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In an effort to clamp down on human trafficking, Europol raided hundreds of vineyards and farms across Europe last month.

Three members of the fabled Swiss Guard have quit their jobs in the face of the Vatican’s new coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The UK continues to strengthen bonds with allies with a rare example of “quad carrier operations” on China’s doorstep. 

The former detective who blew the whistle on the grooming gang scandal in Rochdale has condemned the toxic cop culture that led to the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Scotland Yard officer, warning that even if Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick resigns, she would only be replaced by another high-ranking officer who had graduated through the same, self-serving ranks.

A Russian actress and director on Tuesday arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) in a bid to best the United States and film the first movie in orbit. The Russian crew is set to beat a Hollywood project that was announced last year by “Mission Impossible” star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

Police officers in Marseille, France, were targetted by alleged Kalashnikov rifle fire over the weekend as a union official described part of the city as being like a warzone.

Governments will try to brand climate change as a public health issue in order to expand their powers, Baroness Claire Fox warned.

Five arrested after the former Tory leader Sir Iain was allegedly hit over the head with a road cone on Monday afternoon.

Police fatally shot a Sudanese asylum seeker armed with a knife at an asylum home in Lower Saxony, after the African man attacked the officers.

Boris Johnson’s UK is much, much closer politically, socially and economically to Tito’s Yugoslavia than it is to Milanović’s Croatia.

Pope Francis hosted scientists and religious leaders in the Vatican Monday, where they signed a joint appeal calling for carbon neutrality and a radical change in lifestyles.

Antarctica has posted its coldest winter since records began in 1957 with average temperatures of -61.1 ° C. The previous record was -60.6°C in 1976. According to a shocked Washington Post: The chill was exceptional, even for the coldest location on the planet.

Pope Francis condemned utilitarianism as a subtle form of ideological colonialism Sunday, insisting that happiness is not to be found in an abundance of things but in detachment and generosity.

Self-confessed Muslims on social media have celebrated a car crash that left cartoonist Lars Vilks and two police officers dead on Sunday.

‘Insulate Britain’ protesters have blocked major roads around London leading to 38 members of the group being arrested on Monday morning.

Reform UK leader Richard Tice told Breitbart London that Boris Johnson’s “con-socialists” are leading the UK economy on the “road to ruin”.

Pope Francis warned Monday that humanity is inflicting “serious wounds” on the environment and threw his moral weight behind the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26).

British military personnel have begun delivering fuel to gas stations after a shortage of truck drivers disrupted supplies.

Britain´s Brexit minister threatened Monday to trigger a contentious break clause in the U.K.´s divorce deal with the European Union.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called for Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick to resign after serving officer Wayne Couzens raped and murdered Sarah Everard, with the leading MP questioning how a police officer caught exposing himself was allowed to hold a position of authority.

A Swedish cartoonist who had multiple death threats against him for drawing the Islamic prophet Muhammad died in a car crash on Sunday. 

Anti-Brexit activists gathered in Manchester ahead of the Conservative Party Conference, to denounce “zombie” nationalism in Brexit Britain.

The divided Labour Party could see its first defection to the Conservatives since 1977, with three MPs reportedly considering crossing the floor over despair at their party’s leadership.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has accused the haulier industry of being “addicted” to cheap, foreign labour and resisting calls for years to train British drivers and improve working conditions and pay.

Asked about the truck driver shortage crisis, Johnson said it was a “chronic problem” associated with an overreliance on migrant workers willing to work for low wages and poor conditions. He said he wouldn’t repeat that mistake.

A Sri Lankan man faces trial in December after allegedly engaging in sexual intercourse with a goat at least three times at an animal park in Tours, France.

ROME (AP) — A small single-engine plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed Sunday into the side of a vacant two-story office building in a Milan suburb, and Italian news reports said all aboard perished.

The Charity Commission has accused an Islamic charity which doxxed a British teacher who showed his class a caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed of inflaming tensions and risking the safety of the teacher.

ABOARD GEO BARENTS (AP) — Libya’s coast guard Sunday intercepted a wooden boat carrying around 500 Europe-bound migrants off the country’s shore, the U.N. refugee agency said.

Once praised for his pro-migrant welcoming policies, former Riace mayor Domenico “Mimmo” Lucano has been sentenced to 13 years and two months in prison on several charges including aiding illegal migration into Italy.

Insulate Britain spokesman Liam Norton has again evoked World War Two to describe his plight against uninsulated homes, this time comparing those sceptical of the eco-extremist group’s tactics to those who appeased Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.

Matriculating students at St Andrews University must pass courses where they accept their “personal guilt” in order to confront their “unconscious bias” before starting their programme, according to test material seen by The Times.

The Polish government has sent at least 31,000 text messages to migrants near its border with Belarus telling them to go back to Minsk, stating that the Polish border is closed.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II opened the sixth session of the Scottish Parliament on Saturday and reflected on the “deep and abiding affection” she and her late husband, Prince Philip, shared for Scotland.

A Chechen teen girl was allegedly stabbed by her older brother for acting too European and was also raped by her father.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid has told unvaccinated care home staff to “get vaccinated” or “go and get another job” as the deadline for care staff to be double vaccinated against the Chinese coronavirus approaches.