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One of Germany’s ruling government parties has demanded that Germany “immediately” take in even more migrants despite the country’s ongoing gas crisis.

Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) slammed the Belgian government’s plans to return terrorists who planned a major attack in France in 2018 to Iran “to plot more terroristic acts” in a “shameful” deal with “the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.” He further warned it would make Europe and the Americas “ripe for more terrorism” at the hands of the Islamic Republic.

Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions protested with tractors, the latest actions in a summer of discontent.

The UK is trying to find out who hacked the army´s social media accounts over the weekend, flooding them with cryptocurrency videos.

Schools and hotels in Britain and Ireland are reportedly now struggling to keep some beef dishes on the menu due to ever-inflating prices.

Israel and Poland have agreed to restore ambassadors, essentially ending a political spat that began a year ago after Warsaw passed a bill limiting Jews from reclaiming property lost in the Holocaust.

Multi-billion-pound multinationals were out in force at a huge Pride parade in London on Saturday, with Coca-Cola sending drag queens and others in company branding to drum up support.

Britain’s ministry of defence has predicted that Ukrainian food exports will fall by nearly two-thirds this year.

If you’re stuck in a line somewhere waiting to board a regular commercial flight or queueing on arrival in the vain hope you’ll soon be reunited with your baggage, one thing is certain.

Dutch prosecutors arrested a 27-year-old Polish man suspected of organizing the killing of well-known crime reporter Peter R. de Vries.

Children, including those with disabilities, are being labelled “transphobic” by their schools and bullied by their peers for not using the desired pronouns.

The “worldwide obsession” with coronavirus vaccine delivery for children led to the unintended consequence of other routine inoculations being de-prioritised, a UK member of Parliament warned Sunday.

Police in Copenhagen, Denmark, say they do not currently believe a mass shooting at Field’s shopping mall was terror-related, and that the suspect had mental health issues.

Denmark has some of the most stringent gun controls in the world, yet numerous people were shot and some killed Sunday at the Field’s shopping mall in Copenhagen.

The verified Twitter account for the British Army was taken over by hackers who used it to promote NFTs and announce a fictitious attack on the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 

Danish police have confirmed several people have been shot amid an incident at a shopping mall in Copenhagen, with “several” killed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday hailed Israel’s High Court decision to cancel its quota on non-Jewish Ukrainian refugees, in opposition to the government’s position.

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) – Around one million people turned out for the Pride parade in the western German city of Cologne on Sunday, either to participate or to watch the colourful festivities.

An online social media post by an account with a transgender flag in its name appearing to threaten trans-critical author J.K Rowling has generated significant outcry online.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s defence minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region.

A potential cutting-off of Russian gas would lead to recession and “chaotic conditions”, various German officials are now warning.

The goal of Boris Johnson to reduce carbon emissions to “net zero” by 2050 will result in energy rationing, Lord David Frost has warned.

Slovyansk is a city of splintered loyalties. With a large retired population, it is not uncommon to hear older residents express sympathy towards Russia or nostalgia for their Soviet past. There is also distrust of the Ukrainian army and government.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.

A populist politician in Ireland has slammed the country’s state exams as containing “pure propaganda” after pupils were presented with documents promoting Black Lives Matter and concepts like “White Privilege” and “Micro-Aggressions”.

Sweden’s Justice Minister accused Donald Trump of threatening a trade war back in 2019 unless the country released rapper A$AP Rocky.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Police investigating suspected doping by the Tour de France team Bahrain Victorious seized more than 450 capsules of unidentified substances at a house in Slovenia during raids across Europe, the European agency Eurojust said Friday.

Four Swedish political parties have announced their support for a change to the country’s constitution that would guarantee women the right to have abortions. The Liberals, Centre Party, Greens, and the centre-right Moderates have all come out in support of

BERLIN (AP) – Fearing Russia might cut off natural gas supplies, the head of Germany’s regulatory agency for energy called on residents Saturday to save energy and to prepare for winter, when use increases.

A Swedish lawyer has been convicted by a court in Halmstad for tampering with evidence by planting a deactivated firearm to help get his client acquitted in a shooting case.

English singer Lily Allen revealed that she had an abortion, and claimed nobody needs to “justify” having one, adding that she and others abort their unborn children because they “just didn’t want to have a f**king baby. AND THAT IS REASON ENOUGH!”

NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.

Crossings of the English Channel by illegal migrants hit the highest monthly total for the year, with over 3,000 landing in June.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.

Scottish civil servants have been instructed that biological sex is a “falsehood” which was “set by the medical establishment to reinforce white supremacy and gender oppression”. 

Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges connected recent Russian missile strikes with G7 and NATO summits, saying Russia was purposely “humiliating the leaders of the West.” he said.

While the German government prevaricates around its self-imposed energy crisis, citizens are taking matters into their own hands to keep themselves warm this coming winter with sales of cheap, reliable wood burners soaring in Europe.

Climate extremists from the Just Stop Oil group have glued themselves to artworks by Vincent van Gogh and William Turner, to blackmail the government into halting fossil fuel projects. 

Inflation in countries using the euro set another eye-watering record, pushed higher by a huge increase in energy costs.

In an example of a tangible benefit of leaving the European Union, the United Kingdom is planning on cutting import tariffs on food products.