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Europe
For the third summer in a row German left-wing punks set up protest camp against the economic elite on the German island of Sylt where the viral clip of young adults singing that Germany belongs to Germans was recorded, the group Aktion Sylt says it aims to make safe retreats for fascist subsidy collectors, tax-evading Nazi heirs and backward world destroyers things of the past
67-year-old teacher seriously stabbed in the face and neck in Wedel near Hamburg, Germany on Friday and the suspects, four brothers from Syria, were arrested but released from custody since the suspicion is currently not sufficient to issue an arrest warrant against them according to the police
Marine Le Pen's party National Rally, with its 32 percent, gets the most votes in Sunday's parliamentary elections but the third most seats in the parliament after President Emmanuel Macron's coalition and the left-wing coalition New People's Front agreed to drop out in each district in favor of the candidate of the two parties who had the best chance of winning
Three Muslim independent candidates become members of the British Parliament representing three different constituencies usually represented by Labour, according to the think tank More in Common, Labour lost heavily in areas with large Muslim populations and candidate Shockat Adam says after the election win that "this is for the people of Gaza" and that he was very cognisant of making this more than a one-issue campaign
The German bank Volksbank closes the bank account of Alternative for Germany's for their donations as a result of the appeal of the group Omas gegen Rechts which submitted over 33,500 signatures to the bank, no confirmation of the suspension from the bank but the possibility to donate has been limited
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow days after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi who dismissed the Hungarian's ceasefire proposal, saying the number of countries that can talk to both sides is shrinking and Hungary is slowly becoming the only country in Europe that can talk to everyone
Labor wins Sunday's election in the UK with 34 percent of the vote and 64 percent of the seats in parliament while Nigel Farage's Reform UK party gets 14 percent of the vote but less than 1 percent of the seats
54 percent of Icelanders are in favor of EU membership and 74 percent consider it important to hold a referendum on the issue, according to a poll by the company Maskína, the article suggests that introducing the euro could mean that homeowners get cheaper loans
Apple removes 25 VPN apps from the App Store in Russia at the request of the Russian government, in July 2023, President Vladimir Putin signed a bill giving Roskomnadzor, the agency for the supervision and monitoring of communications, the authority to block services that provide access to banned websites
26,000 foreigners have entered Poland via Belarus in 2023, which was 10,000 more than in the year before and now videos of Polish farmers spreading pig manure along the border are being spread online, one of the farmers says they are showing those in power how to secure their territory
33-year-old Sebastian Lämsä, former member of the Nordic Resistance Movement which is now banned in Finland, attacks two 12-year-old immigrants with a knife and seriously injures one after several stabs from behind in a shopping center in Oulu, Finland, on Thursday
Swedish government turns down application to build new subsea power connection Hansa PowerBridge between Sweden and Germany, Swedish Energy Minister Ebba Busch says southern Sweden with its large deficit in electricity production can not be connected with Germany where the electricity market today does not function efficiently without risking higher prices and a more unstable electricity market in Sweden
Exiled Russians critical of the Kremlin are calling on the EU to take in fleeing Russians in order to drain the country of qualified labor and Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov says one less engineer is one less missile flying in the direction of Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron dissolves parliament and calls a snap election after Marine Le Pen's right-wing party National Rally gets more than twice the votes of his liberal Renaissance party in the EU election, Le Pen comments that she welcomes the decision and that the result should send a message to Brussels and put an end to this painful epoch of globalism
Nigel Farage's Reform UK party gets 17 percent of the vote and Tories 19 in a voting poll after the party leader announces he intends to run, among other things, rallying for zero income tax up to incomes of 20,000 pounds and to abolish VAT on energy bills
Kosovo's expropriation of 100 parcels of land in Serbian-populated areas receives criticism in press release signed by the embassies of France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the United States, as well as the EU and the OSCE, calling on Kosovo to follow the rule of law and good governance
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen cancels official events after being pushed in central Copenhagen during Friday evening, says she suffers from a minor whiplash injury, 39-year-old man arrested by police
The provincial court in Ciudad Real in Spain acquits a 20-year-old accused of impregnating a 12-year-old with twins on the grounds that the behavior is common in Romani cultures and that it was consensual, and the court in Castile and León reduced the sentence for the man who had sex with a minor when the victim said it is normal in her culture to have sex with adults
Brexit profile Nigel Farage stands in the upcoming British parliamentary elections as he again becomes leader of the Reform UK party he founded, calls for political revolt against the status quo
The 25-year-old Afghan Muslim Silauman Ataee who stabbed a police to death in Mannheim, Germany in connection with his attack on the politician Michael Stürzenberger on Friday, had been living illegally in the country since he was denied asylum in 2014
Halla Tómasdóttir wins the presidential election in Iceland on Sunday with 34.3 percent of the vote and becomes the country's seventh president since the founding of the republic in 1944
25-year-old Syrian Ayman Al-K breaks into the home of 78-year-old woman in Germany and sexually assaults her, is arrested but released almost immediately, and rapes 23-year-old woman at his asylum accommodation the next day
Proposal from the Russian Defense Ministry to change the borders in the Baltic Sea is published on Tuesday and then taken down on Wednesday, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says it is an obvious escalation against Nato and the EU and must be met with an appropriately firm response
Britain will hold general election on July 4 this year as the rain-soaked Indian Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces the date during a press conference outside 10 Downing Street that was at times drowned out by the Labor party's anthem "Things Can Only Get Better" from nearby loudspeakers
The Georgian parliament plans to override President Salome Zourabichvili's veto of the new law that will make the funding of organizations visible, according to the country's speaker Shalva Papuashvili, the law has been opposed by the US, the EU, the UN, NATO, the OSCE and the Council of Europe, while the ruling party claims that it only aims to ensure the transparency of foreign funding for the non-governmental sector and the media
Bangladeshi Muslim Mohammed Asaduzzaman becomes mayor of Brighton with a population 275,000, joining other UK cities with Muslim mayors such as London, Birmingham, Leeds, Blackburn, Sheffield, Oxford, Luton, Oldham and Rochdale
The German newspaper Der Spiegel writes that German right-wing extremists are taking to the streets and carrying out more and more violence against politicians, that, among other things, they made the social democratic mayor of the city of Estorf to resign and that one of the suspected 17-year-olds in the assault of the social democrat Matthias Ecke, Quentin J. participated in a demonstration in Dresden under the flag of the German Empire and the message "Stop Scholz, Habeck, Lindner & Co: Stop the Robbery, Lower the Taxes!"
