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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II announced Sunday that she plans to leave the throne to make way for her son, Crown Prince Frederik.

Vladimir Putin vowed that Russia “will never back down” in his New Year’s address, as the invasion of Ukraine approaches its two-year anniversary.

An illegal migrant from Sudan has been granted the right to reside in the UK, despite concerns raised by MI5 over his support of ISIS.

A deadly snake that slithered onto the court stopped play during Dominic Thiem’s victory against James McCabe at the Brisbane International qualifying event in Australia on Saturday.

Ongoing tumult across the Red Sea driven by Houthi terrorist attacks spurred global shipping giant Maersk on Sunday to announce it was suspending the passage of vessels through the area for 48 hours.

U.S. Navy helicopters on Sunday sunk three Houthi boats, killing their crews, after the terrorists attempted to hijack a commercial vessel and were fired on in response to the besieged container ship’s distress call.

2023 started with Spring Counteroffensive optimism but ends with acknowledgement the conflict has devolved into static attrition warfare.

Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor known for roles in “The Full Monty,” “Michael Clayton” and “Batman Begins” has died at 75.

Since opening the gates to mass migration, at least 7,000 women have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany by asylum-seeking migrants.

Pope Francis has met with stiff opposition from black Christian leaders after approving the blessing of gay couples.

An unidentified man has been arrested on suspicion of attempting to create a bomb-making factory in a residential address in South London.

An Albanian court ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition party to the governing socialists.

Eurostar services to and from London were canceled Saturday after a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded due to heavy rain.

France will mobilise nearly 100,000 police officers, gendarmes and soldiers to Paris on New Year’s Eve amid a “very high terrorist threat”.

Thirty-two Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia on Saturday, the Kremlin said, a day after a barrage across Ukraine killed 32.

British pro wrestler Kurtis ‘Mad Kurt’ Chapman has reportedly died at only 26, his promoters said on Friday.

Poland says a Russian missile participating in this morning’s massive air strike on Ukraine spent three minutes in NATO airspace. 

Fulani Muslims carried out coordinated attacks on Christians over Christmas in 26 villages of Nigeria’s Middle Belt, leaving some 170 dead.

The U.S.-led task force President Joe Biden is looking to form for the protection of Red Sea commercial shipping from Houthi terrorist attacks is in trouble.

Air Force commander Oleshchuk said it was “the most massive aerial attack” since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Brexit leader turned border control activist Nigel Farage pricks top Tory’s ego over outlandish migrant boat claims.

Peter Seewald, close friend and collaborator of Pope Benedict XVI, said Thursday that Benedict was “stabbed in the heart” by Pope Francis’ attacks on the traditional Latin Mass.

West too fragmented, too slow, and will be attacked by Putin’s Russia if it doesn’t do more to help Ukraine, their foreign minister says.

The Methodist Church of Great Britain has called on its ministers, deacons, and elders to stop using “hurtful terms” such as “husband” and “wife” to avoid making assumptions that are not “the reality for many people.”

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister says the country has largely completed the process of shifting its oil exports from Europe to China and India.

Austria previously blocked Bulgaria´s and Romania´s entry into the Schengen Area over concerns about illegal immigration.

Man held on suspicion of planning Christmas terror is a Tajik Islamist who did recon on Cologne Cathedral to prepare for attack.

Civilian cargo ship struck mine in the Black Sea near Ukraine´s Danube ports Thursday, injuring two sailors, officials and analysts said.

World-famous French actor Gerard Depardieu has received an outpouring of support from 56 of his fellow countrymen as he faces multiple allegations of rape.

Russia vastly and deliberately undercounted the dead in one of the most devastating chapters of the war in Ukraine, AP claims.

Storm Gerrit battered the UK, destroying homes and a passenger train, and leaving thousands without electricity across Scotland and England. 

A chain-reaction crash involving seven vehicles on a motorway in northwest Turkey killed at least 10 people.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed to visitors and tourists on Wednesday because of a strike over contract negotiations.

The EU is reportedly preparing to use a Covid-era accounting trick and skirt Hungary’s veto on continuing to send billions to Ukraine. 

Wolfgang Schaeuble helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and was central in dragging Europe out of debt crisis.

There have been hundreds of antisemitic “politically motivated crime” cases in Germany since the Hamas terror attack against Israel.

German authorities say they have detained a man in connection with a reported threat to Cologne Cathedral over the holiday period.