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Growing sectarianism saw pro-Gaza candidates continue to take votes away from the multicultural Labour Party during the council elections in England this week, following a trend which began in last year’s general election.

Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the conclave to elect a new pope and began taking measures to block any electronic interference with their deliberations, as jockeying continued Saturday outside over who among the cardinals was in the running.

The far-left LGBTQ+ Stonewall group’s charitable status may come into question over accusations of having violated rules governing charities, after it appeared to argue that organisations could disregard the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on transgenderism. 

Irish hip hop group Kneecap continues to experience a loss of gigs after they hit the stage yelling “f**k Israel” at Coachella on April 18.

The Trump administration has accused Berlin of acting in a tyrannical manner after a top intelligence agency officially branded the populist AfD party as an “extremist” group over its stance against mass migration, paving the way for more government spying against the right-wing party.

Early vote counting in Australia’s general election Saturday suggested the government was likely to be returned for a second term.

A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv wounded 47 people, Ukraine said, while Russia claimed five were injured in strikes on Novorossiysk.

Prince Harry has lost his legal fight for security protection in the United Kingdom, the news coming after he and his wife, Meghan Markle, said they had no plans on moving their family back to Britain.

TikTok has been hit with a massive $600 million (€530 million) fine by the Irish Data Protection Commission for violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by sending European users’ data to servers in China.

Men have been banned from competing in all levels of women’s cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced Friday, moving 24-hours after the Football Association (FA) made a similar decision.

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird, is it a plane? No it’s a … Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s now hurtling in an uncontrolled descent back to Earth, possibly landing anywhere on the planet within the first two weeks of May.

A 16-year-old who recently returned to Sweden from Somalia has been arrested following an apparent gangland hit that left three dead in the city of Uppsala this week.

Preparations for the conclave progressed with installation of chimney from Sistine Chapel to signal election of a successor to Pope Francis.

Award-winning singer-songwriter Jill Sobule, who first strode into the public spotlight with the gay-themed song “I Kissed a Girl,” died Thursday in a house fire. She was 66.

The U.S. hailed a new step, stating Ukraine was willing to “give up land”, but a top Eurocrat has called that unacceptable.

The French government told parliamentarians this week that it will take steps to ban one of the leading far-left Antifa groups in the country amid allegations of using violence against political opponents.

Reform gained new MP by just six votes, won its first mayor, and picked up more councillors than all other parties combined in early results.

WASHINGTON — George Simion, the leading candidate in the upcoming Romanian presidential election, told Breitbart News that if he wins and if a similarly conservative anti-globalist candidate wins in Poland in presidential elections in May that President Donald Trump will have two major new allies in the European Union.

At least two Canadian transgender performers have cancelled events in the U.S. over President Trump’s transgender policies.

Five people injured, some seriously, after a Maypole erected to celebrate ancient customs relating to May Day fell on the crowd of spectators. 

Incoming legislation pitched as banning foreign sex criminals from gaining asylum in Britain has come under fire for failing to prevent migrant criminals from appealing to so-called human rights legislation to remain in the country.

British counter terrorism police investigate band that denied supporting Hamas and Hezbollah or inciting violence against UK politicians.

Ukraine has already agreed it will “de facto” concede land held by Russia for a ceasefire and peace process, Trump’s Special Envoy has said.

A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on Thursday.

Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo scored a goal Sunday in his team’s crushing 5-1 win over Tottenham in the Premier League. He has now been officially reprimanded for immediately displaying a t-shirt with the message “I Belong to Jesus” in the moments after.

British police are searching for a drone operator who is suspected of dropping eggs and stink bombs at a migrant hotel in England and posting the footage on social media.

Men will no longer be able to play in women’s football in England from 1 June, the Football Association (FA) announced Thursday.

President Donald Trump saluted the deal as saving America from “looking foolish” for having funded the Ukraine War in return for nothing. 

The populist-sovereigntist leaders of Hungary and Slovakia warned this week that Brussels risks destroying the fabric of the European Union if the ascension of Ukraine into the bloc is forced through over their objections.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that Ukraine has signed a “historic economic partnership agreement” with the United States that establishes the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund and allows the U.S. access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals.

Nigel Farage will face his biggest test since the Brexit referendum at Thursday’s elections as his Reform UK party seeks to overturn the two-party Westminster establishment and build a base to bring populist governance to Downing Street.

The green lobby’s “purist” solutions of simply ending carbon altogether is “totally misguided”, Tony Blair wrote.

A large group of film industry stars and executives have signed in a letter to protest a ruling by Britain’s Supreme Court against transgenderism.

Amal Clooney, the British human rights lawyer married to Hollywood star George Clooney, could be banned from the United States because of her work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) targeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a report.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany ´s center-left Social Democrats have approved a deal to join a new coalition government, paving the way for parliament to elect conservative leader Friedrich Merz as the country´s new chancellor. The party of outgoing Chancellor Olaf

Nigel Farage has joined a cross party effort to force the left-wing Labour government to launch a national inquiry into the failures to safeguard young girls from Muslim child rape grooming gangs as his party said it will include a pledge to hold a national inquiry in its next election manifesto.