Germans protesting against the country’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions clashed with police on Sunday, as the government looks to crack down on encrypted messaging apps used to organise the demonstrations.
Up to 5,000 cancer cases a month could be missed in the UK as a result of the government’s vaccination push.
Britain’s governing Conservative Party is claiming, not for the first time, that it will reform human rights rules with a new British Bill of Rights, after judges blocked the removal of a murderer and several paedophiles.
Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage has declared that Conservative MPs must rebel against the government during the Tuesday vote on Covid passes.
A Polish border guard was injured over the weekend when a group of approximately 50 migrants attempted to storm the Polish border with Belarus, attacking the border guards with rock and stones. The incident took place near the village of Czeremsza
The number of people with Omicron in UK hospitals according to Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab has been revised down from 250 to ten, with government officials claiming the minister had “misspoke” in earlier interviews.
Following a widespread rebellion from the Conservative Party backbenches, it is likely that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will need to rely on Labour Party votes to pass his latest round of coronavirus restrictions.
Several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks.
Seven migrants were killed and three others injured when the vehicle they were traveling in crashed into a house while fleeing a police stop.
Durham Cathedral is insisting on Covid passes for its Christmas services. But some are asking whether this is what Jesus would have wanted.
Nigeria’s aviation ministry announced plans on Sunday to ban incoming flights from the United Kingdom (U.K.), Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina starting this week in retaliation for flight bans on Nigeria ordered by those countries in recent days to prevent the spread of Omicron, a new coronavirus variant.
The Chinese Embassy in France has put out a song attacking American democracy, in a move that has sparked confusion and mockery online. The Chinese embassy in France has become embroiled in an online storm of puzzlement and mockery after
Former Danish Migration Minister Inger Støjberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison after being convicted of illegally separating child brides from migrant men in 2016.
Conservative lockdown-sceptic MP Steve Baker has accused Boris Johnson’s government of creating a “miserable dystopia” in pushing for new coronavirus restrictions.
(AFP) — After nine years deployed in Mali, France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country.
Britain’s Health Secretary Sajid Javid has revealed that the double-vaccinated will no longer be entitled to Covid passes “once all adults have had a reasonable chance to get their booster jab”.
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – Cyprus will start vaccinating kids between the ages of 5 to 11, the government said Monday in fresh bid to head off another COVID-19 surge following the first confirmed cases of the omicron variant on the eastern Mediterranean island nation.
Britain’s health secretary has admitted that some patients will not be able to get routine appointments with their GPs and some supposedly non-urgent surgeries could be postponed to 2022 as the NHS pivots to prioritise administering Covid boosters over other forms of healthcare.
Leaders of police forces in the United Kingdom are considering “publicly admitting” that “institutional racism” exists within their forces.
Author J.K. Rowling continued her crusade against radical transgender ideology Sunday when she publicly scolded Scottish police for documenting male rapists as “women.”
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union foreign ministers met Monday to discuss how to thwart the threat of a possible new Russian invasion of Ukraine and what measures to take should Moscow decide to send its troops across the border.
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been coaching Britain’s leftist Labour Party on how best to take power during the next election.
The head of the European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE) warned EU politicians this weekend that belittling Christians only serves to drive them toward populist parties.
MOSCOW (AP) – A homemade bomb detonated in a school attached to an Orthodox convent has wounded 12 people, including a 15-year-old, Russian authorities were reported as saying said Monday.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has condemned using the term ‘snowflake’ to refer to “younger generations” who are concerned about “the safety and protection of minorities”.
Boris Johnson appeared to issue a veiled threat to citizens that failing to “get boosted” as a matter of urgency could see their “freedoms” and “way of life” taken away in an address to the nation.
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Western European governments of having embarked on a grand exercise in “human experimentation” by “mixing huge masses of Muslims with indigenous Christians” in the hope that “something good would come of it”.
PARIS (AP) – France has opened 400 investigations into networks providing fake COVID-19 health passes, the interior minister said Sunday, as virus-related hospitalizations rise sharply across the country.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a rebellion from his Cabinet if he tries to introduce harsher coronavirus restrictions in England if the new restrictions the government plans to bring in on the 15th of December fail to decrease Covid cases.
ROME, Italy — Pope Francis offered prayers for Ukraine on Sunday urging “serious international dialogue” amid mounting fears of a possible Russian invasion.
VIENNA (AP) – Children from 5 to 11 years old will be eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses this week in Berlin, health officials said Sunday, joining other German states in opening up appointments to younger children.
Abdul Elahi, a serial blackmailer who targeted 2,000 victims online, forcing them to self-harm and engage in paedophilic activity, was jailed after admitting 158 charges committed against 72 victims.
Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish populist party VOX, met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a common front against communism, saying patriots across the Atlantic should be united.
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan described social media Saturday as one of the main threats to democracy.
Serb politicians have taken the first steps towards seceding from Muslim-majority Bosnia and Herzegovina in a move that could see the return of ethnic violence in the Balkans.
French hip-hop musician Doc Gynéco was arrested by police this week after allegations that the 47-year-old sexually abused a girl as young as twelve.
Guardian columnist Owen Jones has hailed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ex-chief advisor Dominic Cummings as “Big Daddy Cum Cum” on Twitter. Owen Jones made these comments after Dominic Cummings, a key figure in campaign to leave the European Union and
A 31-year-old man has been arrested for murder following a gang-related shooting in the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka last year that left a 12-year-old girl dead. The 31-year-old was finally taken into custody on Tuesday for the shooting, which saw
Tehran – “No, my cat is not dangerous,” says Iranian animal lover Mostafa, outraged by a proposal from ultraconservative lawmakers to ban pets.
15 EU member-states have agreed to take in nearly 40,000 migrants from Afghanistan, with over half being taken in by Germany alone.
