The BBC was forced to apologize and pay damages to the president of Ukraine. The Beeb was forced into this humiliating action because of a report it published in 2017 that the Ukrainian president had paid $400,000 to extend a meeting with President Donald Trump. The BBC now acknowledges that the story was untrue.
In other news, members of an anti-Islam party in Denmark burned a Koran during a confrontation with Hizb ut-Tahrir in front of the Danish parliament.
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‘Collusion Delusion is Over’: Triumphant Trump Takes Victory Lap in Michigan
President Donald Trump trumpeted special counsel Robert Mueller’s finding of “no collusion” between his 2016 campaign and the Russian government, at a 2020 campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Thursday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.
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Marxist Professor Really Loves Fantasizing About Killing Cops
UC Davis Professor Joshua Clover is the subject of a massive petition to have his tenure revoked after his explicit public tweets about cop killing.
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Pelosi’s New Climate Bill Binds America to Paris Deal While China Takes a Pass
China is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues are pushing a new climate bill that could effectively reshape the entire Paris accord and legally bind the Trump administration to the deal.
Pelosi’s Climate Action Now Act, announced Wednesday to media fanfare, aims to prevent President Donald Trump from removing the U.S. from the 2016 accord. The deal, which compels the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent by 2025, is a non-binding agreement made after former President Barack Obama was unable to get the required votes in Congress to make it a treaty.
If the California Democrat wants to legally force Trump to abide by the deal, then she needs to go through the complicated legal process to make the deal a treaty rather than a non-binding deal, Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation Thursday.
Pelosi’s bill is a watered-down version of New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, which called for a near complete shift away from fossil fuels and toward green energy…
The globalists have chosen China as the country that will lead the way into humanity’s future. Alex Jones breaks down how a one-sided deal made 50 years ago puts China in the driver’s seat. [url]
[Comment: Each day the Democrats show that they are globalist communists and enemies of the Republic of the United States. ]
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Supreme Court Refuses to Block Bump-Stock Ban
Lawyers slam single biggest A.T.F. seizure of private property in history
The Supreme Court has declined to stop the Trump administration from enforcing its ban on “bump-stock” devices, which allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine guns.
Ahead of the ban, which took effect on Tuesday, gun right groups had asked the court to stop the government from enforcing the ban.
“This case represents the single biggest A.T.F. seizure of private property in history,” their lawyers wrote, “made even more noxious because all existing bump stocks were manufactured and purchased in accordance with A.T.F. rulings approving their sale.”
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VCU Student Accuses Former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder of Sexual Harassment
A student who worked with L. Douglas Wilder at the Virginia Commonwealth University school named for the former governor reported to the university and police that Wilder sexually harassed her by kissing her without consent.
The woman, Sydney Black, 22, said Wilder, 88, also suggested she could live at his house and offered to take her on foreign trips and pay for her law school in 2017, while she still worked as an office assistant at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
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Trudeau Now Has a Lower Approval Rating Than Trump, With Tories Way Ahead: Ipsos Poll
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to have suffered more damage from the SNC-Lavalin scandal than U.S. President Donald Trump has from the Russia investigation, hush money payments to a porn star, alleged campaign finance violations, threats of impeachment proceedings and the litany of new investigations launched by Democrats.
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Danish Anti-Islam Group Burn Quran in Front of Islamist Protesters
Danish anti-Islam party Stram Kurs (Tight Course) faced off against Islamists from the Hizb ut-Tahrir group in front of the Danish parliament, and burned a Quran.
The event began as a Friday prayer by the controversial Islamist group which regularly campaigns for a global caliphate, during a memorial to the victims of the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand, Jyllands Posten reports.
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EU Big Brother Comes for Autobahn and Transportation Freedom
Globalists continue cracking down on freedom
The European Union intends on requiring speed-limiting technology be placed in all cars manufactured from 2022 on.
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Europhile Verhofstadt Smashes Border Fence With Own Head in Bizarre New EU Election Ad
European Parliament’s Liberals have promised to tear down walls, in an EU election campaign video depicting the group’s leader smashing through a border fence with his head.
