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Incoming Prime Minister Liz Truss could end up taking out a loan of around £90 billion (~$104 billion) to freeze household energy bills, reports are now claiming.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller have been banned from entering the country along with six U.S. Senators.

Liz Truss is the new Prime Minister of the UK and Westminster furiously speculates on who she will select to fill the top jobs of her new govt.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk declared Monday that nearly a third of the population of Ukraine has become either refugees or forcibly displaced persons in the half year since Russia invaded.

Pope Francis called for zero tolerance of the sexual abuse of children, telling Portuguese television that such crimes are “diabolical.”

A transgender woman in Germany was hospitalised after an attack, one week after an illegal immigrant beat another transgender person to death.

How quickly people forget. One year ago climate worrier Greta Thunberg was circling the globe warning of impending doom, all while standing with world leaders and demanding immediate action to save the planet.

One of Britain’s best-known breakfast shows plumbed new depths of indignity as a struggling guest spun the wheel to win his energy bills paid.

Boris Johnson’s farewell speech obliquely criticised the leadership race and made a classical allusion to a future return to power.

The president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales congratulated Liz Truss on her election as UK Prime Minister Monday, while placing special emphasis on the country’s economic woes.

Britain’s new leader is widely expected to appoint a diverse senior cabinet team around her, but one that will miss one major UK demographic.

Boris Johnson delivered May’s half-Brexit, then focused on net-zero climate policies while crime, immigration, and the cost of living went out of control. Does he even have a legacy to call his own?

A private jet with four people onboard crashed Sunday in the Baltic Sea off the Latvian coast.

Actor Laurence Fox, who plays Hunter Biden in the upcoming movie “My Son Hunter,” said he was stunned by President Joe Biden’s now-infamous speech last week in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, saying the president’s rhetoric was both “dangerous and divisive.”

The current Slovak government has been donating arms to the Ukrainian armed forces while opening its border to refugees fleeing the war with Russia.

Germany and Israel’s presidents on Monday marked 50 years since the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, which included a public acknowledgement of Germany’s role in the tragedy which saw 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists.

During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.

English criminal barristers have begun an indefinite strike over pay and conditions, at a time when a stricken criminal justice system is already facing crippling backlogs.

BRUSSELS (AP) – Weapons stocks in the European Union are running low as member countries continue to sends arms and ammunition to Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat warned Monday as he urged EU nations to better coordinate their spending on military materiel.

Liz Truss, the next PM of the UK, claims — perhaps against the expectations of some — that she “will govern as a conservative”. 

The cost of a pint of beer must rise to up to £20 (~$23) if British pubs are to stay in business this winter, an industry bigwig warns.

Ukraine’s First Lady’s message to Britons facing crippling energy bill hikes and a cost of living crisis is that while they might be “counting pennies”, her county is counting casualties.

Britons can expect more globalist governance from Liz Truss, from the green agenda to the immigration, the PM looks to be just Thresa May 2.0.

Liz Truss is the new leader of Britain’s ruling political party, the Conservatives, and will become Prime Minister tomorrow. 

A member of Germany’s ruling Green Party is now said to have faked a number of so-called “far-right” hate crimes perpetrated against him.

At least ten people are dead with another 15 wounded in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan following a series of stabbings.

A ban on transgender players taking part in women’s rugby is now under threat, with the body responsible for the sport in England being hit with a legal case over the decision.

(AFP) – Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted on Sunday it was “shameful” that it took five decades for Berlin to agree compensation for the bereaved families of Israeli victims in the 1972 Munich Olympics attack.

Italian media have returned to the practice of daily reporting on coronavirus cases in what many fear may be a lead-up to renewed mask mandates and obligatory vaccinations.

A few dozen pro-abortion activists crashed the March for Life rally in London on Saturday, chanting “not to conceive, I f**k to c*m”.

Russian shelling hit the southern Ukraine port city of Mykolaiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.

A boy has been killed and a teen left fighting for his life after a 100-man “machete brawl” in Sadiq Khan’s London.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, the runaway favourite to succeed Boris Johnson as Conservative (Tory) Party leader and Prime Minister next week, has promised “immediate help” with soaring energy bills – but refuses to outline specific policies.

A senior official with the elitist World Economic Forum (WEF) has had enough of contrary opinions targeting the Geneva-based organization, cautioning dissenters to instead address more important things than “conspiracy theories.”

Despite warnings that European Union member-states face riots as a result of energy insecurity, a major bloc bigwig has insisted the EU is “not afraid” of Moscow cutting off its gas supply.

Ukrainian Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk warned Saturday that Russian soldiers have been polluting the nation’s drinking water, creating a potential crisis.