Liverpool born poet and writer Michael Walsh traces his Liverpool roots back to 1865. This was the year his Irish great-grandmother arrived in the Second City of Empire. His parents were born at the turn of what was to become the most tumultuous century in history. Michael's father, Patrick, fought in three major conflicts before reaching his fortieth birthday. His mother, Kathleen, was a former nun turned gun-running renegade.
On leaving school at 15 years of age, Michael spent 12 weeks at the Merchant Navy School for Sailors in Sharpness, Gloucestershire. During his years at sea, he was to visit and work in over 60 countries.
The journalist and broadcaster since provided articles and columns for numerous magazines and international news media. In 2011 he was awarded Writer of the Year by the publishers of Euro Weekly News, Europe's highest-circulation newspaper of its kind. He has authored, edited and ghosted over 70 book titles.
Brown University’s Costs of War Project estimates that the US has spent some $2.26 trillion on the war in Afghanistan over the past two decades. More than 100,000 Afghan civilians, tens of thousands of Afghan security forces personnel and Taliban fighters, about 3,500 US and NATO troops and 4,000+ Western mercenaries were killed in that time, with hundreds of thousands more injured, and millions becoming refugees.
Mounted police officers are commonly used at rallies around the globe, but mounted protesters seem to be an Australian innovation as a man was filmed encouraging people to break Covid-19 rules from the back of a white horse.
The story of Father Ignacio María Doñoro de los Río is worthy of the greatest James Bond. The 57-year-old former military chaplain has been nominated to receive the Princess of Asturias Prize in the Concord category. This is to reward his work for 25 years with young victims of extreme poverty and against human trafficking.
Siegfried Müller was a highly decorated soldier with Germany’s Wehrmacht during World War II who made a name for himself as a mercenary in Africa during the 1960s.
There are marked differences in your immune system after natural infection with coronavirus and after vaccination. Which is better? Even asking the question bordered on heresy a year ago, when catching Covid for the first time like flu could be deadly, especially for the elderly or people already in poor health.
Is it anti-vax to be concerned?’: Magazine editor reports changes to periods after Covid jab, the latest in over 30,000 UK women.
Over 230,000 foreigners in Germany are ordered to be deported but are allowed to remain under ‘tolerated resident’ status. In the first half of 2021, security authorities in Saxony initiated investigations into around 2,500 criminal offences committed by foreigners, including a number of serious ones, even though these aliens had already been ordered to leave Germany but have been allowed to remain under ‘tolerated’ status.
Maria Andrejczyk decided to give up her medal to pay for the surgery of a baby boy who is suffering from a serious heart ailment.
A COUNCIL has been praised for refusing to take any Afghan refugees, because it wants to prioritise its own crisis situation for its own people. Torbay Council says the area already faces a housing crisis and so it cannot make room for Afghans in need of sanctuary. However, the government has called on local authorities to ask them to provide accommodation for up 20,000 refugees.
UKRAINE is the largest country in Europe with its unique Slavic culture pivotal to the Aryan branch of the Teutonic and Celtic family of ethnicities. Ironically, the only period during the 20th Century when Ukraine blossomed to its potential was during the Brezhnev era and onwards.
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