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Pope Francis said Monday that people who opt not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus are acting on “baseless information or poorly documented facts.”

Britain may lead the world in learning to “deal with” the Chinese coronavirus, Education minister Nadhim Zahawi said on Sunday

Pope Francis once again appealed for a concerted international effort to battle climate change Monday, insisting that no one is exempt from this task.

The Scottish government has been urged to scrap a school survey that includes at least one question regarding 14-year old students’ experience with anal sex.

Thousands of people have once again taken to the streets in Germany to protest lockdown measures, with rally attendance in Hamburg exceeding expectations. Germans have once again taken to the streets on Saturday in protest of various lockdown measures in

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch King Willem-Alexander is swearing in a new ruling coalition Monday, led for the fourth time by Mark Rutte, amid a nationwide coronavirus lockdown and policy challenges ranging from climate change to housing shortages to the future of agriculture.

An Afghan illegal migrant managed to escape Austria to Britain by posing as a refugee following gang-rape and child murder accusations.

Tennis star Novak Djokovic’s Australian visa was reinstated by a judge Monday, quashing the original cancelation that followed the Serbian’s arrival last week because he is unvaccinated.

A National Health Service (NHS) doctor confronted Britain’s Health Secretary over his decision to make vaccines mandatory for healthcare staff on camera.

Around 40,000 people took the streets of Vienna on Saturday to protest COVID-19 restrictions in Austria, as a system of “Corona Apartheid” continues to operate in the EU country.

Just days after the Italian government announced it would be making vaccines mandatory for all residents over the age of 50, the Greek government is reported to be considering a similar policy.

British Members of Parliament (MPs) are due a £2,000 pay rise on the same day they may be hiking taxes for working Britons.

Inflation numbers in the Eurozone hit a record high of five per cent in a single month in December, topping the previous record set the month before as high energy prices are believed to be driving the trend.

Over 100,000 took to the streets on Saturday to protest France’s impending vaccine pass regime days after President Macron said he wanted to “piss off” the unjabbed.

“It’s time for London’s unvaccinated to pay with their freedoms, not ours”, said David Cameron’s sister-in-law in a hard-hitting editorial for the Evening Standard, a London free-sheet widely used in cat litter trays across the Metropolis.

Sarah Silverman has backed fellow comedian Jon Stewart’s anti-semitism accusations against the “Harry Potter” books and movies, saying the scene of “hook-nosed” goblins running the fictional Gringotts Wizarding Bank feels like “Nazi propaganda.”

Only 27 per cent of French people believe that the European Union is advantageous to France, polls suggest.

Tory grandee and David Cameron’s former right-hand man George Osborne has backed the BLM radicals who destroyed Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol. 

At least 270,000 applications have been submitted for a new family support scheme rolled out by the Polish government in an effort to increase the country’s birthrate.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s top civil servant allegedly arranged a garden party during Britain’s first lockdown.

Riot police in the Cyprus resort town of Paphos fired warning shots as a group of around 200 migrants became unruly and launched attacks on officers with stones.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has backed tennis ace Novak Djokovic against “big, bullying, nasty government” in Australia, where the Serbian athlete is currently being detained in a hotel. 

Jan. 8 (UPI) — Police in Ireland have confirmed the death of singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor’s 17-year-old son, Shane O’Connor.

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) – The NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo said Saturday that a participating soldier from North Macedonia has died.

Lithuania has no intention of backing down from its struggle with Communist China or its support for Taiwan, an MP has told Breitbart News.

“Huge numbers” of schoolchildren in the North of England have refused to take lateral flow tests before schools and wear masks.

LONDON (AP) – UK government advisers have recommended against giving a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine to nursing home residents and people over 80 because data shows that a third shot offers lasting protection against admission to the hospital.

A Spanish court has ruled that a mother who attempted to flee to Portugal to prevent her two children from being vaccinated cannot have any contact with them or approach them.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s leaders agreed Friday to toughen requirements for entry to restaurants and bars, and decided to shorten quarantine and self-isolation periods as the omicron variant spreads fast through the country.

As Sweden expands its Wuhan virus vaccine passport system, at least 23 people have been accused of cheating the passport by using the documents of others and some could even face possible prison time.

An illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted two women in separate attacks on a packed British beach has been jailed.

Jewish groups in the United Kingdom have backed Harry Potter author JK Rowling against allegations that the avaricious goblin bankers in her novels are anti-Semitic caricatures.

“I personally think we will get there at some point,” Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said of “mandatory vaccination.”

Google and Facebook have reportedly been fined millions by France’s data protection agency for using “dark patterns,” a type of coercive user interface design, to confuse users into accepting tracking cookies. Google faces a fine of $170 million and Facebook $68 million, which represent a minuscule percentage of Big Tech’s massive profits.

The UK Border Force has again threatened strike action over government plans to implement “pushback” measures to better enforce the British border.

Poland’s government has taken Meta to task for banning a eurosceptic party with representation in the Polish parliament from Facebook.