“Europe’s future” rests on this May’s EU Parliament elections, and the choice voters will be given of either between “destroying” the bloc or “reforming” it, according to a new Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) campaign video.
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Europarl Calls for ‘Reparations’ To Fight ‘Structural Racism’ Against Africans in EU
The European Parliament has demanded bloc-wide action including “reparations” to fight “structural racism” which manifests in people of African descent in Europe getting lower school grades and increased police scrutiny, according to Brussels.
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France: Macron Hopes Older Protester Gains “Wisdom” After Injuries
French President Emmanuel Macron has told a newspaper he hopes a 73-year old yellow vest protester who suffered serious head injuries after being charged by police in Nice, gains “wisdom” over the incident.
Anti-globalization activist Genevieve Legay remains in hospital Monday after police advanced aggressively on people defying a protest ban Saturday.
An Associated Press reporter saw Legay, who was waving a rainbow flag marked “Peace,” fall to the pavement, blood spilling from her head.
In an interview published in Nice Matin Monday, Macron suggested Legay didn’t behave “responsibly,” saying that “fragile” people shouldn’t attend “places that are defined as prohibited.”
He added: “I wish her a speedy recovery, and perhaps a form of wisdom.”
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France: Gilets Jaunes Again Banned From Champs-Elysées
Protesters forbidden from demonstrating on Paris street for the second Saturday in a row
Gilets jaunes protestors have been banned from protesting on the Champs-Elysées for the second weekend in a row, Interior Minister Christophe Castener has said.
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Italian Wine Production Up 29% in 2018 — Report
Value of exports up 3.3% last year — agro-food institute ISMEA
(ANSA) — Rome, March 28 — Italy produced 55 million hectolitres of wine in 2018, an increase of 29% with respect to the previous year, the ISMEA agro-food institute said on Thursday.
In a report ISMEA said that 20 million hectolitres of that wine was sold abroad.
It said the nation’s wine exports were worth 6.2 billion euros, keeping Italy second only to France in the ranking of world producers.
ISMEA said the value of Italian wine exports was up 3.3% in 2018 and has increased by 70% over the last decade.
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Italy: Man Nabbed for Taking Hostage 15 People in Curia
“Italian police on Wednesday afternoon arrested a 25-year-old Ghanaian man after he took hostage 15 people in the bishops’ curia at Frosinone south of Rome.
The man held his hostages for several hours demanding payment for them.
He resisted arrest and slightly injured two policemen, sources said Thursday.
The man is accused of kidnapping for ransom, resisting arrest, violence and injuring public officers.”
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Italy: Senate Gives Final Approval to Legitimate-Defence Law
Legislation expands right to self-defence from intruders
(ANSA) — Rome, March 28 — The Senate on Thursday gave final approval to the government’s law expanding the right to legitimate self defence. It was approved by the Upper House on its third reading with 201 votes in favour, 38 against and six abstentions.
The lawmakers from the parties supporting Premier Giuseppe Conte’s government, the League and the 5-Star Movement (M5S), applauded as the legislation got the definitive green light. The bill expanding the right to self-defence from intruders, fashioned by Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini, introduces norms similar to US ‘stand your ground’ laws.
“This is a great day for Italians,” said Salvini, who recently courted controversy by visiting in jail a businessman who made a would-be thief kneel and shot and injured him in the chest.
“After years of chatter and polemics we have enshrined the sacrosanct right of legitimate self defence for those who are attacked in their homes, in their bars, and in their restaurants,” he said.
“The Wild West is not being legitimised, but we are on the side of decent and respectable citizens”.
Salvini has long campaigned for a law allowing self-defence in all cases and has repeatedly sided with business people and other citizens who have been prosecuted for excessive self defence under the previous law.
But the new law may face legal hurdles, according to magistrates union ANM.
“There are numerous doubts that the law may be unconstitutional in many aspects,” ANM President Francesco Minisci told reporters.
