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“Rocky” star Sylvester Stallone visited the Vatican with his family on Friday and met Pope Francis, who told the actor that he is a big fan of his films. The two then playfully traded punches together.

Elon Musk’s decision to not activate Starlink’s satellite communications during a critical moment in the Ukraine conflict has sparked a heated debate on the role of private tech companies in international affairs. Musk took to his X/Twitter platform to defend the decision by claiming, “If I had agreed to their request, then SpaceX would be explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation.”

With gun salutes and tolling bells, the United Kingdom on Friday marked the anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

Fires hit railway infrastructure in Hamburg overnight, causing widespread disruption. Police suspect a political motivation.

Zero. That was the sum total of new UK offshore wind projects bought by developers at a key government auction Thursday, as renewable energy groups shunned the sector as unviable even with heavy taxpayer subsidies.

Asylum applications to the EU have risen by nearly one-third over 2022 as the bloc expects over a million to apply for asylum this year.

Court confirms government ban on faith-linked garments, which has already triggered a school strike and a death threat against a headmaster enforcing the law.

Claims are soaring, and there could be as many as 300,000 would-be asylum seekers filing papers this year, assuming no new wars break out.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged $1 billion more for Ukraine while in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Donald Trump has teased a return to the debate stage, not with his Republican primary challengers, but to take on woke Meghan Markle.

An investigation has been launched into how a suspected terrorist was able to escape prison by clinging to the bottom of a food delivery van.

The first Africa Climate Summit ended Wednesday with a demand for global leaders to initiate a global carbon tax on fossil fuels, aviation and maritime transport, all while reforming financial systems that force African nations to pay more to borrow money.

A Greek shipping company has pleaded guilty to smuggling sanctioned Iranian crude oil and agreed to pay a $2.4 million fine.

The EU should be bolder over new member states to head off attempts by the Russian state to undermine pro-European sentiment, diplomats say.

The NatWest banking group has announced that Sir Howard Davies will be replaced in the wake of the Nigel Farage debanking scandal.

The congressional Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, chaired by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), held a hearing on Wednesday to discuss the plight of Armenian Christians trapped by an Azerbaijani blockade in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. The commission heard testimony from experts who said Azerbaijan’s actions clearly constituted genocide, with complicity from Turkey and the Islamist forces it has dispatched into the region.

MADRID (AP) — Spanish soccer player Jenni Hermoso has accused Luis Rubiales of sexual assault for kissing her on the lips without her consent after the Women’s World Cup final, the country’s prosecutors’ office said Wednesday.

The company has announced that it will shut down the News Tab for users in the UK, France, and Germany, in what it described as “part of an ongoing effort to better align our investments to our products and services people value the most.”

British Army soldier hung onto the bottom of a truck as it drove out of one of the UK’s largest prisons, where he was held pending trial.

The Taiwanese government praised Pope Francis’ diplomatic outreach to Beijing this week while sharply criticizing “China’s deteriorating religious freedom and human rights.”

The Third World War has already started and people should expect more wars to break out, Ukraine’s top security chief declared on Tuesday.

LONDON — A rock’n’roll juggernaut was descending Wednesday on London’s Hackney district, where The Rolling Stones are set to unveil their new album, “Hackney Diamonds.”

A Greek captain and three of his crew faced homicide charges Wednesday over the death of a tardy passenger who was pushed into the sea.

Secretary of State makes unannounced visit to Kyiv, expected to announce hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of new spending.

Researchers from Canada and Australia have published a study predicting a remarkable one billion deaths from climate change over the next 100 years.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned humanity the world’s climate is breaking down, delivering his terrifying appraisal just weeks after declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

The U.K. will declare Russia´s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization, saying it remains a threat to global security.

A manhunt has been launched for a Russian in Germany after a 10-year-old boy was reportedly thrown from a bridge for speaking Ukrainian.

Three sailors were rescued after the inflatable catamaran they were trying to navigate from Vanuatu to Australia was attacked by sharks.

Major car show was opened by the German Chancellor, but his boosterism was upstaged by eco-extremists accusing “greenwashing”.

Local leftist officials have been blasted for mismanagement in Birmingham as the city council has declared that it is effectively bankrupt.

The largely U.S.-funded war in Ukraine costs approximately $100 million a day — more than the $95 million President Joe Biden wants to send to Maui after the most fatal fire in the nation’s history in over a century.

Apple is set to introduce USB-C ports in its upcoming iPhone 15 models, a move driven by European Union regulations that many see as a win for consumers. For years, Apple has resisted USB-C in favor of its Lightning connector, but now seems to have embraced the benefits of using the same port on its laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

The communist Castro regime in Cuba announced on Monday it is working to “neutralize and dismantle” an alleged human trafficking network that recruits Cuban citizens to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish soccer federation fired women’s national team coach Jorge Vilda on Tuesday, less than three weeks after his team won the Women’s World Cup title and amid the controversy involving suspended federation president Luis Rubiales.

Violent protests met a Qur’an burning demonstration in Sweden’s multicultural border city of Malmo on Sunday, leading to a night of riots.