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An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.

2024 a year of medical drama for the Royal Family, with the annual walk to church on the Sandringham estate marking an important anniversary.

As Brexit foreshadowed Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, the defeat of Kamala Harris and the Democrats this year was preceded by the fall of globalists in Europe, leaving limited options for any real challenge to Trump’s authority from across the Atlantic.

The determinedly left-wing Guardian newspaper came down hard on Christmas Day and adopted an Ebenezer Scrooge tone as it scolded those who celebrate the birth of Christ.

A Russian cargo ship on its way to Syria sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Monday after an explosion in its engine room.

The fourth government of the year was unveiled by recently-installed French Prime François Bayrou on Monday evening, in what appears to be a doubling down on neo-liberal Macronism, with previously discarded allies of the president returning to power.

The Kremlin says claims the wife of deposed dictator Bashar al-Assad is filing for divorce so she can move to London do not “correspond with reality”, amid claims the couple are under effective house arrest in Moscow after fleeing Syria.

Rival protests took to the streets of Magdeburg on Monday evening, which had been the scene of an apparent terrorist attack last week.

Pope Francis called for a global ceasefire this weekend while again decrying Israel’s “cruelty” in dealing with Palestinians in Gaza.

‘Tis the season for spirited and winless debates about what the best Christmas movie is. No one needs us to remind you about the obvious holiday movies playing on repeat on cable, whether it’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Home Alone” or “Love, Actually,” or even those holiday adjacent classics like “Eyes Wide Shut” and “The Godfather.”

Pope Francis has called for “structural changes” to address economic disparities and ecological devastation in his annual Message of Peace for January 1, 2025.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished Christians around the world a Merry Christmas on Tuesday, saying “My dear Christian friends, as you gather this Christmas, I wish blessings from the Holy Land,” in a video recorded especially for the occasion.

Sweden said China had denied a request for prosecutors to conduct an investigation on a Chinese ship linked to two severed Baltic Sea cables.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said that American ownership of Greenland, which is currently controlled by Denmark, is an “absolute necessity” for national security and freedom.

Reform UK is on the cusp over overtaking the legacy Conservative Party in paid-up members, launching a live tracker for the countdown.

Police in Spain have made a breakthrough in a year-old missing persons cold case turned murder investigation thanks to incriminating images captured by a Google Street View camera. 

The world may have to wait for the next James Bond movie a little longer than usual now the latest installment has been put on hold due to a feud between MGM Studios and longterm James Bond producer/owner Barbara Broccoli.

Iranian-backed networks are reportedly hiring child mercenaries from mostly immigrant community gangs in European nations such as Sweden and Norway to attack Israeli targets.

A star of the iconic mid-1980s Australian film Crocodile Dundee has died at the age of 90.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has developed a habit of biting the hand that feeds, the NATO Secretary General cautions. 

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán highlighted “irreconcilable differences” with the European Union Sunday, especially on questions of immigration and gender theory.

The UK economy had zero growth between July and September, stagnating in the time since Sir Keir Starmer’s leftist Labour government took office.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

More than 7,500 people, many of them volunteers, raced to rescue wildlife and clean up shorelines blighted by mazut, a heavy, low-quality oil product, according to Russian news reports.

The leader of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel has surged to the top of the polls of preferred chancellors for the upcoming February elections.

Ukrainian drones struck a major Russian fuel depot for the second time in just over a week on Sunday, according to a senior Russian regional official, as part of a “massive” cross-border attack on fuel and energy facilities that Kyiv says supply Moscow’s military.

Mark Burnett, the London-born producer who launched Donald Trump to a global television audience with “The Apprentice,” has been tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom.

Police in Germany have admitted that they were warned from Saudi Arabia about the potential dangers of the suspected perpetrator of the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, yet failed to act on the warnings.

The U.S. will exit the globalist World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on day one of President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration taking power, a report Sunday predicts.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal if Panama continued to “rip-off” the United States with “exorbitant” transit fees.

A Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables and anchored off Denmark’s coast since November 19, departed Saturday, Sweden’s coast guard said.

Britain’s incoming ambassador to Washington, Lord Peter Mandelson, is a “moron” who should “stay home”, a senior Trump campaign advisor has said.

Pope Francis said Saturday that Israel’s recent airstrikes in Gaza go beyond warfare and constitute “cruelty.”

The UK’s pioneering driverless bus service, launched in Scotland to alleviate traffic congestion, is being discontinued due to insufficient passenger interest.

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people simply yearning for the promise of spring marked the dawn of the shortest day of the year Saturday at the ancient Stonehenge monument.

Ukraine brought the war into the heart of Russia Saturday morning with drone attacks that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan in the Tatarstan region, over 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from the front line.