China has seen the wealth of its billionaires soar, despite the global economic collapse which was caused by the Covid-19 virus originating in the Wuhan province. With GDP growing 5% at a time when European nations are seeing double digit decline, China added 257 members to its billionaires club. In total China’s super-rich got €1.5 trillion […]
Four newborn babies in Adelaide have died after being denied life-saving heart surgery because it wasn’t available locally and the stage-four lockdown in Victoria meant they couldn’t be transferred to Melbourne for surgery. Covid-19 travel restrictions meant that interstate transfers for the sick babies who needed life-saving cardiac surgery wasn’t possible. The surgery was not […]
By now, readers will be familiar with the single strongest argument against Ireland’s impending level five lockdown: Cases are rising, yes, but hospitalisations, and deaths, remain low, notwithstanding the thirteen fatalities reported yesterday. Is the low number of deaths and hospitalisations, as some argue, a glitch? Or is it part of a wider pattern that’s […]
The 418-page document could become public within days as a result of the ruling, despite the best efforts of Maxwell’s lawyers who argued that its publication would prejudice her right to a fair trial.
China and Taiwan recently took their diplomatic relationship to the new level at a reception in Fiji. The Taiwanese government has accused two Chinese officials of attempting to photograph and intimidate guests, and assaulting a Taiwanese official, after the officials gate-crashed an event celebrating Taiwan’s National Day in Suva, the capital of Fiji. Beijing has […]
Several churches have been set on fire by groups of arsonists amid protests in the capital of Chile. https://twitter.com/Ruptly/status/1318182612884541440 Protestors had gathered in Santiago to mark the one year anniversary of anti-government protests which took place last year with widespread rioting and robbery at the time, and reportedly causing the death of up to 30 people. Yesterday […]
A history teacher has been beheaded in a shocking terror attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans Sainte-Honorine. Samuel Paty, 47, was attacked in broad daylight yesterday afternoon outside his school. His assailant, an 18-year old man of Chechen origin shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is Great” as he attacked Mr Paty while wielding a large knife. . French […]
The New York Post has released new emails indicating that Hunter Biden negotiated lucrative deals with China’s largest private energy firm, one of which he said was “interesting for me and my family”, and “for introductions alone”.
The New York Post is the third largest domestic newspaper in the United States by circulation. It’s a tabloid, founded in 1801, and could best be described as sort of an American equivalent to The Sun. A tabloid, but a real newspaper – not comedy publication like, say, the National Enquirer. Yesterday it ran a […]
A 25 year-old Nevada man has reportedly contracted covid-19 for the second time, with the latest infection allegedly being more severe than the first. According to the report in the Lancet, the man had “no known immune disorders”. However, on the 25th of March, around the peak of the pandemic, he first noticed a wave […]
Microsoft founder Bill Gates says the world won’t return to normal until “a lot of people” take a second “super-effective” coronavirus vaccine.
Euthanasia is currently legal for Dutch children over 12 who are given parental consent, and for babies up to a year old whose parents choose for them to be euthanised due to severe pain. 16 and 17-year olds do not need to attain parental consent, but must simply inform them of their decision.