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Poland´s Internal Security Agency arrested an 18-year-old planning a suicide attack, on a government office, using an explosive belt.

Nearly half of Ukrainian refugees who fled to Germany say they intend to stay in the country “forever” or at least for a few years.

A French fireman recently burned up an athletic track to break two records as crowds cheered him on in Haubourdin, France.

A senior Russian lawmaker ominously told reporters on Wednesday that General Sergei Surovikin, a top Russian military leader who has not been seen in public since the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) staged a brief uprising against the Russian armed forces in late June, was “currently resting.”

Indian PM Narendra Modi began a two-day visit to France where he will discuss major new defence deals.

Sultan al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates, who also heads one of the country’s state oil companies, told senior officials from Europe, Canada and China gathered in Brussels that record-breaking heat seen in parts of the world recently shows the need for urgent action to curb emissions.

Russian spymaster claims hour-long call with CIA director Burns to talk about the Wagner rebellion and “what should be done about Ukraine”. 

President Biden arrived in Finland for U.S.-Nordic Summit, his final stop on a three-nation European tour, returning to the U.S. tonight.

Ukraine air defenses shot down 20 Iranian-made drones fired by Russia mostly at the Kyiv region Thursday night.

Nearly half of the “46 foreign policy experts” who called for more arms to Urkaine in a POLITICO letter have ties to the Arms industry.

President Joe Biden boasted Wednesday at a NATO gathering in Vilnius that the United States has given more money to Ukraine than all other nations combined.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A prisoner suspected of stabbing Larry Nassar at a federal penitentiary in Florida said the disgraced former sports doctor provoked the attack by making a lewd comment while they were watching a Wimbledon tennis match on TV, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

The BBC presenter who allegedly paid a teenager £35,000 for sexually explicit pictures has been named as news host Huw Edwards.

A crane hoisted massive oak trusses onto Notre Dame Cathedral on Tuesday in a spectacular operation to rebuild ‘Our Lady of Paris’.

NATO is “more united than ever”, Ukraine is on a path to membership, and is now treated as an equal to NATO, it was said in Vilnius.

The Russian news agency Tass reported on Tuesday that the government of communist China is preparing for a visit by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in October.

Momentarily lost in his own words after he called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “Vladimir”, the forename of his Russian enemy.

Ukraine should demonstrate more “gratitude” for the support it is receiving from Western powers, Britain’s defence secretary said.

United Nations votes to adopt resolution on Qur’an burning at ‘urgent meeting’ convened for Pakistan, a cheerleader for global blasphemy laws

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol led a meeting of NATO’s Asia-Pacific partners on the sidelines of the military alliance’s annual summit on Wednesday focused on combating the threat of communist North Korea, steering the conversation away from NATO members’ primary concern in Ukraine.

Milan Kundera, whose dissident writings in communist Czechoslovakia transformed him into an exiled satirist of totalitarianism, has died in Paris. He was 94.

A former Tory minister called on the public to take illegal aliens into their homes to help reduce the cost of putting them up in hotels.

President Joe Biden shunned fellow world leaders Tuesday night and skipped a NATO dinner, with the White House citing the president’s workload for retiring early to his hotel in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The war in Ukraine will not end until the West stops trying to defeat Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Populist parties are making gains across Europe as the issue of migration has soared to one of the top concerns of EU citizens.

Another human trafficker has been jailed in the UK over the shocking 2019 deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants in a truck. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be unhappy with reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit currently underway in Vilnius, Lithuania will culminate with an offer of increased support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, but not an offer of full membership in NATO.

A new report from the House Judiciary Committee indicates that an effort against “Russian disinformation” on social media platforms, spearheaded by the FBI and Ukrainian intelligence officials, resulted in the censorship of Americans’ accounts. In one case, the FBI and Ukrainian intelligence effort flagged  an account run by the U.S. State Department for censorship, but it was ultimately not taken down.

NATO’s annual summit in kicked off with new pledges of military support, with new missiles and tanks heading east from Germany and France.

Portuguese Bishop Américo Aguiar, tapped by Pope Francis to become a cardinal, has caused a stir by insisting that the Catholic Church is not trying to convert young people to Jesus Christ.

“The Democratic Party is a party of war,” third party presidential candidate Cornel West said in a social media post Monday, expressing his view on U.S. involvement in the Ukraine war.

Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, the newly appointed prefect of the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF), insisted in a recent interview that he is not a Freemason or a “Soros spy infiltrated in the Church.”

President Joe Biden during a recent interview admitted that the United States military was running low on ammunition for Ukraine.

Turkey has officially backed the NATO membership bid of Sweden in exchange for the Nordic nation’s support of Islamic country joining the EU.

NATO will make binding commitments to aid Ukraine but won’t commit to admitting it as a member until Russia has been defeated, it is claimed. 

EU Commissioner Thierry Breton told social media companies they must remove “calls for revolt” or content showing riots or face being banned.