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Suspect Axel Muganwa Rudakubana was due to plead on murder charges in Crown Court on Friday but the date has been scotched without explanation.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday held wide-ranging discussions.

Crackdown sees seven charged in “first wave” of arrests against trolls of the creator of the Paris 2024 Olympics LGBT-themed ceremony.

An attack by a teenager who broke into a police station in northwest Bosnia, killing one officer, was described as an act of terrorism.

The UK must now rebuild its defence stockpiles and its military forces are not ready to fight a war, Britain’s Defence Secretary warns. 

An analysis from a left-wing think tank has found that the average cost of housing and supporting supposed asylum seekers in Britain has more than doubled over the past four years.

At least one person was killed and four people injured when a train running along Norway’s northern coast derailed Thursday with 55 people on board, police said.

France’s culture minister proposed introducing an entrance fee to Notre Dame Cathedral when it reopens to raise funds to preserve churches.

Nigel Farage has called upon all local Conservative Party councillors to defect and join his populist Reform UK party ahead of the English county council elections next May, arguing that the Tory brand is “broken” after numerous betrayals.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would support Lebanon with 100 million euros, as Paris hosted an aid conference with big financial aims but slim diplomatic prospects.

The Irish parliament passed hate crime legislation on Wednesday evening, which includes within it a self-identifying definition of gender.

Gay-rights activist Father Timothy Radcliffe has denied reports that he attributed the African Church’s resistance to homosexuality to an influx of foreign money, insisting that his words were “misinterpreted.”

WNBA rookie star Caitlin Clark has leaped ahead of American soccer stars to become the fourth most marketable athlete in the world.

Controversy struck a Spanish women’s soccer team after two bearded players transitioning from female to male appeared in their last game.

The Center for Countering Digital Hate, a leftist pressure group associated with England’s Labour Party, is seeking to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” by harassing X advertisers in an apparent attempt to meddle in U.S. elections by causing the demise of one of the few social media platforms that allows people to speak freely without being easily banned. “This is war,” a furious Musk declared in response. Musk vows to “go after” the organization and its donors.

Lord Waheed Alli, the Labour Party megadonor at the centre of the donations scandal, has been found to have violated House of Lords rules regarding declaring interests.

Indonesian Bishop Paskalis Bruno Syukur has declined Pope Francis’s appointment to become a cardinal, a highly unusual response to an honor of this type.

South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) director Cho Tae-yong told lawmakers on Wednesday that 3,000 North Korean troops are already in Russia, training and preparing for deployment against Ukraine.

Breaking from tradition, the populist Freedom Party will not be given a chance to form a government despite winning last month’s elections.

A far-left French MP was caught buying drugs from a minor in Paris in the latest scandal to beset the leftist New Popular Front coalition.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin held an hour-long meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Tuesday in the sidelines of the ongoing BRICS summit, describing China-Russia relations as an example to the world and a “stabilizing” force in the world.

French maritime authorities pulled the bodies of two migrants from the English Channel on Wednesday, pushing the count of dead and missing in French waters so far this year above 50.

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against the UK’s left-wing Labour Party, accusing it of “blatant foreign interference” in the U.S. election by sending staffers to campaign for Kamala Harris in swing states.

The UK should deport foreign criminals rather than releasing prisoners back onto the streets, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage argued.

Fast & Furious star Idris Elba plans to move to Africa within the next decade and settle there, the London-born actor told the BBC on Tuesday.

Bohdan Krotevch, acting commander of Ukraine’s controversial Azov Brigade, on Sunday suggested that now might be a good time for South Korea to attack North Korea and reunite the Korean Peninsula, since the North has dispatched so many of its best troops to help Russia fight in Ukraine.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau lauded a handgun ban he put in place and the Toronto Police Association (TPA) responded Monday by claiming the ban “has not worked.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and former NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg will be knighted in Sweden for their role in helping the nation join the military alliance.

Chris Kaba, who was elevated to George Floyd-esque martyrdom status in Britain after being killed during an altercation with police in 2022, has now been revealed to have been a serial violent criminal offender and a member of one of London’s most feared gangs, which put out a hit on a police officer following Kaba’s death.

The erstwhile CEO of fashion brand Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F) Mike Jeffries and his British partner have been arrested and are facing sex trafficking charges.

French authorities were hunting Tuesday for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital, with his parents identified as the chief suspects.

German prosecutors said Tuesday they have filed an indictment against a man who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Iraq and planned to carry out an attack in Germany on its behalf.

So much for fond farewells and lingering goodbyes. Dunedin Airport in New Zealand has introduced a strict rule for their passenger departure drop-off zone — capping “hug time” at three minutes with those seeking more time told to move along so as not to obstruct traffic.

The Council of Ministers of Giorgia Meloni’s government in Italy approved a decree law on Monday evening officially declaring 19 nations as “safe” for returning illegal migrants, as a full-on constitutional battle has broken out over the Albania scheme.

A number of bishops have begun pushing back against an effort to endow local Church bodies with authority over doctrine, warning that this would lead to a splintering of the Church’s teaching.

A leftist OnlyFans model has pled guilty to assaulting Reform UK leader Nigel Farage as he was campaigning for his seat in Clacton in June.