He also said the change in legislation was not needed, in his view.
“The new law…will not safeguard citizens any more than they were safeguarded up till today; on the contrary is introduces concepts that have little to do with law, it foresees dangerous automatism and restricts the range of evaluation by magistrates, as well as bringing with it great difficulties in interpretation,” he said.
Among the new factors to be weighed in self-defence cases there is the concept of “serious emotional disturbance” in the face of intruders, which would legitimise even deadly self defence. Italy’s association of penal lawyers also came out against the new law, calling it “useless and dangerous”. They said it “intervenes on a virtual, non-existent emergency, seeing that the cases of (excessive) legitimate self defence at home are two a year, and they end up in acquittals”.
It is dangerous, the criminal lawyers said, because “it spreads the conviction in people that they can act in conditions of impunity at home. And that’s not so”. Mario Cattaneo, a northern Italian restaurant owner who shot dead a thief and has been indicted for excessive self-defence, said “I’m thrilled, and I hope this law can put an end to my agony”.
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Italy: Salvini Calls for Castration “For the Molesting Worms Who Raped a Tourist in Catania”
Matteo Salvini, Italy’s hardline interior minister, has called for three young men who allegedly gang-raped an American teenager in Sicily to be chemically castrated if convicted.
“No leniency for the molesting worms who raped a tourist in Catania”, Salvini tweeted. “Guaranteed jail time and chemical castration!”
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‘Not Afraid of Brexit’: Calais Ready for No Deal, ‘No Delays’ Says Port Chief
The deputy mayor of Calais has said that he is ready for a clean, no deal Brexit, saying, “If everyone does their jobs properly, there won’t be any problems.”
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Police Arrest Two Suspected Foreign Terrorists at Prague Airport
Police arrested two foreigners suspected of having carried out acts of terrorism in Austria at the Prague airport on Wednesday, Czech Police Presidium spokeswoman Eva Kropacova told CTK. “We can confirm that officers of the foreigner police detained two foreigners at the Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague based on an arrest warrant issued by the Viennese Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism on Wednesday shortly after their arrival,” Kropacova said. The two alleged terrorists are in a police cell and a Czech court will decide on their extradition to Austria. Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said the two foreigners formed a terrorist cell together with an Iraqi man, whom the Austrian police detained in Vienna on Monday over two terrorist attacks on high-speed trains. The Iraqi national is suspected of attempting to derail trains in Germany last year.
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Pope Not Letting People Kiss Ring ‘For Hygiene Reasons’
Gisotti explains Loreto incident that went viral
(ANSA) — Vatican City, March 28 — Pope Francis is not letting people kiss his ring when there are many people wanting to do so and therefore a risk of spreading germs, Vatican Spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said Thursday in explaining an episode on a recent visit to Loreto that went viral on the Web.
Roman Catholics pay respect to the pope by kneeling before him and kissing his ring — a so-called fisherman’s ring that recalls St Peter’s, the founder of the Church and the first pope.
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UK MPs Launch Plans for ‘Radical’, AOC-Inspired ‘Green New Deal’
Left-wing lawmakers in Britain have launched a ‘Green New Deal’ bill which they claim would “decarbonise the economy” and “eradicate inequality” by dramatically slashing UK greenhouse gas emissions at an accelerated pace.
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UK: Gun-Free London? Teen Shot Dead, Raid Uncovers Multiple AK-47s, Grenades
A teenage boy has been shot dead in London, just minutes after a man in his thirties was stabbed in the head elsewhere in the increasingly crime-stricken British capital.
The victim, reportedly in his late teens, was attended to by the London Ambulance Service and Metropolitan Police officers at Friar Mews, West Norwood, around 4:10 p.m., but he was pronounced dead after a little over 40 minutes.
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UK: Leaked Labour Anti-Semitism Dossier Leads to Three Arrests
British police have made three arrests after a leaked dossier on anti-Semitism within the Labour Party was leaked to a radio station, who passed the files on to law enforcement.