German intelligence is allowed to spy on and monitor Alternative for Germany after a court ruled that the intelligence service's classification of the party as a suspected extremist organization is correct, on the grounds that there is sufficient evidence that Alternativ for Germany pursues goals that run against the human dignity of certain groups and against democracy
The Christian Democrats in Germany vote during their party congress to put mandatory military service back on its agenda and German EU parliamentarian Manfred Weber (CSU) floates the idea for the introduction of EU-wide draft
Six members of Belgium's right-wing nationalist party Nation are sentenced, including one to prison, for inciting hatred following posts in 2020 and 2021 on Facebook critical of the country's immigration policy with comments such as "stop living together, we want to live without them" and "our people first"
27-year-old Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, leader of Alternative for Germany in the city of Rotenburg, is fined for inciting hatred after she on social media in August 2021 linked to an article showing that Afghans in Germany are overrepresented when it comes to gang rape with the comment "A welcoming culture of gang rape?" aimed at Hamburg's mayor who intended to hire 200 Afghans
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says that wherever he go he is asked if there shouldn't be a stop to price increases for kebabs, the government posts on social media why the price has risen and the left-wing party Die Linke proposes legislation on Dönerpreisbremse
During 2022 in Germany 327,000 more people died than were born while the total population increased by 1.1 million people and the latest figures suggest that the number of births is the lowest since 2013
Sadiq Khan (Labour) to become mayor of London for a third term after winning election on Sunday, says we will wait and see in response to whether he plans a career in national politics
German Social Democrat Matthias Ecke was beaten by a group of four while putting up posters in Dresden, Germany on Friday and suffered injuries that required surgery, earlier in the day campaign worker for the Greens were attacked by what appeared to be the same group and several politicians is now blaming Alternative for Germany
Three female and four male police officers overpower a 36-year-old man in London 22 minutes after he on Tuesday morning used a sword to kill a 14-year-old boy and injure four others, including two police officers, an attack that the police do not believe is terror-related
Vojin Pavlovic, head of the NGO Eastern Alternative, is charged in Bosnia with inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred for denying and seeking to justify the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica by Bosnian Serbs by putting up posters in connection with the anniversary of the events in Srebrenica
Scotland's First Minister, the Muslim Humza Yousaf of the Scottish Nationalist SNP, resigns as First Minister and as party leader ahead of two planned no-confidence votes which he was expected to lose
22 percent of German residents between the ages of 14 and 29 would vote for Alternative for Germany if there were elections today, the highest for any single party, according to the study 2024 Jugend in Deutschland, support for the Greens falls from 27 percent in 2022 to 18 percent in 2024 and for the SPD from 19 to 8 percent
Russia's Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov, one of his close collaborators and a construction boss, is arrested this week on suspicion of bribery, Ivanov maintains his innocence but no comment from the other two yet
The hate speech charges against Finnish MP and former minister Päivi Räsänen following her 2019 tweet and 2004 pamphlet on same-sex marriage will be heard in the Supreme Court of Finland after being acquitted in two instances, she says the investigation has been going on for almost five years and has consisted of more than 13 hours of interrogation
Residents of the district Bulwell in Nottingham in England with a 2.7 percent Muslim population oppose the planned construction of a mosque and a woman at a meeting says she thinks they are now considered the local racists but that it feels like they are being driven out and that the area will be completely overtaken
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico's close ally, 48-year-old Peter Pellegrini, wins the Slovak presidential election with almost 54 percent of the vote against liberal, pro-Western candidate Ivan Korčok who received just over 46 percent
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says Russian spies have been working at the defense alliance's headquarters in Brussels and have now been expelled, Ukrainian security adviser Oleksiy Danilov says Russian spy networks are very active in Germany and five people are awaiting trial in Britain accused of spying for Russia
Pagans in British army more than double in four years, considered fifth largest religion among soldiers and beard ban lifted in bid to attract more recruits
Britain's ruling party Tories, at the suggestion of former owner of Swedish newspaper Metro and Norwegian businessman Christen Ager-Hanssen, planned to create the app True Blue to sell party member data to advertisers, according to leaked documents to The Guardian, Hanssen met Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in June 2023 and donated GBP 70,000 through the blockchain company nChain, of which he was CEO for just under a year