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The Lancet has been accused of dehumanising women after using the phrase “bodies with vaginas” to describe the fairer sex.

GENEVA (AP) – Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán believes the mass migration agenda is part of a “global plan” to create a “new proletariat” in the West, advanced by people who care nothing for culture and national identity and consider only economics.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has praised the efforts of national conservative governments in Central Europe to reverse demographic decline through pro-family policies over mass migration in Budapest.

Openly homosexual Church of Sweden priest Lars Gårdfeldt has vowed to refuse marriage ceremonies for straight people in protest of a loophole that allows priests to refuse to marry homosexual couples.

England’s Court of Appeal has reversed a High Court decision restricting the use of trans drugs on children, with “detransitioners” worried the ruling may have put “children as young as 10” on “a pathway to sterilisation” again.

Twelve bishops at the increasingly woke Church of England have penned an open letter to the government urging them not to turn back illegal migrant boats coming from safe, EU member-state France, published by the leftist Guardian. 

Scotland’s left-separatist government has published its astonishing new agenda for “Embedding race equality in schools”, pushing documents which teach woke ideology on “white privilege”, “white fragility”, “decolonising the curriculum”, “structural racism”, and the alleged non-existence of “reverse racism” as fact.

New Zealand’s parliament took a historic portrait of Sir Winston Churchill in response to Green Party lobbying, with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern brushing the incident off with a flat “I don’t care.” 

Scotland’s left-separatist Scottish National Party (SNP) government has issued official guidance to schools saying they can assist supposedly transgender pupils to change their gender identity from the age of four, without telling their parents.

The British Olympic team is too white, said a board member of Sport England, who called for a “revolution” in how athletes are selected.

Referring to Indian food as “curry” is a racist relic of British colonialism, according to woke academics and food influencers.

The woke, low-ratings Tokyo Olympics may be followed by an even woker games in 2024, with organisers already emphasising inclusivity and gender politics.

A judge ruled that an atheist train operator has a right to his beliefs after he was fired for critical comments about Islamic states.

Swedish Liberal Party leader Nyamko Sabuni has called for the European Union to take a “hard-line” against Hungary and Poland over LGBT issues, “even if it means that authoritarian states leave the Union”.

Hungary is bearing the brunt of the anger of the “fever swamps of the liberal Twittersphere” after FNC’s Tucker Carlson announced he would be hosting his show from Budapest this week.

A far-left extremist group have desecrated a memorial to soldiers who fought in the First World War in Hamburg, painting over parts of the monument to make it state “Germany must die”.

The former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, has issued a scathing indictment of Pope Francis, calling him “the head of the most extremist faction of progressivism.”

BERLIN (AP) – Some 35,000 revellers marched for LGBTQ rights at Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, twice as many as expected.

Diane Abbott and a group of leftist protesters “took the knee” outside of Downing Street on in “solidarity” with black British footballers.

Brexit champion Nigel Farage has been invited to host a new show on GB News four days a week – shortly after the broadcaster temporarily dropped to “zero” viewers when a host took the knee in solidarity with BLM-inspired footballers.

Athletes should avoid “divisive” political statements during the Tokyo Olympics, the president of the International Olympic Committee said.

(AP) — The British women’s soccer team will take a knee before kickoff at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Hungarian Speaker has spoken out against the “new totalitarian ambition” of liberalism in the European Union, saying he would not vote to join the bloc today. 

Maltese Labour MEP Cyrus Engerer, convicted of distributing revenge porn in 2014, will lead the European Union’s battle against Hungary’s law banning the teaching of LGBT and gender issues to children.

First Nations Christians spoke of being left “heartbroken” after their historic Anglican church burned to the ground amid the ongoing wave of arson attacks and statue-smashing sweeping Canada.

The executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA), Harsha Walia, is under fire for commenting on a story about the wave of church arsons sweeping Canada by saying “Burn it all down.”

The EU’s encroachment on Hungary’s education system through LGBT diktats threatens the country’s way of life, Viktor Orbán has warned

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – Croatian police have detained several people over incidents during and after this weekend’s Pride march in the capital of Zagreb.

A native totem pole was set on fire on Canada’s Vancouver Island in what is suspected to be retaliation for the destruction of a statue of Captain James Cook.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a highly equivocal denunciation of the wave of church arsons and statue smashing sweeping Canada, calling the attacks “unacceptable” but defending the anger fueling them as “fully understandable”.

University of Connecticut Law Professor Mathilde Cohen raised the hackles of quite a few French people last week when she told a bewildered audience at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Nanterre that eating French food is an expression of “White Privilege.”

Ten churches in Alberta were vandalised in a single day as Canada continues to see churches, primarily Roman Catholic, burned to the ground in several provinces over the past month.

Transgender women who were born as men can legally be placed in female-only prisons in England and Wales, the UK’s High Court has ruled.

A Canadian radio personality called for the burning of churches, as news outlets have reported more Catholic and Anglican churches being burned in parts of the country, primarily on First Nations reserves.

Woke mobs have ripped down statues of the Queen, her ancestor Queen Victoria, and explorer Captain James Cook in Canada.