The file of an internal Labour Party investigation into anti-Semitism by its own members was leaked to London-based talk radio station LBC last year, and contained alleged social media posts by Labour activists.
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The European Union has reportedly offered April Fools’ Day 2020 as a new Brexit date should Theresa May’s deal fail to succeed on a mooted third attempt to get it through Parliament, assuming Remain MPs move to stop a No Deal on exit on April 12th.
Brexit was originally scheduled to take place on Friday, March 29th, with or without a deal, but the Prime Minister has now delayed it in concert with the European Council — despite promising she would not do so 108 times, and her own MPs and party National Convention voting against it — so it will either take place on May 22nd if her deal is approved by Parliament, or April 12th on No Deal terms if it is not.
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Pope Francis: Christians and Muslims ‘Believe in God the Creator and Merciful One’
Pope Francis told the people of Morocco he will visit them “as a pilgrim of peace and of fraternity” when he travels to the north African nation on Saturday.
The pope began his video-message to the Moroccans by wishing them peace in Arabic: “As-Salamu Alaikum!”, before going on to underscore key themes of his visit.
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Golan: Mogherini: EU Does Not Recognize Israel’s Sovereignty
‘Our position has not changed’
(ANSAmed) — STRASBOURG, MARCH 27 — The European position on the Golan Heights “has not changed”, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Wednesday. “In line with international law and resolutions 242 and 497 and the UN Security Council, the European Union does not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights”.
US President Donald Trump has said that he recognized Israel’s right to sovereignty over the Golan Heights.
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How Qatar Bought Off the Entire D.C. Media Establishment
In their new documentary “Blood Money”, conservative filmmaker Mike Cernovich and journalist Jack Posobiec expose how the government of Qatar has paid members of the American political establishment millions of dollars to support their agenda.
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BBC Pays Damages to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko Over Report
The BBC has apologised and agreed to pay damages to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.
The apology relates to an incorrect report claiming a payment was made to extend a meeting between Mr Poroshenko and US President Donald Trump.
An article, published last May but since removed from the BBC website, alleged $400,000 was paid to Mr Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen.
The allegation, relating to a meeting in June 2017, was untrue.
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Head Transplant Doctors Xiaoping Ren and Sergio Canavero Claim Spinal Cord Progress
Surgeons from China and Italy claimed that two studies published Wednesday add evidence to their ability to treat “irreversible” spinal-cord injuries and a related controversial aspiration to perform the world’s first human head transplant.
Xiaoping Ren and Sergio Canavero said the new work they published in a scientific journal showed that monkeys and dogs were able to walk again after their spinal cords were “fully transected” during surgery and then put back together again. The neurosurgeons described the results as medically “unprecedented.”
The highly experimental procedures took place at Harbin Medical University in China. Both studies were supported by video evidence and published in Surgical Neurology International, a peer-reviewed medical journal based in the United States.
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Italy: FCA Shares Surge on Renault ‘Interest’
No comment from Italo-US carmaker
(ANSA) — Milan, March 27 — Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) surged 3.5% on the Milan bourse on a Financial Times report that Renault might be interested in the Italo-American carmaker after a possible merger with Nissan.
The FT said Renault is aiming to restart talks with Nissan within 12 months aimed at merging the two car groups, which are already allied, and then buy another group, with FCA one of the preferred targets.
The reported plan is part of a new strategy, adopted after the arrest of the former Renault no.1 Carlos Ghosn and the appointment of a new president, Jean-Dominique Senard, at the head of the Franco-Japanese carmaker.
FCA did not comment on the report.
Analysts highlighted a number of potential obstacles to a possible hook-up, with Mediobanca saying, for instance, that Renault on its own “does not have the firepower to launch an offer for FCA”, and there would be objections from the French government.
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An Open Letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison From Senator Fraser Anning
Prime Minister Morrison,
You are threatening to censure me in the Australian Parliament for statements I made following the mass murder of New Zealand Muslims on Friday the 15th of March. Labor leader Bill Shorten agrees with your intentions.
