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Haitian gang demand $17 million for release of kidnapped US and Canadian Christian missionaries

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An armed gang that kidnapped 17 members of a US missionary group in Haiti last week are demanding $1 million each for their release, the Haitian justice minister told US media, adding that five children were among those abducted. … Read More >Haitian gang demand $17 million for release of kidnapped US and Canadian Christian missionaries

Categories EU

Poland will bow to EU’s demands and dissolve Supreme Court disciplinary chamber, country’s prime minister announces

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Poland’s prime minister has announced that his government will dissolve the disciplinary chamber of the country’s Supreme Court after the EU condemned the chamber for threatening the “unity of the European legal order.” … Read More >Poland will bow to EU’s demands and dissolve Supreme Court disciplinary chamber, country’s prime minister announces

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Poland will be punished for challenging EU law primacy, European leader warns, as Warsaw claims Brussels is devoid of democracy

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The European Commission president has warned that Poland will face penalties for its move to make EU law subordinate to national law, after a Warsaw court backed the government’s defiance of Brussels’ supremacy. … Read More >Poland will be punished for challenging EU law primacy, European leader warns, as Warsaw claims Brussels is devoid of democracy

Categories World

Facebook attacks media over not-yet-published reports and accuses it of orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign

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Spooked by impending reports of revelations from leaked papers, the embattled company has accused journalists of orchestrating a ‘gotcha’ campaign against it, and claims they are misrepresenting its actions. … Read More >Facebook attacks media over not-yet-published reports and accuses it of orchestrated ‘gotcha’ campaign

Categories Asia & Pacific

China registers most daily Covid cases since September, prompting soft lockdowns to contain virus spread

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A fresh outbreak of Covid has been recorded in China. One new infected person has been found in Beijing, while the most recent cases, in an Inner Mongolia city, led authorities to impose a lockdown on its 76,000 residents. … Read More >China registers most daily Covid cases since September, prompting soft lockdowns to contain virus spread

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New Zealand reports highest daily number of Covid-19 cases despite ramping up vaccination effort

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New Zealand has recorded its highest-ever daily Covid-19 infection count with just shy of 100 new local cases, despite over 80% of citizens having had at least one vaccine dose. Officials have blamed the spike on rule-breakers. … Read More >New Zealand reports highest daily number of Covid-19 cases despite ramping up vaccination effort

Categories UK

‘Gender baptism is not biblical’: Christian couple seeking to sue UK govt over school guidelines blasts ‘trans indoctrination’

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The UK’s school guidelines are designed to lure children into transgenderism, a Christian couple seeking to sue the government told RT. Pro-trans activists, however, believe they’re using the legal system to push their own agenda. … Read More >‘Gender baptism is not biblical’: Christian couple seeking to sue UK govt over school guidelines blasts ‘trans indoctrination’

Categories UK

Britons puzzled how dropping word ‘mother’ from policy doc made Scotland a darling of top LGBT+ group whose own site uses the word

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The pro-LGBT+ advocacy group Stonewall reportedly bumped the Government of Scotland up its controversial Diversity Champions list after it dropped the word ‘mother’ from its maternity-leave policy, and some people are puzzled. … Read More >Britons puzzled how dropping word ‘mother’ from policy doc made Scotland a darling of top LGBT+ group whose own site uses the word

Categories UK

Nine UK schools tell schoolkids to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as opponents warn it normalizes surveillance state

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Nine Scottish elementary schools have embraced a pilot plan to deploy facial recognition technology to verify children’s school lunch payments, insisting the system is faster and more hygienic, while dodging the privacy issue. … Read More >Nine UK schools tell schoolkids to pay for lunch via FACIAL RECOGNITION as opponents warn it normalizes surveillance state

Categories Asia & Pacific

Bangladesh police arrest 450 people linked to attacks on Hindu homes and religious sites in worst unrest for over a decade

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Bangladeshi police have arrested 450 people following attacks against Hindus in the Muslim-majority country in some of the worst unrest in over a decade, which has seen Hindu religious sites vandalized and homes destroyed. … Read More >Bangladesh police arrest 450 people linked to attacks on Hindu homes and religious sites in worst unrest for over a decade