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Police should stop monitoring social media for alleged breaches of non-crime, free speech strictures and return to the fundamental tasks of catching criminals while protecting society, the head of the UK police watchdog said.

More than 350 Greenlandic Indigenous women and girls, including some 12 years old and younger, were forcibly given contraception by Danish health authorities in cases that date back to the 1960s, according to an independent report released Tuesday.

Socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro on Monday refuted the existence of the Cartel of the Suns, which he stands accused of leading, and condemned the United States’ drug-fighting efforts in an interview with the Russian state outlet RT.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rejected calls from Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to hold fresh elections in the wake of the collapse of another government in Paris.

A Russian drone shot down in Ukraine allegedly featured a camera including test footage taken in Shenzhen, China, belying its alleged origin – according to a report published this weekend to which the Ukrainian government subsequently responded.

The African Union has joined a campaign to demand reparations from former Colonial powers over “historic crimes” such as slavery.

A Russian glide bomb struck a village in eastern Ukraine as older people were lined up to receive their pensions on Tuesday, killing at least 21 and wounding nearly two dozen others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a regional official said.

Paris politics has once again descended into chaos, as the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou collapsed on Monday after the National Assembly overwhelmingly voted against a confidence measure brought forward by the embattled PM in a last-ditch effort to pass through a national budget. 

Prince Harry arrived in the U.K. on Monday leading to speculation about whether he will meet with his father, King Charles III, for the first time in 19 months.

Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan is seeking asylum in the United States after he was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport over anti-transgender social media posts he made.

Rick Davies, the lead singer and co-founder of British band Supertramp, has died after a long battle with cancer, the band said Monday. He was 81.

An Australian judge on Monday sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband’s relatives with death cap mushrooms.

British teenagers are more patriotic about the United Kingdom than their parents, potentially spelling more political trouble for the left-wing Labour government, which gave the right to vote to 16 and 17-year-olds in the next general election.

At least five people have been murdered and 15 others wounded Monday in a terror shooting attack targeting bus commuters in Jerusalem.

British Ambassador to the United States Lord Peter Mandelson told Breitbart News exclusively that the United Kingdom is very much looking forward to hosting U.S. President Donald Trump at Windsor Castle for a historic second state visit for Trump later this month, and that King Charles “is going to roll out the red carpet” for the leader of the United States.

A total of 890 people were arrested in London during a protest this weekend in support of the banned group Palestine Action, the capital’s Metropolitan Police said Sunday.

Thousands of London Underground staff on Sunday began a series of strikes over pay and conditions that threaten to shut down the subway system used by millions of people a day.

Drug gang crime has become so out of control in Brussels that military forces will be deployed to the Belgian capital, the government announced this weekend.

The 82nd Venice Film Festival may be over, but the conversations on the films that premiered, the things people said, the clothes they wore, and how it affects the Oscar race are still going.

Pope Leo XIV declared a 15-year-old computer whiz the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint Sunday, giving the next generation of Catholics a relatable role model who used technology to spread the faith and earn the nickname “God´s influencer.”

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced Sunday he will step down as his Liberal Democratic Party slumps in the polls and critics blast his government over its “African Hometown” program seen as a backdoor scheme to enable mass migration from Africa to Japan.

Russia hit Ukraine’s capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building.

Father Ted creator Graham Linehan is ready to turn his back on Britain forever, claiming police are in thrall to trans activists and free speech is under threat. Instead he is looking to live in the U.S. where he will be far way from “nut-jobs.” 

Britain’s first female Muslim Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood had a rough start on Saturday, with over 1,000 illegal migrants arriving after crossing the English Channel from France on her first day in office.

Lucy Connolly, a British mother who was jailed for over a year for a Tweet, said that she plans to work with Nigel Farage’s Reform UK during an appearance at the populist party’s annual conference on Saturday.

Police on Saturday arrested some of the hundreds of protesters who gathered outside Parliament in London on Saturday to defy a ban on the group Palestine Action, which has been deemed a terrorist organization by the government.

Hundreds of ordinary admirers and VIPs paid their last respects Saturday to Giorgio Armani, remembered by Milan’s mayor as a “man of extraordinary elegance” who left an indelible mark on the city and the global fashion world.

The knives appear to be out in Westminster as questions swirl over the shelf life of Sir Kier Starmer’s government and whether anything can be done to reverse its doom loop trajectory and fend off an early election.

Conor McGregor has taken another step in his campaign to be elected to Ireland’s presidency with a speech ripping the current government.

Actor Ncuti Gatwa says William Shakespeare was “unapologetically queer,” adding that 16th century playwright Christopher Marlowe was a “bad bitch.”

President Donald Trump said Friday that both India and Russia appeared to be “lost” to China days after leaders from the three countries met at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in China.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer shook up his Cabinet after his top deputy stepped down over failling to pay full tax on a recent house purchase.

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever its longstanding ties with Moscow – and could soon be banned.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared that the left-wing Labour Party government is in “crisis” and predicted that it will not last its full term in office, telling supporters that his Reform UK party must be prepared to take the reigns of power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets for destruction,” unless Russia first agrees to a cease-fire and peace deal. Ukraine’s Western allies are reportedly considering a plan under which the United States would supervise a postwar “buffer zone,” but all boots on the ground would be supplied by non-NATO countries.

The Duchess of Kent, who famously broke royal protocol to hug a Wimbledon runner-up and stepped away from family duties to teach music in a public school, has died, Buckingham Palace announced Friday. She was 92.