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The victims of two terror attacks on British soil that took place on May 22nd in 2013 and 2017 have been remembered, and with a Church service in honouring first responders to the Manchester bombing, while the nation’s terror threat level remains at severe.

The president of the Pontifical Academy for Life used powerful words Wednesday to condemn the culture of death, calling modern practices such as abortion and euthanasia “evils” from which the world must “flee in horror.”

Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has dramatically increased its lead in the polls with one day left before the European elections, a survey shows.

Denmark will be looking to make temporary border controls permanent due to the threat of terrorism and mass migration, defying the European Union Schengen agreement.

Brexiteer Tories have come out against Theresa May’s plan to allow MPs to vote on a second referendum if they pass her EU-approved treaty, with some lawmakers calling for the prime minister to be ousted.

Police are investigating claims that LGBT activists were harassed, intimidated, and pelted with eggs outside a primary school in Birmingham where a row has blown up between the activists and Muslim parents over the teaching of LGBT issues to children.

Hungarian conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called on voters to send a “strong message” of change to Brussels during the European Parliament elections, highlighting the importance of strong borders.

Leader of the left-progressive group in the European Parliament Guy Verhofstadt has said that in order to compete with the rest of the world, the European Union must become an “empire.”

Václav Klaus, the Czech statesman who came to prominence during the anti-communist Velvet Revolution in 1989 and who subsequently became both Prime Minister and President of the central European country made a surprise speech the Brexit Party’s Rally for Democracy in London on Tuesday.

The Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has amassed at least 5,000 fighters along the country’s northern border with former Soviet republics in Central Asia, a top Russian security official cautioned on Tuesday, noting that many of them fought in Syria.

A woman who worked as the head of policy at the charity Happy City called for an acid attack on Nigel Farage after the Brexit Party leader had had a milkshake thrown at him.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that “radicalised” Remainers threaten to break down the UK’s democratic system.

In the latest example of threatening political behaviour sweeping Europe, a youth branch of the left-wing German SPD (Social Democrat Party) has posted a picture of a member wearing a hoody with the European Union flag on while holding a baseball bat with a caption threatening nationalists.

A poll has put the late Margaret Thatcher in a wide lead as the British prime minister from recent history that people would trust to lead Brexit negotiations.

Apparently having failed to learn the lesson of her party being trounced in the polls by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, British Prime Minister Theresa May has further distanced herself from the British public by setting the process in motion for a second referendum. 

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is now facing a potential vote of non-confidence from the populist Freedom Party (FPÖ) after a wave of resignations following the firing of Interior Minister Herbert Kickl.

Nigel Farage has railed against the Electoral Commission in an impassioned interview on LBC radio and at a speech in Bolton.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is set to launch an attack on the “populist right” and reject that the UK could ever leave the EU in a clean break.

The Vatican has issued a rare statement protesting attempts to euthanize Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old Frenchman left disabled by a road accident in 2008.

Senior European Union officials have once again intervened in a British election, as European Council President Donald Tusk urges Londoners to back his preferred candidate when voting on Thursday.

A Paris appeals court Monday ordered the resumption of basic care for Vincent Lambert, a 42-year-old quadriplegic whose nutrition and hydration had been discontinued.

Populists are the “enemy” of Europe and seek to destroy the continent’s globalist “values”, Angela Merkel has warned ahead of European Parliament elections this week.

German police on Tuesday will hand over to Israel thousands of stolen papers and manuscripts belonging to Max Brod, the friend and literary executor of Czech writer Franz Kafka.

Italy’s interior minister says an immigrant from North Africa has been arrested for an arson fire at a police station in northern Italy that killed two and injured more than a dozen.

Tory grandee and ardent anti-Brexit peer Lord Heseltine has had the party whip suspended for saying he would vote for the Liberal Democrats.

Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky stepped into his new role as Ukraine president with his inauguration on Monday, launching a new era for the country wracked by war and economic difficulties.

A controversial French rapper has come under fire for a new video in which he strangles a white woman wearing Christian jewellery, symbolising the country of France, while singing, “I f**k France, I burn France.”

The Brexit Party has taken a massive 17-point lead over the pro-Remain Welsh nationalist party in Wales in a poll ahead of Thursday’s European Parliament elections.

Rees-Mogg is clear-sighted, articulate and devastatingly frank about the problems facing the Conservatives as a result of their disastrous mishandling of Brexit.

At a rally where the Brexit leader implored campaigners to be “happy warriors” in the final days of the EU election campaign, Nigel Farage invited scrutiny of the foreign funding of the remain campaign.

Christians have slammed a vicar for being “ashamed of the gospel” after she offered to “cover” a crucifix and a painting of Jesus in order to host Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan in an English church.

Elba Island has launched an ambitious program to combat inaccurate weather forecasts by reimbursing tourists’ hotel fees if it rains for more than two hours on any given day.

A new leaked document shows that Theresa May’s plans for a ‘new’ Brexit withdrawal agreement contains no new ideas or any substantial changes that are likely to see it passed in the Commons.

French doctors have begun the procedure of forcibly euthanizing Vincent Lambert by removing the nourishment and water necessary for him to continue living.

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has just been assaulted with a milkshake. There is nothing funny or clever about these milkshake attacks which so far have been directed solely at campaigners who believe in Brexit, never at campaigners agitating for Remain.

Socialist leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has backed suggestions that the UK should pay reparations to former colonies of the British Empire.