Parents observed children having increased levels of anxiety and depression, a greater tendency for tantrums, and issues with negative self-esteem, problems that were not present before the lockdowns.

Singer Brian Molko called the Italian prime minister a fascist and racist “piece of s**t,” leading to the defamation suit.

The Greek government has blamed arsonists for the fires ravaging Rhodes, Corfu, and Evia, while also claiming that climate change has played a part.

Just days after claiming to have been tortured in jail and wanting to escape Ukraine to seek political asylum in Hungary, Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira has allegedly been rearrested by Ukrainian security forces.

“Beware of selfies with Barbie,” exhorted the Polish Ministry of Digitation as it warned against a new Barbie-themed app that monitors users contrary to GDPR law.

The appointment of an American transgender woman as a spokesperson of the Ukrainian Army highlights the government’s eagerness to comply with Western ‘values.’

Book sellers have no “intention of moving.” Their representative points to the absurdity of doing away with the bookshops during the Games: “We’re a major symbol of Paris, we’ve been here for 450 years.”

Anti-Christian violence is on the rise in Israel, particularly in the Old City of Jerusalem, with churches being vandalised and clergy members assaulted and spat upon.

The incident is the latest reminder of how importing people from another country inevitably brings with it—no matter what blank slate theorists may claim—an import of that country’s domestic issues.

The Norwegian foreign minister said the move was a “result of Russia’s war on Ukraine.”

BRICS total economic output—which comprised 31.59% of the world’s GDP in 2022—has now surpassed that of the G7 group.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said the attacks amounted to “war crimes,” and would “further affect Ukraine’s capacity to transfer their food products towards those in need in the world.”