You accuse me of blaming the victims in my initial response to the atrocity. This, despite the fact that my statement unequivocally condemned this heinous act of murderous violence.
One of the victims of this rampage was a toddler. All were innocent. The perpetrator is a monster and no sane person would think otherwise.
There are no mitigating factors which could in any way excuse this evil act. The person responsible needs to feel the full force of the law.
After putting the immediate blame where it belongs, I looked for contributing causes. I said: “The real cause of bloodshed on New Zealand streets today is the immigration program that allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand”.
I was referring, obviously, to terrorists and the backlash they potentially incite. Nowhere in that statement did I imply that any of the victims were fanatics. They were hapless victims.
My brief comment was not an academic treatise seeking to identify all the causes. Instead I zeroed in on the New Zealand government’s indiscriminate immigration policies, which are very much in line with your own.
The censure motion is an attempt to deflect attention from your reckless policies, which are causing run-away diversity — a well-documented risk factor for communal conflict. Shame on you.
Your exploitation of the killing has helped open the door to the far left. Now, innocent conservatives and even the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation are being accused of guilt for mass murder on the flimsy basis that the killer’s manifesto opposed Islamic immigration to Europe.
This guilt by association has the same level of honesty as your own accusation against me. As Douglas Murray states, “Beliefs held by millions [are] not rendered invalid by [the] actions of a maniac.”…
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The Opposition Leader made the pledge as he delivered an address to 500 Chinese-speaking voters on a WeChat live online forum. It could make the biggest shake-up since 1996.
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Gene Charles Bristow, 54, appeared in the South Australian District Court on Thursday, after a jury delivered guilty verdicts against him earlier this month.
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Mark ‘Dutchy’ Ryan, 44, was driving to work when tragedy struck on the corner of Springvale Road and Princes Highway in Springvale, Melbourne at 4.50am on January 14 of this year..
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Jal Galuak attacked his 17-year-old victim as she walked through Springthorpe Gardens, in the south-east Melbourne suburb of Murrumbeena, on the night of April 8, 2007.
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Chilean Church to Pay Damages to Abuse Victims
150,000 dollars for 3 Karadima victims
(ANSA) — Santiago, March 27 — A Santiago appeals court on Wednesday ordered the Chilean catholic Church to pay damages of 150,000 dollars each to three sex-abuse victims of predator priest Fernando Karadima.
The three are James Hamilton, Juan Carlos Cruz and José Andre’s Murillo.
On September 28 Pope Francis defrocked Karadima.
In February 2011, after several years of a Catholic canonical investigation, the Vatican found Karadima guilty of sexually abusing minors and psychological abuse in Chile.
The case sparked a wider child-sex-abuse scandal that the Chilean Church has yet to fully recover from.
Many of the local faithful are still furious over a 2015 decision by Pope Francis to appoint Osorno Bishop Juan Barros, who had been one of Karadima’s proteges.
Francis caused an outcry during his visit to Chile in January last year when he defended Barros, who is accused of protecting Karadima despite having witnessed the abuse, saying there was no proof.
The pope subsequently admitted to making “serious mistakes” over child sex abuse by members of the clergy in Chile and accepted Barros’s resignation in June.
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Spain Refuses to Apologise for Conquering Mexico Five Hundred Years Ago
Spain’s government has refused a demand from Mexico’s new president that it apologise for conquering the country five hundred years ago.
Firing the first shots in what threatens to become a diplomatic row, the Left-wing Mexican leader Andre’s Manuel López Obrador announced on Monday that he had sent letters to Spain’s King Felipe VI and Pope Francis urging them to apologize for crimes committed against the indigenous peoples of what is today Mexico.
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Venezuelan Government Bans Guaidó From Running for Office Until 2034
Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro’s government banned opposition leader Juan Guaidó from running for public office for 15 years until 2034 Tuesday.
The announcement, which came from state comptroller and Maduro ally Elvis Amoroso, cited “irregularities” in Guaidó’s financial records, saying he has not disclosed information regarding funds for his foreign travels. Guaidó responded to the ban by reaffirming that he will continue his campaign against Maduro, the Associated Press reports.
