Thousands of economic migrants from North Africa and elsewhere are heading to Italy and Southern European countries do not have enough capacity to handle the crisis, leading them to plea for help from the European Union.
A WWII veteran has told the story of how he was a goalkeeper in the Sunday football league at Auschwitz. Ron Jones, 94, played in football matches organised by the camp administrators at the labour complex. The pensioner played in goal for the Welsh team in the games against other British prisoners of war.
Fontilles is a small walled town, hidden in the mountains, in the natural area of the Vall de Laguar, in the province of Alicante. The ‘garden of Eden’ is home to a private foundation that opened in 1909. In the 1950s was inhabited by 450 leprosy patients, whereas today, just twelve patients remain there, with the condition eradicated in Spain, only around ten or twelve new cases are diagnosed each year, and can be cured.
A leading Christian Democrat politician in Finland is facing up to two years in prison after being charged with hate speech over LGBT-critical comments made on social media, including quoting a verse from the Bible.
The Visegrád Four (V4) countries of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have established a ‘family-friendly coalition’ at a video conference held on Thursday, Hungarian minister without portfolio for family affairs, Katalin Novák said on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Twatter (sic) issued a 12-hour suspension against the account of a professor of philosophy and law and a deputy of the anti-migrant patriotic Spanish Vox party, Francisco Jose Contreras, on grounds of ‘incitement to hatred.’ Contreras had affirmed a simple biological fact that ‘a man cannot get pregnant. A man does not have a uterus or ovaries.’
An Italian judge in Catania has ruled that the leader of Italy’s popular anti-migrant League party, Matteo Salvini, shouldn’t stand trial over claims he kidnapped a group of migrants in July 2019 when he refused to let them disembark.
McDonald’s loses legal battle with chef Jamie Oliver, who proved that the food they sell is not suitable for eating because it’s highly toxic. Television Chef Jamie Oliver won a battle against the largest junk food chain in the world. Once Oliver demonstrated how burgers are made, McDonald’s, the franchise announced it will change the recipe.
More than 120 retired US military leaders have signed an open letter criticising the Biden administration’s policies and questioning the outcome of the 2020 election ~ and the president’s mental health. The retired brass’ concerns reflect growing distrust in basic social institutions and federal authorities among Americans, observers say.
More than a quarter of EU adults and rising fast are reluctant to get Covid vaccine, survey finds. Vaccine hesitancy rates in the EU are raising alarms, after a survey found that nearly one-third of adults across the bloc said they’d be unlikely to accept a Covid-19 jab, amid a failure to persuade people of its effectiveness and safety.
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