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London’s Metropolitan Police said they made 140 arrests during the first day of the multicultural Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday for offences including assaults on officers, sexual offences, drug dealing, robbery, and possession weapons.

France summoned U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner on Sunday after he published a scathing open letter in the Wall Street Journal to President Emmanuel Macron, accusing the French government of failing to adequately combat rising antisemitism and warning that “public statements haranguing Israel embolden extremists.”

At least one person was killed on Sunday in an explosion at a prominent retail building in central Moscow, emergency services said.

An American tourist was seriously injured in a knife attack on a tram in the German city of Dresden on Sunday after he attempted to protect female passengers from being harassed by migrants.

Three young sisters have died after an overcrowded rubber dinghy took on water in bad weather while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy, a German nonprofit organization reported Sunday.

Britain’s leftist Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner reportedly purchased her third home, worth nearly a million dollars amid the growing housing crisis she has been tasked to solve.

Russia accused Ukraine Sunday of launching drone attacks that sparked a fire at a nuclear power plant in its western Kursk region overnight, as Ukraine celebrated 34 years since its independence.

Mobile phone thefts in London soared to an all-time high last year, with nearly 330 being stolen every day on the streets of the British capital.

Multiple postal services around Europe announced Saturday that they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.

Nigel Farage has unveiled Reform UK’s plans for “mass deportations” and a dismantling of the so-called human rights codes that facilitate the “crisis” of illegal immigration. 

Lucy Connolly, a British housewife who was handed a hefty prison sentence for sending a Tweet, is in talks with the Trump administration and is taking legal advice to sue over the circumstances of her incarceration, she said after being released from prison.

Chinese officials and state media reacted with outrage when Ukraine rejected Chinese participation in postwar security.

The tragic death of an experienced skydiver in England one day after she ended the relationship with her partner has been ruled a suicide.

Russia needs to be forced to engage in diplomacy, Ukraine says, after Putin’s Foreign Minister poured cold water on imminent peace talks.

Nearly half of the UK’s TV industry workforce are jobless, a survey released Friday shows, with many workers looking beyond the sector in an unprecedented crisis.

Berlin has no plans to immediately recognise a Palestinian state because that would undermine any efforts to reach a negotiated solution with Israel, a German government spokesman said Friday.

“This is about defending my honour!”, Macron told a French magazine when justifying his decision to go against advice to sue Candace Evans.

A Ukrainian citizen suspected to be one of the coordinators of the undersea explosions in 2022 has been arrested, German prosecutors said.

A court in Vienna ruled this week that Islamic Sharia law can be legally upheld in Austria in civil disputes, sparking accusations that the nation’s Christian values are being undermined by multiculturalism.

Left has been in power for over a year, yet still they went for the easy way out of blaming the Tories over embarrassing migration stats.

British pop star Robbie Williams, whose acclaimed 2024 biopic Better Man may go down as one of the best movies of the decade, banned his four children from having phones, declaring them a form of child abuse.

Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks of the year on Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles overnight.

Russia says it wants to be part of security talks, warning decisions by “clumsy” European nations without Moscow is a “road to nowhere”. 

Pope Leo XIV urged Christians around the world on Wednesday to participate in fasting and prayer for world peace on Friday, the commemoration of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reportedly offered to U.S. President Trump to host peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky in Budapest.

An English court handed an American woman a 30-years after she was convicted attempted murder in a clan feud between families.

Israeli PM Netanyahu said he is fighting a “battle for civilisation” and accused the UK of “rewarding” Hamas by recognising Palestine. 

In an act of apparent desperation, Britain’s left-wing government has begun contacting thousands of properties to potentially house tens of thousands of supposed asylum seekers as legal challenges from councils across England threaten to quash the use of hotels to house mostly young male illegals in their communities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a conspicuous effort on Tuesday to bring Saudi Arabia’s de facto chief executive, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), into the final stage of the Ukraine peace process as a major player.

Canadian comedian Dave Foley joined comedian and CNN show host Michael Ian Black’s podcast and unloaded on Americans, calling them “fascists,” “uneducated,” and a people who would support “deporting people to 1939 Germany.”

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday blasted the establishment media for “disgraceful” attacks on President Donald Trump for working to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine War. 

China’s assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea and tensions in the Taiwan Strait threaten international security, Germany’s FM said.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has vowed that all 12 councils under his party’s control will “do everything in their power” to shut down migrant hotels with legal challenges.

Leader of ‘Coalition’ says it doesn’t want front line role while Russia says bid to decide security questions without it a ‘road to nowhere’.

German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy.