving PM Löfven the choice to resign or call fresh elections. 

“…our country belongs at the top on climate protection and it must become better able to resist pandemics, cyberattacks, populism…”

Police descended on Stonehenge Monday morning to break up a meeting that contravened the government’s coronavirus lockdown regulations. 

The BBC has barred white people from applying for a trainee position in the latest example of ‘positive discrimination’ from the broadcaster.

A man who worked at a German university has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, allegedly passing information to Russian intelligence.

A government scientific advisor has signalled that Britons may not see the end of Chinese coronavirus restrictions in July, saying that the UK “may have to do further lockdowns this Winter”.

Priti Patel has ordered the Border Force to halt unconscious bias training courses for officers tasked with defending the nation’s borders.

Pope Francis called for greater openness to migrants and refugees Sunday, joining the United Nations in celebrating World Day of Refugees.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul could face fines of up to €10,000 (£8,590/$11,864) for referring to reading a conservative German newspaper as a sign of far-right extremism after a new court ruling.

The UK judicial system has failed to imprison one-third of convicted sexual offenders, including child predators, over the past seven years.

LISBON, Portugal — Portuguese authorities have confirmed suspicions that the new delta variant of the coronavirus is driving a spike in new cases in the Lisbon region.

Sweden’s Left Party has threatened to bring down the Social Democrat-led government in a confidence vote expected as early as Monday.

Pope Francis has joined the bishops of Myanmar (Burma) in calling for the opening of humanitarian corridors in conflict-torn Myanmar.

The German government responded Sunday to a rise in antisemitic attacks by banning flags of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

John Bercow has announced that he will be joining the Labour Party, with some suggesting the defection is a cynical ploy to secure a peerage.

A female Swedish priest and another woman have been found guilty of smuggling an asylum seeker out of a migrant detention centre by hiding him in a large suitcase.

VIENNA — Further talks between Iran and global powers were planned Sunday to try to negotiate and restore a landmark 2015 agreement to contain Iranian nuclear development that was later abandoned by the Trump administration.

Stonewall has told teachers in Britain to ditch the terms boys and girls and refer to pupils with the gender-neutral “learners”.

The U.N. General Assembly waived a democratic vote Friday and simply re-appointed Secretary General Antonio Guterres unopposed to another five-year term leading the peak globalist body.

ROME (AP) — An Italian court late Saturday convicted four African men in the drugging, aggravated sexual assault and murder of an Italian teen in Rome, a crime that spurred calls in Italy for quick expulsions of migrants illegally living in in the country, state TV and private Italian media said.

The main surviving defendant in the 2017 Champs-Élysées terror attack has been convicted for his role in the killing of a Paris police officer and sentenced to 10 years in prison — far below the 18 years requested by prosecutors.

The European bishops have reacted strongly to an attempt to have abortion recognized as a “human right,” insisting that the “unborn child has a human right to life.”

A leading Conservative lockdown-sceptic MP has said that Britain will need to learn to live with the Chinese virus rather than submit to the “doom-mongering” put forward by the likes of Professor Neil Ferguson.

LONDON (AP) — British police are hunting for a man who fired shots from an air gun and drove into people who had gathered at a central England pub to watch an England-Scotland soccer match.

French anti-terror police arrested six people, including a school principal, alleged to be far-left extremists, in connection with the sabotage of a communications tower.

Conservative MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy, it can be revealed after court reporting restrictions were lifted.

Immigrants from Muslim backgrounds have been far more affected by deadly cases of the Wuhan coronavirus than French natives, according to France’s National Institute for Demographic Studies.

The UK Border Force has reportedly been employing covert tactics including turning off tracking and radio systems while picking up migrants.

The recently-elected conservative government in Madrid has proposed giving expecting mothers €14,500 (£12,456/$17,203) in financial aid as an incentive to increase the Spanish birth rate.

PARIS (AP) — A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several others were also injured amid clashes as police tried to break up an unauthorized rave party in western France, authorities said Saturday.

A poll has revealed that 62 per cent of French people would support holding a nationwide referendum on the subject of limiting immigration to France.

“It’s more and more violent,” the police major said as he worked to reconstruct this week’s chain of events, from a clash in a pipe-smoking bar to a full-blown brawl between opposing groups from Pakistani and North African communities.