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Germany has banned the Islamic NGO Ansaar International after it was accused of sending money to terrorist groups in Syria and Somalia.

BEIRUT — France’s top diplomat wielded the threat of more sanctions in Beirut Friday to prevent what he described as a “collective suicide” organised by members of Lebanon’s ruling political class.

Local government in Leeds, England, is teaming up with publicly-funded Leeds University to expand a BLM-style statues review with a report titled ‘Decolonising Sculpture for Urban Social Justice’.

The proportion of people over the age of 16 who have experienced some form of depression has more than doubled since before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The new Tory leader in the town said of historically strong-Labour council seats that had gone blue, “The red wall has crumbled”.

Britain’s governing Conservative Party has gained another seat in the House of Commons by winning the Hartlepool constituency from Labour in a by-election.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that two Royal Navy ships will continue their watch over the waters around the British Crown Dependency of Jersey after dozens of French fishermen ended their protests over alleged fishing rights violations.

Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russian interference in the U.S. election in 2016 is now “beyond a doubt” and that Moscow was likely involved in the Brexit vote, too.

Pope Francis said Thursday that the Church of today is called to “widen her tent to embrace everyone,” especially migrants and foreigners.

Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris.

ROME — Pope Francis sent prayers and condolences to the people of India on Thursday when so many “are suffering as a result of the present health emergency,” in reference to the large number of coronavirus infections.

French anger around the British reclaiming their territorial waters post-Brexit and the British response to it took a bizarre turn as a tricorn-wearing re-enactor was seen firing a flintlock musket as French fishermen prepared to blockade a British port.

India’s foreign minister was forced to cut short his in-person attendance of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in London on Wednesday after two members of his delegation tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus.

The government has sent two Royal Navy gunships to monitor the situation in the waters of Jersey as some 60 French fishing vessels descended on the British Crown Dependency amidst a post-Brexit fishing dispute with France, which has threatened to cut the electricity to the English Channel island.

Marcia Walker, a male-to-female transgender child rapist in one of Britain’s maximum-security prisons has been freed despite admitting to attacking guards after they took her razors, preventing Walker from shaving. Walker, who was previously known as Mark Walker before claiming

A poll has revealed that the vast majority, 84 per cent, of French fear that social and economic difficulties among those aged 18 to 34 is resulting in increased violence and urban insecurity.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) and the man behind the U.N. agency’s stumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic, is ready to seek another five-year leadership term.

Representatives from the European Union’s 27 member states have approved Tenebrio molitor beetle larvae, also known as mealworms, as “innovative” food and suitable for human consumption.

Actors and musicians who are “prestigious award winners” will be at the front of the immigration queue, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said.

The German migrant taxi NGO Sea-Watch dropped off 454 migrants in the Sicilian port city of Trapani this week after Italian authorities granted the vessel port access.

A 24-year-old man from Spain climbed a two-story building to rescue an 80-year-old woman from what could have been a fatal fall, according to videos of the incident.

Pablo Iglesias, a far-left former television host on Iranian state television who served recently as Spain’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, often translated to English as “vice president,” announced his retirement from politics late Tuesday after a crushing defeat in Madrid’s regional elections.

The Tories have had exactly eleven years and what have they achieved that’s remotely conservative in that time? Nada. Zip. Zilch.

Facebook comms boss Sir Nick Clegg fell upwards to the role from his previous post as the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Reclaim Party candidate Leo Kearse warned that hate crime legislation will be used to target political rivals of the Scottish National Party.

The Conservatives should lead the way in pushing for an expansion of the voting franchise to children, Tory MP Tobias Ellwood said on Tuesday.

The French Council of State, the country’s top administrative court, is considering giving Muslims an exemption from the Wuhan coronavirus curfew during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. 

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has criticised the French government for threatening to cut off electricity to Jersey island over a fishing rights dispute, remarking that “if the French are prepared to behave like this then thank God we left” the European Union.

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday rejected pressure to lift a temporary ban on inbound flights from India, saying any early resumption of arrivals from that coronavirus hot spot would erode Australia’s stretched quarantine capability.

The European Union has apparently suspended efforts to ratify a trade deal with Communist China following a series of tit-for-tat sanctions.

The Nanterre Correctional Court has thrown out charges against populist MP Marine Le Pen and MEP Gilbert Collard after the pair posted images of Islamic State abuses on Twitter in 2015.

From Tuesday, senior citizens living in care homes will be allowed to go for walks outside or visit their family’s garden without needing to quarantine for two weeks on return.

The transgender lobby has too much influence over the Law Commission in the ever-expanding hate crime laws in Britain, according to a former senior judge. Writing for the Policy Exchange think tank, Charles Wide — who previously served as a

A Finnish Christian Democrat MP has been charged with incitement over LGBT-critical comments made on social media, including quoting a passage from the Bible.

German police have reportedly arrested four members of a gang suspected to be behind one of the largest child porn sites in the world with more than 400,000 members worldwide.

Iran made several attempts in 2020 to obtain technology needed to develop weapons of mass destruction and has continued its pursuit of atomic weapons, a Dutch intelligence report said.