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A man was shot and killed by German police in the state of Baden-Württemberg on New Year’s Eve after stealing an excavator and going on a violent rampage with the vehicle.

Abortion was the leading cause of death globally in 2024, with a record 45 million unborn babies killed in the womb, according to data provided by Worldometer.

A driver ran down two New Zealand police officers down as they patrolled on foot in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing one and seriously injuring the other, the country’s police chief said.

Violence reigned in the New Year in Brussels as miscreants attacked police and firefighters and set dozens of fires in the de-facto capital of the European Union.

Speaking from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace and ancestral home of British wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill, Nigel Farage acknowledged that the United Kingdom is facing many struggles, many of which self-imposed by both Westminster establishment parties, but also stressed that there signs of optimism heading into the new year.

A man has been arrested after several people were injured Tuesday in an apparent Berlin knife attack, which resulted in two people being hospitalised.

Multicultural Europe with history of extreme New Year’s Eve violence including the harrowing Cologne mass sex attacks prepares for violence.

London’s leftist mayor, Sadiq Khan, will be honoured with a knighthood despite his limited accomplishments and failure to tackle crime.

Musk promoted the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) in unambiguous terms in a column, prompting the publication’s opinions editor to resign.

President Joe Biden on Monday announced a military aid package for $2.5 billion for Ukraine, and vowed to continue “surging” aid for the remainder of his time in office.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

Investigation into how the Germany Christmas market attack was allowed to happen descends into bickering and finger-pointing.

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly set to become the first elected head of state to be hosted for a second state visit with the British Royal Family.

An Anglican LGBTQ+ group argues that the Bible affirms transgender identity, asserting that “not everyone in the Bible is cisgender.”

“Harry Potter” creator and women’s rights activist J.K. Rowling has told her fans on social media that there is no such thing as a transgender kid and that no child is born in the “wrong body.”

At least three illegal migrants died while trying to cross the English Channel in a small people-smuggler operated boat on Sunday morning, making this year the deadliest on record since the crisis began.

Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in a groundbreaking move for European Union nations.

President accused of vanity project as he pushes to replace historic stained glass that survived fire intact for ‘contemporary gesture’.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday after being diagnosed with a urinary tract infection, his office says.

If an election were held today, Labour would lose its majority and nearly 200 seats as Farage’s Reform UK party rises, a poll has found.

After 14 years in opposition and five months in government, left-wing Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has seemingly run out of ideas and written to the UK’s main regulators pleading for direct action initiatives that will help boost the country’s stalled economy.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has threatened to sue his Tory counterpart Kemi Badenoch if she fails to apologise for accusing the populist party of faking numbers showing Reform surpassed the Conservatives in paid members.

Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people.

The International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC) has written an open letter to Pope Francis criticizing his “one-sided perspective” in the Gaza conflict.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk, a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico has offered up his country as a potential venue for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine just days after meeting with Vladimir Putin in Moscow.

Russian-linked ‘dark fleet’ ship suspected of cutting cables on Christmas Day may have been also moonlighting as a signals intelligence ship.

Mohamed Salah, one of England’s most popular soccer stars, has been taking heat from some fans on social media.

U.S. officials say the United States is expected to announce it will send another $1.25 billion in military assistance to Ukraine.

The Russian government on Friday struggled to manage international outrage over the increasing likelihood that a Russian surface-to-air missile brought down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight J2-8243 on Wednesday, killing 38 of its passengers.

The younger brother of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has died, Downing Street said in a statement Friday. Nick Starmer, who was 60, had cancer and died Thursday.

Over 150,000 illegal boat migrants have landed on British shores since the crisis began in earnest in 2018 as hundreds more crossed the English Channel on Christmas and Boxing Day.

City and its police department may be held criminally liable for failing to prevent last week’s Christmas market attack that killed five,.

Nearly 70 migrants died when their boat sank as they tried to reach Spain earlier this month, Mali´s Minister for Malians Living Abroad said.

NATO moved Friday to enhance its naval presence in the Baltic Sea as Estonia’s navy began patrolling an undersea cable supplying energy from Finland.

It is time for democracy to find answers to economic stagnation, mass migration, and wars in Europe and the Middle East, the President said.