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Robert Fico said Tuesday his government has approved an agreement with the United States to build an additional nuclear reactor.

Left-wing comedian and former The View co-host Rosie O’Donnell is currently applying for Irish citizenship and the White House couldn’t be happier.

Brexit pioneer Nigel Farage writes the UK faces a “wake-up call” it must heed on the anniversary of the October 7 terrorist attacks.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday urged Swedish career protester Greta Thunberg to see a doctor because, “… for a young person, she’s so angry. She’s so crazy.”

The Iranian Foreign Ministry declared during its regular press briefing on Monday that it “expect[s]” United Nations member countries to simply ignore the reimposition of sanctions on the rogue Islamist regime the Security Council approved in late September.

Legendary Hollywood director Ridley Scott says that the film industry is so bad that he is being relegated to just watching his own old films.

More bad news after a year of dire polling for Tory leader Badenoch, as a pollster finds even her own members don’t think she’s up to it.

Chinese military satellites are passing over Ukraine to give Moscow pin-point targeting data for its strikes against targets, Kyiv claims.

Elon Musk’s Tesla suffered a 9.4 percent year-on-year decline in German sales for September, even as the overall sales of EVs rose by 31.9 percent in the country, according to data from the German road traffic agency KBA.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s grip on the Élysée Palace is becoming increasingly tenuous as he faces calls to resign or dissolve the National Assembly in the wake of the collapse of the third government in Paris in under a year on Monday morning.

Just hours after forming his government, new French PM Lecornu submitted his resignation, becoming the shortest-lived leader ever.

The NFL held a moment of silence Sunday for those murdered during the synagogue stabbing in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur.

Members of the Green Party adopted a motion to “abolish landlords” in Britain as the party seeks to expand its reach and sway defected Labour voters by adopting so-called “eco-populist” policies.

Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.

Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, authorities said.

At least five civilians died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight into Sunday, in a major nighttime attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure.

British police will get stronger powers to restrict repeated protests, the government said Sunday, after almost 500 people were arrested at a demonstration in support of a banned pro-Palestinian group.

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party widened its lead over the governing Labour Party in the wake of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and others attempting to tarnish the upstart populist party as racist.

Former Czech Prime Minister and populist billionaire Andrej Babiš and his ANO party emerged as the winners of the Czech Republic’s parliamentary elections on Saturday; however, a coalition-building process is likely to ensue before the next government is formed.

Russian drones struck a Ukrainian railway station on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and power grids before the fourth winter since its all-out invasion.

In defiance of pleas from politicians, police, and Jewish leaders to refrain from protesting in the wake of the Islamist terror attack on a synagogue, thousands of pro-Palestine activists took to the streets of England on Sunday.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, responding Friday to the Yom Kippur terror attack outside a Manchester synagogue and the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that erupted within hours, warned Britain is facing “societal breakdown,” declaring: “I feel more worried about the state of broken Britain than I ever have before.”

Ivan Klíma, a Czech author and anti-communist dissident whose work and life were shaped by Europe’s 20th-century totalitarian regimes, has died.

The Manchester synagogue terrorist, Jihad al-Shamie, was out on bail for a suspected rape at the time of the attack, which claimed the lives of two Jewish people on Yom Kippur.

Germany’s Munich Airport reopened Saturday morning after authorities shut it down the night before for the second time in less than 24 hours after more suspected drone sightings, the airport said in a statement.

Russian drones and missiles pounded Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Saturday, a Ukrainian energy firm said, a day after what officials described as the biggest attack on Ukrainian natural gas facilities since Moscow’s all-out invasion more than three and a half years ago.

“Liberal” Archbishop threatens a split in the wider Communion, given the conservative attitudes of many African and Asian churches.

Lammy angrily heckled as he attempted to address the gathering, being told to “go to Palestine” and that he has “blood on your hands”. 

The jihadist “interim” government of Syria sent a delegation to Moscow on Thursday for talks to facilitate better communication with the defense ministries of both countries, reports claimed – a challenge following Russia’s decades-long support of former dictator Bashar Assad, who the current government deposed.

Actor Richard Gere has again trashed President Donald Trump, declaring he is “not only crazy” but also “a dark, dark presence” intent on somehow destroying the very country that voted overwhelmingly for his return to the White House.

Two members of the Jewish community who were barricading a synagogue as it was being attacked may have been shot through the door by police.

Federal police deployed helicopters and other means to try to track down the drones, but no signs of them could be found, Bayer said.

Marine Le Pen and her National Rally deputy Jordan Bardella have “firmly established dominance” over the field of prospective candidates to replace French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the latest survey from Ifop.

Former chairman David Davis highlights the outsize risk of Farage being the target of a “copycat attack” after his police protection was cut.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy reported on Tuesday that a blackout at the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) was caused by Russian air attacks.

Counter-terrorism police say according to the information they have, the combined car-knife attack at a Synagogue is a “terrorist incident”.