Tue 29 August 2023: The Humans for Rights Network has identified an increasing number of cases in which child refugees who have arrived in the United Kingdom on small boats are being held in adult prisons alongside sex offenders. Several of these minors, particularly those from Sudan and South Sudan, appear to have been victims […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian mercenary Wagner’s chief, has been buried privately at a funeral near St Petersburg, according to his press service. A “farewell ceremony” for Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash last week, took place behind closed doors, his spokespeople said on Tuesday in a statement on […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: On Tuesday, the Kremlin declared that it is “not foreseen” that Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the funeral of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin. “The president’s presence is not foreseen. We don’t have information specifically about the funeral. The decision on this matter is made by relatives and friends, here we […]
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Tue 29 August 2023: Britain’s Home Office says asylum seekers arriving undocumented to the United Kingdom could be monitored with electronic and GPS tags, according to a report by The Times newspaper. Under the Illegal Migration Act, approved by the House of Commons in April, anyone who arrives in the country on small boats will be prevented […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have demanded that Belarus expel the Russian Wagner mercenary group from its territory, Polish media reported on Monday. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said at a joint press conference with the interior ministers of the Baltic states that they all demand […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: The soaring cost of car insurance is driving hard-up motorists, already struggling with rising road tax and fuel prices, to sell their vehicles. Car insurance is now the third-biggest household bill, behind council tax and energy, according to the comparison site Confused.com, The Independent reported. The Independent revealed earlier this month that average premiums […]
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Mon 28 August 2023: France plans to ban the abaya, a long loose-fitting overgarment worn by some Muslim women, on school grounds, the country’s education minister said on Sunday. Gabriel Attal told broadcaster TF1 that the government intends to convey “clear rules” on the matter to school officials across the country. Attal also said he […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Under “tough” plans announced by the prime minister late Saturday, the UK’s “most depraved” killers will face life behind bars with no chance of being released. “I have shared the public’s horror at the cruelty of crimes we have seen recently. People rightly expect that in the most serious cases, there […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: At least one person died and dozens more were injured in two successive explosions at a liquid gas fueling station near the Romanian capital Bucharest. Fifty-seven people were injured, some of them seriously, in the blasts on Saturday evening in the village of Crevedia, 20 kilometres north-west of Bucharest, the Romanian […]
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Sun 27 August 2023: Trump’s campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in the state and became the first former president in U.S. history to ever have a mug shot taken. Spokesman Steven […]
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