An alarming rise in stillbirths in the UK between the months of April and June have sparked a safety review by one of England’s top patient safety organisations. The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has identified that during that three month period, which saw the peak of coronavirus cases, 40 UK women experienced stillbirths, compared […]
The Grey Wolves, an ultranationalist Turkish group loyal to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could soon be banned by French authorities.
At 11.30pm Irish time, the polls will close in Indiana and Kentucky, and counting will begin in a US Presidential Election that has been ongoing now for 18 months. Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President on April 25th, 2019. Tonight, voters will render a judgement both on him, and on the incumbent President, Donald […]
Gunmen described as “Islamist terrorists” have killed at least four people and left another 17 injured in Vienna, in a night of terror where gunfire could be heard across the city centre. The attacks began in the Jewish quarter in central Vienna at 8pm Monday evening. Austrian police said they believed the attacks had a […]
The recent spate of head-chopping terrorism in France would appear, at first glance, to be relatively easy to explain: The culprits are a group (it’s popular, but of dubious accuracy, to say “a tiny minority”) of extremists in the French Muslim community who believe themselves to be waging a holy war against the French state […]
The terrorist group, Islamic State, has claimed responsibility for killing at least 18 people and burning down a church in the Baeti village in North Kivu province in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Reuters news agency reports. Kinos Katuho, the leader of a local civil rights group, told the outlet that […]
Living in Ireland is unusual when following US politics. Our national broadcaster and every national publication is sympathetic towards the Democratic Party and it’s rare if ever you hear a flattering opinion of the Republican Party and especially not of the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. I’m not going to come at […]
After a week of violent attacks on Polish churches, including vandalism of statues of the revered Polish Pope, John Paul II, Poles have come out in cities across the country to defend their places of worship. A ruling from Poland’s Constitutional Court which found that aborting unborn children with disabilities was discriminatory provoked fury from […]
Horrific news via the Catholic Herald and Aid to the Church in Need today. They report that “the Sindh High Court in Karachi, Pakistan, has validated the marriage of a 13-year-old Catholic girl to a Muslim man who abducted her.” Thirteen year old Arzoo Raja had been kidnapped from outside her home on October 13th. […]
On the morning of Thursday the 29th, the French city of Nice was rocked by an Islamist terrorist attack that left 3 innocent people dead, one of whom was beheaded. Here’s what we know so far. Who was the attacker? Police have yet to officially confirm the attacker’s identity, but French media have identified him […]
The New York Post, one of America’s oldest newspapers has said that Twitter is a “clear threat to healthy democracy” after the social media platform locked the paper’s account for publishing a major story into Hunter Biden. “Twitter is running a blackmail operation — cooperate or no traffic for you,” the paper wrote in a headline story accusing […]
Perhaps no country in the world has been the subject of more debate and scrutiny during the Coronavirus pandemic than Sweden. In the eyes of those who oppose the lockdown approach adopted by almost every other western country, Sweden is the example of a country that has successfully battled the virus without imposing draconian restrictions […]