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European leaders urged more “pressure” on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Trump-Putin summit to end the war in Ukraine raised concern that an agreement would require Kyiv to cede swathes of territory.

Police escorted ‘Stand Up to Racism’ activists away from a protest against migrant child rape to jeers of “pedos out” by Nuneaton locals.

London police arrested at least 150 people who gathered in support of Palestine Action, a radical anti-Israel group that was officially banned by the government as a terrorist organisation last month.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said that it will take over a grooming gang investigation from the South Yorkshire Police after the force came under fire for investigating itself amid accusations that some of its officers were complicit in the sexual exploitation of children and had personally raped young girls

The sleepy Amiens suburb of Pont-de-Metz in Northern France was rocked this week by the gruesome killing of a local man, who was reportedly mutilated and disembowelled.

VP kicked off his summer holiday by going fishing and warning Western nations against going down a “dark path” of censorship.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee fired back at UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s criticism of Israeli operations in Gaza, invoking Britain’s World War II bombing campaign against Dresden to question the consistency of British wartime policy.

Lithuania’s history in the Holocaust teaches us the dangers of extremism in politics, both left and right, which we must confront.

A Moroccan migrant will have his residence permit revoked from France and faces potential jail time after denigrating the country’s war memorial.

The UK government’s anti-homelessness minister resigned over swirling claims that she evicted tenants from a property before hiking the rent.

Germany will not authorize any exports of military equipment that could be used in Gaza “until further notice,” Chancellor Merz announced.

Foreign Chinese students are being used to spy on their classmates in British universities, which face accusations of avoiding so-called “sensitive” issues for the communist government in Beijing for fear or losing funding and tuition fees from Chinese students, a think tank has found.

The views of Ukrainian citizens on what kind of end to the Russian invasion they want has totally inverted since the war began, polling finds.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and First Lady Olena Zelenska visited Japan this week seeking opportunities for cooperation in both politics and business, particularly investments in the reconstruction of post-war Ukraine.

An number of illegal boat migrants have been detained pending their exchange, one-for-one, for other migrants from France.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) rescued three Americans overnight on Tuesday from Antarctica during a risky operation.

The UK will host JD Vance at a historic mansion for the start of his summer holiday trip to his ancestral British isles this weekend. 

The Bank of England cut its main interest rate Thursday by a quarter percentage point to 4% to bolster the sluggish UK economy.

A 43-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan appeared this week before a court in London on charges of allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl multiple times.

Moscow says it expects Trump and Putin to meet in the coming days, but is already pouring cold water on including Zelensky.

The legal and judicial system of Afghanistan has been “weaponized” by its brutal Taliban terrorist rulers to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” a U.N. investigator on human rights reported Thursday.

Amid a flood of internal criticism, the centre-right government in Sweden appears to be backtracking on its “one-sided” stance towards Israel, potentially including its calls to cut off EU trade.

Record recruitment into the Australian armed forces has delivered the biggest single-year military personnel increase Down Under in 15 years, figures released Wednesday show.

The woke cancel mob has turned on progressive pop star Billie Eilish, smearing her as an “ethno-nationalist” over her recent Irish heritage remarks.

President Donald Trump is open to a potential meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and the Russian President had a “highly productive meeting” on Wednesday, the White House said.

President Donald Trump will hike tariffs on India to 50 percent beginning later this month in response to India’s purchases of Russian oil.

The Warwickshire Police force has rejected claims that it engaged in a “cover-up” of the immigration status of two Afghan suspects who allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl, claiming that the information was withheld due to “national guidance”.

Police have been unable to stem the tide of phone snatchings but shoppers are being warned to change their behaviour to adapt instead. 

A British lawmaker’s decision to launch an AI version of himself to interact with constituents has ignited backlash and controversy about technology’s role in government.

Switzerland’s president held last-gasp talks with the US secretary of state on Wednesday after she rushed to Washington to avert tariffs.

Nearly half of British voters would support a complete shutdown of migration and for the government to embark upon a campaign of mass deportations, a survey from YouGov found.

Another round of U.S.-Russia talks only days to go before President Trump’s deadline to “get a deal where people stop getting killed” expires. 

U.S. President Donald Trump is now more popular than Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer among the British public, according to the latest devastating poll for the left-wing Labour Party government.

Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola underwent a non-emergency cardiac operation in a Rome hospital Tuesday and is now doing “well,” both he and a U.S.-based representative confirmed.

Israel has formally summoned the Polish ambassador for a reprimand, after Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, suggested a comparison between Israel’s war in Gaza and Nazi Germany’s conduct in World War II.