Cardinal Wilfrid Napier, South African prelate and Archbishop of Durban, has taken to Twitter to condemn the Black Lives Matter movement. “It’s time to state honestly what BLM really stands for – destroying the traditional family, AND what it actually does – destroying property, including religious buildings and objects!”, the cardinal wrote on Saturday. It’s […]
A multi-agency operation to find endangered and trafficked juveniles in Georgia has led to 39 missing children being rescued, and 9 ‘criminal associates’ arrested and facing charges of sex trafficking, parental kidnapping, custodial interference and registered sex offender violence. The children were aged between 3 and 17. Photos and videos of the rescue showed them […]
Hungary is to close its borders to all foreigners starting on Monday the 1st of September, the Minister heading the Hungarian cabinet has announced. Gergely Gulyás has said that exceptions will be made for humanitarian missions, foreign diplomats, important business and military operations. Additionally, Hungarian citizens returning from overseas will be required to quarantine for […]
The last number of years have seen growing rifts between transgender and feminist activists over the issues of female only spaces, women’s rights, and the idea of “gender-affirmative care”, which effectively argues that clinicians and society in general should agree with any statement a child makes about their gender identity, an approach which critics argue […]
Last week, Joe Biden spoke for 24 minutes and declared that the “President’s character is on the ballot”. Last night, President Trump got his go at making a pitch to America, and declared that the Democratic agenda would all but end America as we know it. Trump took a bit longer than 24 minutes, too: […]
An English rugby star has called on the Government to incentivise marriage, as a new report shows cohabiting couples are four times more likely to separate, and that family instability is a leading cause for negative outcomes for children. Writing in The Telegraph England player Courtney Lawes said that in his view marriage provided stability to families, […]
No more Heidi or cuckoo clocks? As headlines go ‘There should be integration courses for the Swiss’ was one surely written to catch attention, but sociologist Ganga Jey Aratnam argues that this will become the reality as Swiss people are set to become a minority in their own country. In an interview with Tages-Anzeiger, Aratnam said that Swiss […]
Tech giant Facebook has agreed to pay the French government €106 million taxes to settle a dispute over taxes raised on revenues earned in the country. The charge would cover the period of Facebook’s operations in France from 2009 to 2019. The social network trailblazers also agreed to pay €8.46m in taxes on revenues earned […]
Controversial WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Gheybresus, has said that any recovery process to deal with the fallout from covid-19 must include measures for dealing with climate change. During a press conference last week, Gheybresus told reporters that though countries were recovering from the impact of coronavirus, life would never be returning to pre-pandemic conditions. “The […]
A pub near to the Champs-Elysees was reportedly raided by Paris riot police over coronavirus concerns. Football fans at a bar in Paris were met with riot shields and batons after failing to social distance while watching the Champions League final. Watch more videos from Sky News here: https://t.co/mQhSgQx3wz pic.twitter.com/DwfBh6QCGi — Sky News (@SkyNews) August […]
At a press conference on Sunday evening President Donald Trump announced that the Food and Drink Administration (FDA) has given its approval for the use of high antibody plasma from recovered Covid19 patients to treat those currently diagnosed. That followed a Presidential tweet on Saturday in which Trump accused the “deep state or whoever at […]
Vice President Joe Biden accepted the Democratic nomination for President of the United States last night, and has now been formally ratified as President Trump’s opponent for the election, scheduled for November 3rd. Here are his full remarks: Biden promised that his first action if he is elected president will be to “get control of […]