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The European Union has seen imports of liquid natural gas from Russia rise to record levels this year, sending billions of euros to Moscow.

Polish Prez Duda took delivery of a first shipment of tanks and howitzers from South Korea, hailing the swift implementation of the deal.

Britain’s socialised National Health Service – lionised as “Our NHS” by the left-liberal establishment – cancelled more cancer surgeries during lockdown than any European country bar Romania. 

French police arrested a 48-year-old Iranian national who is thought to be linked to the killing of two homeless people last week.

Darrel Rose, a violent serial rapist who controlled and tortured his victims in London, has received a theoretical “life” sentence. 

Police in Germany arrested an Eritrean accused of stabbing two young teens walking past an asylum home on their way to school, killing one.

Netflix is facing accusations that its new trailer for the upcoming docuseries “Harry & Meghan” engages in dishonest editing, with reports claiming the trailer deceptively uses footage from the Michael Cohen trial and other unrelated news events to create the impression that the Sussexes were hounded by the media.

Police said a 14-year-old girl died and a 13-year-old girl was seriously injured after they were attacked by a man on their way to school.

Anonymous bomb threats forced the evacuation of several police stations, shopping malls and courts, including the country’s supreme court.

Six years after deadliest peacetime attack on Belgian soil, trial of 10 men over suicide bombings at Brussels airport and a subway station.

Government parties within Germany are now telling the public to follow mask-wearing rules first implemented during COVID in order to slow the spread of cold and flu.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to clear the ever-growing backlog of asylum applications by simply granting what amounts to an amnesty to migrants from a number of African and Middle Eastern countries, reports suggest. 

Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher has had enough of Generation Z lecturing the rest of the world about their failings when it comes to climate change, telling them to “shut the f**k up.”

Turkey, pork, and other Christmas day staples have all seen price spikes of around 20 per cent or more amid Britain’s inflation crisis.

Pope Francis railed against hypocrisy Sunday, urging his hearers to live authentically and take off their masks.

France praised itself as a green “pioneer” after it got permission from Brussels to ban some short-haul flights, preferring trains instead. 

Police arrested a 72-year-old woman in Germany this week for allegedly turning her roommate’s ventilator off on two separate occasions, allegedly because the life-saving machine annoyed her.

Global arms sales rose by nearly two percent in 2021 ahead of the Ukraine conflict, an international arms sales watchdog noted Monday. The 12-month jump represents the seventh consecutive year of increases.

EU officials have lashed out at plans aimed at pushing domestic manufacturing in the United States over accusations that it harms the bloc’s interests.

The war in Ukraine has put European Union expansion at the top of the agenda as officials from the Western Balkans and EU leaders gather.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) claims Russian forces have lost over 60 fixed-wing aircraft and have cut aerial missions from a high of 300 sorties a day to mere “tens”.

About 20 per cent of lone “child” Albanian migrants have gone missing from one English town, statistics have revealed.

Any attempt by the European Union to send another $19bn to Ukraine will be blocked by Hungary, Viktor Orbán has declared.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has claimed that Russian public support for the Ukraine war is “falling significantly” as it drags on and touches an increasing number of Russian families. 

BRUSSELS (AP) – Jaana Mettala was six months pregnant and on her way to work when the bomb exploded in the heart of Brussels’ European Union quarter. She suffered severe burns, but Mettala and her baby survived – 32 other people did not.

Struggling workers in Britain should avoid striking over their poor pay situations in order to help the fight against Vladimir Putin, the Chairman of the Conservative Party has said.

Russian officials have denounced the Ukrainian government as “enemies of Christ and the Orthodox faith” over security service raids on churches accused of links to Moscow.

Like all good pageant contestants, Nazaa’a displayed not only dazzling beauty but also poise and grace. Nazaa’a, mind you, is a camel.

Around 700,000 households in Ireland are now in energy poverty as a result of the ongoing European Union gas crisis, MPs have claimed.

A federation of French supermarket chains has warned of significant waste of fresh products in the event of possible power cuts in the country this winter, with those in rural areas much more likely to face outages.

Germany is “sleepwalking” into another migrant crisis as more waves of Ukrainians are expected to flee the country, a leading MEP warned.

Several embassies of Ukraine in various European countries received bloody packages on Friday, one containing animal eyes, just days after the country’s embassy in Spain received a letter bomb.

French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that Elon Musk abides by European Union restrictions on speech on Twitter in a meeting on Friday.

The war between Russia and Ukraine has provoked a series of collateral crises around the world, Pope Francis asserted Friday.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is comparable to Britain’s historic rule of Ireland, the chief of the European Commission suggested on Friday.

Drug traffickers in the no-go zone suburbs of Paris are allegedly offering illegals 200 euros per day to violently attack local police who try and interfere with their drug-selling operations.