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A police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found in woods.

Kent County Council (KCC) has threatened to sue the Home Office to force other councils in England to take in child migrants amid claims that Kent’s services are at the “breaking point”. The Conservative Party controlled council, which is the

The British government has reached agreements with leading dating apps to encourage younger people to take coronavirus vaccines, through offering incentives and the ability for users to tout their vaccination status to their prospective romantic flings. Starting on Monday, Tinder, Match,

The administration of President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday that he has scheduled a meeting with Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for June 14, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Brussels that day.

LONDON (AP) – The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator says the bloc is ready to act “firmly and resolutely” if the U.K. fails to honor its commitments under the divorce deal that was supposed to keep trade flowing after Britain

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s “roadmap to freedom” is set to be postponed by two weeks to a month, a report from a leading British newspaper claimed. A reportedly “downbeat” briefing given to government ministers by chief medical officer Chris Whitty

Several of the world’s most trafficked websites were inaccessible Tuesday morning, with many impacted sites showing 503 errors. 

The National-conservative Brothers of Italy led by Giorgia Meloni have proposed banning communism using the nation’s anti-Fascism law.  

A radical Islamist organisation, which calls for the reinstatement of the caliphate and the global sharia law has resurfaced in Britain.

Members of the White House press corps pressed National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday on whether President Joe Biden would tell foreign leaders that former President Donald Trump’s policies were an “anomaly.”

British Police are allowing thousands of sexual offenders, stalkers, and harassers to skirt prosecution in favour of out-of-court settlements, including apologies and stays in rehab. A series of freedom of information requests have revealed that police forces across the UK

A statue of Canadian educator Egerton Ryerson was toppled and beheaded by extremists who threw the statue in Toronto harbour. 

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government claims to have “turned the tide” against cancel culture even as a player on England’s national cricket team has been suspended for tweets sent as a teenager.

After signing onto Communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Italy has seen Chinese propaganda infiltrate its media apparatus.

The French Competition Authority recently announced that it has fined Google 220 million euros ($267 million) for abusing its market power in the online advertising industry.

The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to accuse President Joe Biden of deceiving him into thinking the White House would oppose Russia’s lucrative and highly strategic Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe, telling Axios in an interview published Sunday he was “unpleasantly surprised” when Biden did nothing to stop it.

Joe Biden has announced that he will meet with Prime Minister Boris Johnson in person prior to the meeting of the G7 nations this week.

As U.S. President Joe Biden makes final preparations for his trip to Europe, polling released Monday shows the United States’ reputation as the leading global power has suffered in France and Germany under his leadership as China has received a boost.

England’s national football (soccer) team remains “totally united” on kneeling for Black Lives Matter going into the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, but are being met with boos by fans.

Final results saw a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Merkel’s party in the last state election before a national vote in September.

Priti Patel has reportedly demanded that social media companies censor videos of illegal migrants as they “glamourise” the perilous journey.

(AFP) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced Sunday the birth of their daughter Lilibet Diana, who was born in California after a year of turmoil in Britain’s royal family.

The centre-right coalition led by populist League leader Matteo Salvini has reached 52 per cent in a poll released this week, while the largest leftist parties combined only reach 34 per cent.

The British government is reportedly planning on changing the law in order to force National Health Service (NHS) staff into taking the coronavirus vaccine, ostensibly to safeguard hospitals from future outbreaks.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

Pope Francis called for religious and political leaders to “shed light” on the discovery of the bodies of over 200 children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in western Canada.

Leader of the populist Sweden Democrats (SD) Jimmie Åkesson has claimed Sweden is in a “war-like state” and that the socialist government has “imported” crime and unemployment.

Tony Blair has called for vaccine apartheid in which the vaccinated get special privileges while the unvaccinated are treated as pariahs. Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, eyes glinting, skin looking almost unfeasibly orange, the former prime minister said: We

It is “time to distinguish” between the freedoms afforded to those who have been vaccinated against the coronavirus and those who haven’t, said former British prime minister Tony Blair.

A Moroccan migrant got a rare “emergency” deportation from France after he threatened to behead a member of France’s gendarmerie.

A migrant camp in Calais housing some 800 migrants was broken up by French police on Friday following reports of violence against officers.

The U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the USS Canberra, was christened Saturday in Mobile, Alabama, in a salute both to Australia’s capital city and the enduring alliance between the two nations in war and peace.

An LGBT police group has stated it will not be taking part in a Pride parade in Paris which is set to start in the no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, over fears regarding officer safety.

A British Muslim author has said that certain British towns have “no-go zones” for white people and that school children are attacked by Muslim children for “being white”, in an investigation into mosques in the United Kingdom.

A majority of politicians in the Danish parliament have voted for a proposal that could see Danish asylum claims processed in countries overseas by creating asylum reception centres abroad. The new proposal will make it legal for the Danish government