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“Harry Potter” creator and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling has told her fans on social media that there is no such thing as a transgender kid and that no child is born in the “wrong body.”

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

President accused of vanity project as he pushes to replace historic stained glass that survived fire intact for ‘contemporary gesture’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, his office says.

After 14 years in opposition and five months in government, left-wing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has seemingly run out of ideas and written to the UK’s main regulators pleading for direct action initiatives that will help boost the country’s stalled economy.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has threatened to sue his Tory counterpart Kemi Badenoch if she fails to apologise for accusing the populist party of faking numbers showing Reform surpassed the Conservatives in paid members.

Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war.

The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) has written an open letter to Pope Francis criticizing his “one-sided perspective” in the Gaza conflict.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered up his country as a potential venue for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine just days after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Russian-linked ‘dark fleet’ ship suspected of cutting cables on Christmas Day may have been also moonlighting as a signals intelligence ship.

Mohamed Salah, one of England’s most popular soccer stars, has been taking heat from some fans on social media.

U.S. officials say the United States is expected to announce it will send another $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine.

The Russian government on Friday struggled to manage international outrage over the increasing likelihood that a Russian surface-to-air missile brought down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 on Wednesday, killing 38 of its passengers.

The younger brother of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has died, Downing Street said in a statement Friday. Nick Starmer, who was 60, had cancer and died Thursday.

Over 150,000 illegal boat migrants have landed on British shores since the crisis began in earnest in 2018 as hundreds more crossed the English Channel on Christmas and Boxing Day.

City and its police department may be held criminally liable for failing to prevent last week’s Christmas market attack that killed five,.

Nearly 70 migrants died when their boat sank as they tried to reach Spain earlier this month, Mali´s Minister for Malians Living Abroad said.

NATO moved Friday to enhance its naval presence in the Baltic Sea as Estonia’s navy began patrolling an undersea cable supplying energy from Finland.

It is time for democracy to find answers to economic stagnation, mass migration, and wars in Europe and the Middle East, the President said.

A cross country survey in Europe has found that support for a forever war in Ukraine is falling, perhaps not coincidentally given President-Elect Donald Trump’s demands that the Europeans pay for their own defence. 

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims it thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate Russian military officers with hidden bombs.

Joe Rogan remains unconvinced that UFC legend Conor McGregor will ever fight again, and he believes the Irishman’s “hard” partying lifestyle may keep him out of the Octagon.

Sources within the government of Azerbaijan told Euronews on Thursday they believe a Russian surface-to-air missile caused the deadly crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243, which killed over 30 of the plane’s passengers on Wednesday.

Two women and a dog were left dead in a Christmas Day stabbing spree in the English town of Bletchley, Milton Keynes.

The Russian operator of a cargo ship that sank in the Mediterranean Sea between Spain and Algeria said Thursday that it had been hit by a series of explosions in an act of sabotage.

Nigel Farage’s Reform has now overtaken the UK’s traditional party of government, the Conservatives, in paid-up members.

More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea this year, a report has said.

A major electricity interconnector unexpectedly went offline on Christmas day, with officials saying they are not ruling out sabotage.

Moscow will work with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to improve relations on one condition: Washington must make the first move, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared Thursday.

Departing President Joe Biden has only a matter of weeks left in office but that didn’t stop him Wednesday from ordering more weapon deliveries to Ukraine.

In his annual Christmas message, Pope Francis has warned of the “devastating effects of climate change” while decrying the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza.

People smuggling operations continued in the English Channel on Christmas as hundreds of illegals reached British shores after setting sail from the beaches of France.

The crash of a passenger jet heading from Azerbaijan to the Chechnya region of Russia on Christmas Day has killed at least 38 people, officials said.

Church of England clergy have reportedly been told to make changes to popular Christmas carols to avoid “causing unnecessary offence”.

King Charles III honoured the sacrifices of military veterans and healthcare workers, while celebrating the example given to the world by Jesus Christ in his annual Christmas Day message to the British Commonwealth.