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French police evacuated the area around the Eiffel Tower after a man was seen climbing the Paris landmark before the Olympic closing ceremony.

Two illegal boat migrants died in the English Channel on Sunday morning after setting sail from the beaches of France in an unstable dinghy.

Taylor Swift’s concerts at Wembley Stadium in London later this month are set to go ahead as planned – with probable added security measures specifically deployed to foil potential terrorists.

Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races in the Seine River at the Paris Olympics.

Sectarian violence was rekindled in Northern Ireland on Saturday night as police were attacked with petrol bombs following a pro-unionist demonstration that took place in the city.

US gymnast Jordan Chiles has lost her bronze medal in the Paris Olympics women’s floor exercise after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled Saturday that the judging panel improperly granted an inquiry that moved her up from fifth.

The London offices of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party were surrounded by hundreds of leftist protesters on Saturday.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk branded former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf as “super racist” and claimed he “loathes white people.”

Moscow on Saturday mounted a “counter-terror operation” to halt Kyiv’s biggest cross-border offensive in the two-and-a-half-year conflict.

More will leave Sweden than arrive in 2024, a major turnaround for the country once the most enthusiastic adopter of mass migration in Europe.

Imane Khelif, the Algerian Olympic fighter alleged to have male chromosomes, defeated China’s Yang Liu on Friday by unanimous decision to clinch the gold medal in the women’s welterweight division.

Ukraine’s state-run Ukrinform news service on Wednesday reported that Ukrainians who live in Minnesota are pleased with the “firm pro-Ukrainian stance” of Gov. Tim Walz (D), who is currently embroiled in a scandal due to exaggerating his military service for political gain after being tapped as Vice President Kamala Harris’s running mate.

International Olympics President Thomas Bach told reporters on Friday that there is “no scientific way” to tell a man from a woman.

A now-suspended Labour Party councillor who allegedly called for the throats of right-wing activists to be cut has appeared in court.

Alysha Newman, a Canadian pole vaulter and social media content creator, twerked after her bronze medal-winning performance earlier this week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on Thursday that Russia “should feel what it has done to his country,” apparently obliquely referencing an ongoing reported invasion of Russian territory by Ukrainian troops that began this week.

UK eyes crackdown on social media, while a Covid-era government spy team monitoring the public for “disinformation” has been brought back. 

PARIS — – US rapper Travis Scott was arrested early Friday over a fight at a five-star hotel in the French capital, prosecutors said.

Elon Musk puzzles why the UK media just parrots the government, Brexit leader points to stubborn refusal to accept they’ve got things wrong. 

Noah Lyles, the U.S.100-meter champion proclaimed by many to be the fastest man in the world, won bronze in the men’s 200-meter race on Wednesday while stricken with COVID, according to reports.

The head of Algeria’s Olympic Committee is blaming “the Zionist lobby” for the ongoing controversy over the Algerian Olympics boxer.

Russians living in the border region of Kursk are criticizing the slow and confused response by civic and military officials to the Ukrainian military incursion that began on Tuesday.

Ksenia Karelina, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Russia, pleaded guitly to “treason” after being left out of a prisoner swap deal.

The prime suspect in bomb plot to kill Taylor Swift fans at a concert in Vienna “today or tomorrow” has been revealed.

A BBC Olympics commentator was corrected live on the air by his broadcast partner for calling a U.S. shot putter a “her.”

A Labour politician has been suspended after calling for political opponents to have their throat cuts at a left-wing rally in London.

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said that he is considering leaving the UK as a result of the anti-mass migration riots.

Polling taken the week following mass stabbing of children triggering border control riots shows immigration has leapfrogged other concerns.

VIENNA — Organizers of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna this week called them off on Wednesday after officials announced arrests over an apparent plot to launch an attack on an event in the Vienna area such as the concerts.

Thomas Craig, a member of the Australian field hockey team, is speaking out after his arrest for allegedly purchasing cocaine in Paris.

The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Tuesday that about 300 Ukrainian troops penetrated the border on a sabotage mission into Russia’s Kursk region and engaged Russian forces near the border towns of Nikolaevo-Darino and Oleshnya.

Lin Yu-ting, the Olympic Taiwanese fighter at the center of a gender controversy that has made international headlines, defeated female Turkish fighter Esra Yildiz Kahraman by unanimous decision on Wednesday night, securing Yu-ting’s advancement to the gold medal round.

Members of the far-left Spanish environmentalist organization Vegetable Future vandalized the Ibiza home of Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi.

An ISIS terror plot at a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, Austria, was thwarted on Wednesday after authorities arrested two men allegedly connected to planned terrorist attacks at big events in the European city, which included the pop star’s upcoming shows.

A top police officer in Birmingham has seemingly admitted that there is a “two-tier” approach from law enforcement towards different ethnicities in Britain.

Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso is now hinting to fans that she might go in for a surprising career change.