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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed hope that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine would “end sooner” under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

Pope Francis has named pro-LGBT Father Roberto Pasolini “Preacher of the Papal Household,” generating new consternation among the Catholic faithful.

Marking 1,000 days since Russia invaded neighbouring Ukraine, the leaders of the G7 nations committed to supporting Kyiv for “as long as it takes”.

Russia’s state-owned natural gas company Gazprom stopped supplies to Austria early Saturday, according to the Vienna-based utility OMV after it said it would stop payments for the gas following an arbitration award.

Hundreds of enraged farmers took to their tractors and descended upon the Labour Party conference in Wales to protest the leftist government’s planned tax raid on farmers.

The German government has collapsed, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has picked this moment to reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

British athlete Sebastian Coe has promised an “uncompromising and clearcut policy” to protect women’s sports in his bid for IOC president.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has been hit with a massive €797.72 million fine (roughly $840 million) by the European Commission for breaching EU antitrust rules related to its online classified ads service, Facebook Marketplace.

Religiously motivated hate crimes against Christians in Europe jumped by a whopping 226 percent in just one year, according to a grim report by a prominent Christian persecution monitoring group.

Conservative Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was ousted from his Texas diocese by Pope Francis in 2023, has rebuked his fellow U.S. bishops as “silent shepherds” for their failure to speak out against “false messages” coming out of the Vatican.

The economy of the European Union is headed for only modest growth in coming months as consumers regain some of the purchasing power they lost to inflation, the bloc’s executive commission said Friday

At least 10 people died and others were injured in a blaze at a nursing home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain.

A suspected people smuggler was arrested in Amsterdam on Wednesday, accused of supplying small boats to intending illegal migrants for English Channel crossings.

So-called “high-risk” match between France and Israel saw scuffles and protests but thanks to a major police operation little violence. 

A cohort of 113 members of Germany’s Bundestag parliament have signed onto a motion calling for the Federal Constitutional Court to consider banning the right-wing anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore believes a second Donald Trump term in the White House will have little to no impact on the “momentum” of the climate doom agenda and it will roll on “despite” him.

Two environmental activists have been charged over the spraying orange paint powder at the Stonehenge monuments.

Dutch Prime Minister suggests dual nationals involved in antisemitic “pogrom” in Amsterdam could have their citizenship revoked.

Paris police fired tear gas cannisters at violent activists protesting a gala evening fundraising for the IDF on Wednesday night.

A heavy police presence but few visiting fans are expected when France hosts Israel in Nations League soccer on Thursday.

Far-left Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of personally attacking him because of his “ethnicity” and Muslim faith, in comments likely to reignite the Labour politician’s long-running and very public antipathy towards the U.S. president-elect.

Ukraine has resources and expertise to make nuclear weapons if it was forced, a briefing meant for top government figures allegedly says.

Britain’s Orwellian speech police door knocked a veteran journalist on Remembrance Sunday morning over allegedly “stirring up racial hatred” on social media.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said on Wednesday that North Korean troops sent to Russia as mercenaries have moved to the frontlines in Kursk over the past two weeks and are “already engaging in combat” against Ukrainian forces.

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a farewell visit to the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday in which he repeatedly insisted that President Joe Biden would “push every dollar out the door that we have at our disposal” to Ukraine.

Incoming Trump admin openly hostile to UK’s push to give away key strategic islands in the Indian ocean, warns Brexit boss Nigel Farage.

In a glorious snit, the far-left Guardian officially announced this week that it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s Xwitter.

Britain’s top left-wing newspaper, The Guardian, has announced it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X social media platform over “far-right conspiracy theories and racism” and Musk’s decision to campaign for Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election.

The fate of Italian Prime Minsiter Giorgia Meloni’s central immigration policy of sending illegal boat migrants to Albanian detention centres is likely on course to be put in the hands of European Union judges in Luxembourg after Italian magistrates cited EU rulings to justify sending another round of illegals back from Albania to Italy this week.

Russia pushing towards three-quarters of a million casualties in war against Ukraine, Kyiv claims, with toll creeping towards 2,000 a day.

Pope Francis has sent a message to the participants of the United Nations’ COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, urging immediate action to reduce carbon emissions.

The leftist Labour Party government’s plans to impose inheritance tax on British farmers is nothing more than a class warfare ploy to free up space to build houses for immigrants, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed

Four young friends tragically lost their lives when they were trapped inside a burning Tesla Model Y in Canada. Now, additional details of the crash are emerging, including that the car’s electronic door handles were disabled when the electric vehicle lost power.

Dutch populist Geert Wilders led a chorus demanding “rigorous measures” against those involved in the antisemitic violence in Amsterdam over the past week, including potentially removing citizenship from perpetrators.

Israelis in Europe warned to “categorically avoid” being visibly Jewish, yet finding an match to watch is becoming increasingly difficult.

The left-wing Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, announced Tuesday that he will resign from his post following accusations of a Church of England cover-up of child sex abuse.

Germany will elect its next government seven months early as the precarious “progressive coalition” of left-wing and centrists collapsed.