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Actor Kevin Spacey is returning to movies with an appearance in an indie Italian film. The former “House of Cards” star, whose career collapsed under multiple sex abuse allegations, has been cast in a small role in “The Man Who Drew God” from actor-director Franco Nero.

A Black Lives Matter activist has claimed the ‘Black Panther of Oxford’, Sasha Johnson, may have been the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting of a house party by a gang.

Austrian counter-terrorism authorities say they have seized three firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and paramilitary equipment after a raid on “corona deniers” they claim were planning attacks on police.

The British government has been reported to have secretly surveilled the movements of millions of citizens to track changes in behaviour following the administration of coronavirus vaccines.

Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh has praised the “enormous support” for the Palestinian cause amid ongoing pro-Palestinian protests in European capitals in which Israel has been compared to Nazi Germany.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be imprisoned for “war crimes” against the Palestinian people, far-left Labour MP John McDonnell said on Saturday at a protest in London.

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday, marching from the Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park, where some pro-Palestinian activists were seen burning the Israeli flag.

A radicalised Syrian refugee who came to Germany during the height of the migrant crisis has been sentenced to life in prison for an attack on a gay couple that led to the death of a 55-year-old man.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage declared that “London in 2021 is not a safe place to be” following footage emerging of pro-Palestinian activists attacking a car during a demonstration against Israel on Saturday.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany say they are investigating a Jewish man’s report of being punched in the face and abused with antisemitic language while walking home in Berlin early Saturday.

A French police officer, who was brutally beaten by youths after they refused to leave an area because it was the Islamic holiday of Eid, has awoken from a coma and called on politicians to do more to stop the ongoing violence against police.

“Embittered” employees of the Vatican City State have written an open letter to Pope Francis protesting recent across-the-board cuts in salary.

The victims of two Islamist terror attacks on British soil have been remembered on Saturday, May 22nd: Fusilier Lee Rigby and the 22 victims of the Manchester bombing.

LONDON (AP) — Tony Hall, who was director of BBC news and current affairs at the time of the public broadcaster’s explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana, resigned Saturday as board chairman of Britain’s National Gallery.

Good Morning Britain’s Shillary is a hypocrite so rank that it’s a wonder even breakfast TV viewers still take him seriously.

Swedish authorities say that a couple suspected of planning terrorist offences fooled the country’s Migration Agency with false identities, claiming to be from Afghanistan when they are actually believed to be Iranians.

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II made a quick visit Saturday to the Royal Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier that bears the name of her eponymous forebear, ahead of its maiden operational deployment.

Animal rights activists have blockaded four McDonald’s distribution centres in England, holding protest materials reading demands for a “plant based food system” and claiming “meat & dairy = climate crisis”.

An Afghan migrant accused of going on a stabbing rampage in Sweden first tried to claim asylum in Norway and claimed to be a minor after applying for refugee status in Sweden a year later.

Germany has banned non-essential travel from the United Kingdom over “concern” of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, as cases of the strain spike by 80 per cent in London.

MADRID (AP) — The parliament of Catalonia elected a new regional leader and government Friday, with the incoming administration vowing no let-up in the Catalan fight for independence from Spain.

Just days after thousands of migrants stormed the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta, hundreds attempted to cross into Spain’s other territory, Melilla.

Morocco has already taken back over 6,600 of the migrants who made it to Ceuta, Spanish authorities said. Entering the city put them in European Union territory. Hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers attempt to reach Europe from Africa each year.

AMSTERDAM (AP) — One person was killed and four were injured in a stabbing late Friday night in Amsterdam and police said they arrested a suspect nearby.

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has that a report which revealed the “damning failings at the heart of the BBC” related to the 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, may prompt a government review of the public broadcaster.

(AFP) — Cyprus said Friday it is in a “state of emergency” because of an inflow of Syrian migrants that has flooded its reception centres, appealing for help from the European Union. Cyprus has this week faced a “daily wave of

Police unions claim that up to 35,000 police officers and citizens demonstrated against anti-police violence in front of the lower house of the French parliament in Paris.

In a Thursday press conference with Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod and Greenland’s premier, Mute Egede, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed to reporters that the United States is not interested in purchasing Greenland, Reuters reported.

Prince Harry has claimed that travelling to London is a “trigger” for his anxiety and revealed that he was “afraid” to return to the UK for his grandfather Prince Philip’s funeral.

Meghan Markle’s husband Prince Harry has launched an all-out attack on his family, alleging “total neglect” and saying his mother was “chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone who wasn’t white”.

Prince William has criticised the BBC for its handling of the 1995 Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, after a report found that journalist Martin Bashir had used deception to obtain the interview. The Prince said the details of the deception had contributed to the worsening of his parents’ relationship and “contributed significantly” to his mother’s “fear, paranoia, and isolation” in the last years of her life.

An Italian judge has agreed to drop a case against German migrant taxi NGO captain and activist Carola Rackete, who rammed several law enforcement boats to get migrants to Italy in 2019.

Ambassadors from member states of the European Union have backed a proposal to allow international travellers to enter Europe under the proviso that they are fully vaccinated.

For the first time in two years, the Eurovision Song Contest will take place on Saturday, pitting the countries of Europe (and some invited interlopers, like the American rapper Flo-Rida) against each other to see who can write the catchiest pop song of the year.

Oxford University’s Oriel College has rejected a commission’s recommendation to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the British mining magnate and former prime minister of the Cape Colony.

The death rate in England has now fallen to its lowest since the Office for National Statistics (ONS) began recording figures in 2001.