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A last-minute bid to prevent the UK govt spending billions of pounds of taxpayers money to give away its own sovereign territory overturned.

Judge’s dramatic eleventh-hour intervention prevents UK giving away strategically vital Indian Ocean territory housing major U.S. airbase.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is reportedly seeking to impose sanctions to prevent the repair of the Nord Stream pipelines and to prevent the link between Russia and Germany from being restored should a Ukraine peace deal be brokered, sparking a backlash from populists within the top EU economy.

Former Ukrainian Member of Parliament was killed by a fatal head-shot outside his children’s school in Madrid on Wednesday.

First visit since Russia claimed to have routed the counter-invasion, accusing Ukrainian troops of acting like “Neo-Nazis”.

Federal prosecutors take over investigation into mass stabbing allegedly by a Syrian as there may be an Islamist motive to the attack. 

Kevin Spacey, the two-time Oscar-winning “American Beauty” and “House of Cards” star, compared himself to famed blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo when receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Britain’s annual inflation rate charged upwards in April led by household energy and water bills, official data showed on Wednesday.

Director Spike Lee is the latest woke Hollywood celebrity to take aim at President Donald Trump’s suggestion of a 100 percent U.S. tariff on foreign film imports at Cannes this season’s festival.

The coordinator of the Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, told Breitbart News on Tuesday that Cubans “suffer under the same type of regime that Ukrainians suffer” after a Ukrainian lawmaker presented evidence that thousands of Cuban mercenaries are participating in the Russian invasion of their country.

UK suspended trade negotiations with Israel and summoned their ambassador over what the PM called the “intolerable” operation in Gaza. 

An English mother who was sentenced to nearly three years in prison over a social media post in the wake of the horrific murder of three children in Southport has been denied early release by the Court of Appeal.

A second man was charged Tuesday over a series of fires that targeted properties linked to U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, police said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared in a statement following a conversation with President Donald Trump on Monday that his country “is ready for a full and unconditional ceasefire,” asserting that Russia, the invading country, must be convinced to agree to one.

English activist Tommy Robinson will be released from prison within the next week after his 18-month sentence for contempt of court was reduced at a High Court hearing on Tuesday.

Voter intention polling continues to upend centuries of established convention as traditional party of government fall to a fresh low.

Prepare to be watched. The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on Tuesday designed to help it tackle future health crises predicated on an enhanced ability to watch, monitor and surveil specific national responses to threats.

Almost of the people living in Britain feel like “strangers” in their country, appearing to confirm the recent anti-mass migration rhetoric from Labour Party Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Everywhere director Raoul Peck looks he sees America under attack from dark, malevolent forces driven by a President Donald Trump dictatorship. Really, he does.

France is “determined” to recognise a Palestinian state, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning Israel.

The UK, which is unusual in not having civil or home defence, will create a new local force to protect infrastructure like power plants.

Germany saw two mass stabbings over the weekend at the suspected hands of migrants, leaving eight injured, including an 11-year-old girl.

Russia’s state statistical agency, Rosstat, reported on Friday that first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth was only 1.4 percent, a steep decline from 4.5 percent growth in the last quarter of 2024.

Film director Wes Anderson took a shot at Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on foreign films during his comments at the Cannes Film Festival.

Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV on Monday and gave the Chicago-born pontiff a Bears football jersey inscribed with his title.

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that Ukraine and Russia would begin negotiations toward a ceasefire and suggested that talks could take place at the Vatican.

British Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer has hailed a “new era” with the European Union as he unveiled a post-Brexit “reset” deal on Monday. Yet opponents have accused the left-wing government of “surrendering” to Brussels on key areas, including granting the bloc access to UK fishing waters for over a decade.

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, has claimed that the head of France’s foreign intelligence agency asked him to ban Romanian conservatives ahead of the country’s elections, a request he says he refused.

Reverend Franklin Graham is asking people to pray for President Donald Trump as he prepares for important conversations with the goal of ending the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Rock star Bruce Springsteen has refused to quit his criticism of the USA under President Donald Trump after being told to “keep his mouth shut.”

The moderators of the Reddit community dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest shut down the page entirely for 12 hours after the Grand Final in the early morning hours of Sunday due to “hate speech and strong emotional reactions.”

Lineker will leave his role after facing criticism for reposting an Instagram story about Zionism which featured a picture of a rat.

Trump will speak with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine on Monday. The Kremlin confirms their conversation is fixed for 10AM Eastern. 

Portugal’s populist anti-immigration Chega Party has scored its best ever election result with a record vote share confirmed Monday that marked the end of the country’s two-party dominance.

UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer continued his hardline rhetoric on migration over the weekend, admitting that the country has become “addicted to cheap” migrant workers to the detriment of young Britons. Yet the PM is reportedly on the cusp of a deal to open up more young migration from the EU to Britain.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) began its annual nine-day meeting Monday on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with upwards of eight thousand attendees flying in for the event from all around the world. The elites gathered as the United Nations subsidiary began crying poor and publicly doubting its ability to ever again meet crises like the coronavirus epidemic after U.S. funding cuts struck at the heart of its finances.