BRUSSELS (AP) – Belgian authorities came out of the long Easter weekend with another record cocaine haul after customs officials at the port of Antwerp seized almost 11 tons of the drug that was discovered amid a cargo of blue
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has signalled that he would push to decriminalise marijuana if re-elected in the upcoming election, in his latest ‘green’ agenda campaign promise. Though the Mayor of London does not have the power to introduce legislation, Mr
An activist for French populist Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) was hospitalised after being targetted and brutally beaten by five far-left Antifa militants.
The British government has claimed that immunity certificates will be a “feature of our lives” until the threat of Chinese coronavirus has passed and admitted that vaccine passports may still be required to go to pubs and restaurants in the future.
About 8,000 foreign tourists are arriving in the UK every day according to Border Force figures, as Brits are barred from going abroad.
Swedish public broadcaster SVT has been criticised after inviting an imam from a controversial school onto a programme to explain the Christian holiday of Easter.
The Ukrainian government is increasingly concerned with Russian military movements near its border, despite Kremlin assurances that none of those movements are meant to be threatening.
Boris Johnson has said he will personally visit a pub when they are permitted to reopen, and played down vaccine passports.
A spokesperson for the presidency of Ukraine claimed Sunday that Kyiv had received the support of “over a dozen” countries in launching a plan to liberate Crimea, a Ukrainian region invaded and colonized by Russia in 2014.
France will dissolve groups that hold meetings barring people from attending based on their race, ethnicity, national background or religion.
The Irish bishops have sharply criticized the government for continuing to ban public worship, insisting that leaders fail to grasp the importance of religion for the people.
A Conservative government imposing covid status certificates would be the state reaching “too far into our lives”, a senior Tory backbencher has warned.
PARIS (AP) — French authorities are investigating accusations that government ministers and others dined in secret restaurants in violation of pandemic restrictions.
Leading Brexiteer David Davis said that coronavirus vaccine passports should not be used domestically as Britain’s socialised healthcare system, the NHS, is too “incompetent” in handling private data.
LONDON (AP) – All adults and children in England will be able to have routine coronavirus tests twice a week as a way to stamp out new outbreaks, the British government said Monday as it prepared to announce the next steps in lifting the nation’s months-long lockdown.
Rape gang predator Qari Abdul Rauf has been pictured at large in Rochdale once again some six years after he was supposed to be deported, having served out the paltry custodial portion of his sentence.
Pope Francis pointed to the Risen Christ on Easter Sunday as hope for all who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic.
BOCHNIA, Poland (AP) – Polish hospitals struggled over the Easter weekend with a massive number of people infected with COVID-19 following a huge surge in infections across Central and Eastern Europe in recent weeks.
Lessons on so-called “white privilege” are needed to combat “racial prejudice” within children, according to new guidance drawn up by a group of education charities and unions.
Parishioners have accused London police of trying to find lockdown rule-breaking during an Easter Sunday service to justify having shut down a Good Friday mass at a Polish church.
A Canadian city council has voted to remove a statue of the country’s first prime minister, following claims its presence was painful to indigenous people.
VATICAN CITY (AP) – Christianity’s most joyous feast day was celebrated worldwide with faithful sitting far apart in pews and singing choruses of “Hallelujah” through face coverings on a second Easter Sunday conditioned by pandemic precautions.
Police in Bristol took a “light touch” as around 1,500 leftist protesters took to the streets again on Saturday to demonstrate against the government’s proposed Police and Crime Bill.
LONDON (AP) – Britain’s medicines regulator is urging people to continue taking the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, despite revealing seven people in the UK have died from rare blood clots after getting the shot.
The UK continues its dizzying vacillation on the vaccine passport programme, with Britons not now needing papers to enjoy the pub.
Police were volubly expelled from a Polish church in Alberta, Canada after disrupting an Easter service, with the pastor denouncing them as “Gestapo Nazi communist fascists” and “psychopaths”.
A half-billion pound programme of temporary hospitals is ending, despite many of the sites never having treated a single corona patient.
Bulgarians are heading to the polls after months of anti-government protests and amid a surge in coronavirus infections.
LONDON (AP) – Hundreds of people marched Saturday through central London and other cities across England and Wales to protest the British government’s plan to hand the police new powers to tackle demonstrations.
Italian populist Senator Matteo Salvini has hit back against criticism from Italian leftists over his recent meeting with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
Footage widely shared on social media shows London police interrupting a Good Friday service at a Polish church in London and threatening Christians with fines unless they dispersed.
A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media.
French hospitals brought in extra staff for the Easter holiday weekend to cope with more coronavirus patients.
Germany’s president says the country is enduring a “crisis of trust” and urged people to “pull together” at Easter.
The Conservative government is reportedly considering a time limit of less than a year in possible vaccine passport plans to stop a revolt in parliament, signalling the UK is edging closer to bringing in the measures.
The union representing a teacher suspended from Batley Grammar School for showing images of the Islamic prophet during a lesson on blasphemy donated thousands of pounds to a charity that doxed him and accused him of “terrorism”.
The Italian government is expected to deploy up to 70,000 police and carabinieri over Easter weekend to prevent large gatherings and enforce lockdown restrictions.
LONDON (AP) – The commission behind a report that concluded that Britain doesn’t have a systemic problem with racism has defended itself against critics, some of whom have argued that it downplayed the country’s historic role in slavery.
Labour’s Shadow Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary David Lammy listed heavyweight boxing legend Smokin’ Joe Frazier alongside Judas Iscariot and the KKK in a bizarre Good Friday message.
Swedish Green Party spokeswoman Märta Stenevi has claimed that in order for foreign minority women to get power in Sweden, native-born white Swedish women must move aside.
