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Arabic-speaking knifeman who killed one was taken down by the public, including martial arts practitioner, who beat him unconscious.

The Netherlands notified the EU it wants an “opt out” from asylum rules, prompting central Europe’s Hungary to say it wanted the same thing. 

Populist leader Marine Le Pen has demanded a national audit of France’s finances to determine how Paris plunged the nation into a budgetary crises which threatens to take down the new government before it even gets off the ground.

Italian authorities have dealt a significant blow to crooks trafficking in fake retro video games, confiscating counterfeit vintage consoles and games with an estimated value of nearly $55.5 million (€50 million).

The EU is getting a defence commissioner for the first time and he warns war with Russia is just years away, calling to “properly prepare”. 

Britain’s top diplomat has claimed that climate change represents a greater threat than terrorism or Russia to the national security of the United Kingdom.

The Church is much more “alive” outside of the Western world, and pastors need to become less “Eurocentric” in their vision of Christianity, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

An Israeli man has been charged over an alleged Iran-backed assassination plot against several senior government officials.

The Dutch government has formally requested an “opt-out” clause from European Union pro-mass migration policies, marking a dramatic turnaround for one of the founding members of the bloc.

Americans who had contact with the suspect in an alleged failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Ryan Wesley Routh, were so alarmed by his erratic behavior in Ukraine that they alerted U.S. officials, who apparently did very little with the warnings.

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in Tehran on Tuesday to reportedly discuss “continuous and lasting” cooperation, days after Shoigu made a similar stop in North Korea.

Over one million applications for asylum will be made in Europe this year, as Syrians and Afghans continue to overwhelmingly dominate.

Since the left-wing Labour Party government of Sir Kier Starmer came into power in July, more than 10,000 illegal migrants have reached British shores after crossing the English Channel from France.

The sculpture evokes a Tzompantli, a rack used in Mesoamerican civilizations to display the skulls of captured enemies and sacrifice victims.

Exploding pagers were made in Hungary, a key European ally of Israel, the Taiwanese company whose brand name appeared on them said. 

The Biden-Harris administration refuses to publicly condemn threats against American freedom of speech by the European Union over an interview with Donald Trump and Elon Musk on his social media platform X last month, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has revealed.

Ukrainian drones struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting an evacuation.

Exactly four months before Sunday’s incident, a gunman shot a NATO leader five times, later confessing he did it out of support for Ukraine.

Chinese electric vehicles threaten to undercut UK domestic manufacturing and pose national security risks, a think tank warned.

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — said on Monday that Russian state media outlets have been banned from its platforms worldwide for “foreign interference activity.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the Russian Army to add 180,000 more troops, which would bring its total to 1.5 million active-duty soldiers — the second largest army in the world after China.

Archbishop Charles Chaput has offered fraternal correction to Pope Francis, urging him to hold to the basic tenets of Christianity.

Exceptionally heavy rainfall pounding Central Europe has prompted deadly flooding in the region, with four new deaths reported Monday.

The campaign to impeach and remove President Emmanuel Macron over his refusal to install the preferred pick of the far-left for prime minister after July’s snap legislative elections cleared its first legal hurdle on Tuesday.

Dame Alison Rose will be an adviser to what the firm calls its “equity diversity and inclusion committee” working on a diversity push.

During his first trip to Italy since taking office British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the UK will seek to replicate Giorgia Meloni’s success in stemming the tide of illegal boat migrants, sparking a wave of criticism from leftist Labour Party lawmakers back in London.

Ryan Wesley Routh, the alleged Donald Trump assassin, reportedly traveled to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion and wanted to recruit fighters.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday responded to the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump by suggesting it was a natural consequence of the United States supporting Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Former top BBC presenter Huw Edwards has avoided prison time despite being found guilty of possessing pedophilic images of children, merely receiving a six-month suspended sentence on Monday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky extended his “best wishes” to American former President Donald Trump and his family on Monday in response to what law enforcement authorities described on Sunday as a second failed assassination attempt on the 2024 presidential frontrunner in as many months.

European leaders offer prayers after another assassination attempt, but several capitals seem content to let the attack go unremarked. 

Citing “questionable governance” in Brussels, Thierry Breton has resigned as European Commission’s top censorship czar in a surprise announcement in the wake of a public spat over his threats to ban Elon Musk’s X platform in the bloc.

Figures including senior UK gov spokesman, a former British Prime Minister, and Nigel Farage have expressed thanks Mr Trump is uninjured.

Two people died in a missile attack on Ukraine’s Odesa, local officials said, as Moscow and Kyiv exchanged drone and missile attacks.

The director of the infamous Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony described Saint Joan of Arc as one of the “greatest transvestites” in French history.

Hugh Grant asked who is to blame for London’s decline, a city run for years by the same political party he has personally campaigned for.