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Five Migrants Arrested After Maltese Special Forces Raid Brings End to High Seas Hijack Drama
Five migrants who allegedly led the hijacking of a tanker in the Mediterranean to avoid being returned to Libya were arrested in Malta on Thursday after special forces stormed the vessel to take back control.
The five men, some of whom were led off the merchant vessel in plastic handcuffs, were among 108 asylum seekers who were rescued by the El Hiblu 1 tanker north of Libya on Tuesday.
The tanker was ordered by Libyan authorities to take the migrants to Tripoli, but they allegedly subjected the 12-man crew to physical threats and forced the vessel to sail north instead, towards Europe.
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Fresh Waves of Migrants to Head to Europe Soon, Aoun
(ANSAmed) — MOSCOW, MARCH 26 — Lebanese president Michel Aoun, in meeting with Chairman of the Russian State Vyacheslav Volodin, has warned that fresh waves of migrants would be heading to Europe soon due to Lebanon’s economic situation. The news was reported by Russian news agency TASS. Aoun noted that Lebanon has about 500,000 Palestinian refugees and 1.5 million Syrian ones in its territory, stressing that this is too many. Aoun said that it was in Europe’s interests to resolve this situation. (ANSAmed).
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Italian Priest Suspected in 1,000+ Illegal Migrant Documents Forgery Case
Italian police have connected a parish priest to a forgery operation that saw over a thousand Brazilians illegally buy Italian citizenship papers in a business worth five million euros.
The investigation into the group that was allegedly helping people illegally acquire the Italian documents took place over the last year with police making seven arrests in the commune of Verbania in Piedmont, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.
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Italy: Migrants ‘Hijackers Out of Need’ — Vatican Daily
After withdrawal of Sophia op ships says Osservatore Romano
(ANSA) — Rome, March 28 — The migrants who hijacked a merchant ship and forced it to go to Malta instead of taking them back to Libya did so out of necessity, Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano said Thursday.
‘Hijackers Out Of Need’ was the front-page headline over a report into the hijacking of the El Hiblu I on Wednesday.
“The night was one of strong tension after the withdrawal of the Sophia operation ships,” the daily said.
It said “it all happened while traffickers resumed putting to sea, thanks to good weather conditions, one dinghy after another”.
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‘They Are Pirates’ — Migrants Hijack Tanker in Bid to Reach Europe, Special Forces Storm Ship
A tanker hijacked by migrants it picked up in the Mediterranean has docked in the tiny island nation of Malta following a special forces operation.
The El Hiblu 1 picked up 108 migrants from smuggler ships after receiving a distress call on Wednesday, according to reports.
Unlike the migrant “rescue” ships operated by pro-open border “civil society” non-governmental organisations (NGOs), however, the commercial vessel did not go hundreds of miles out of its way to bring its new passengers to Europe, but moved to land them safely in Africa, much closer by — triggering a furious reaction.
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U.S. Border Patrol Records the Most Single-Day Arrests Along the Mexican Border in Over 10 Years
The U.S. Border Patrol recorded over 3,700 arrests along the southwest border on Monday, the most it has seen in a single day in over 10 years.
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) tweeted the news on Tuesday night.
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Watch: 50-Man Migrant Mass Brawl Caught on Video in Germany
A fierce mass brawl, reportedly between 50 men of mostly Turkish and Afghan backgrounds was caught on camera at a train station in the town of Rastatt.
The incident occurred on Saturday evening at around 6 pm and saw the two factions attack each other at the train station armed with several weapons including metal poles, Badische Neueste Nachrichten reports.
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Has Our Culture Hit a Dead End?
Music, movies & entertainment all seem to be repeating.
Have we hit a cultural brick wall?
Have we reached a dead end?
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Italy: ISTAT Chief Pulls Out of Families Congress Amid Row
Wholly personal decision to attend
(ANSA) — Rome, March 27 — ISTAT President Giancarlo Blangiardo on Wednesday pulled out of the world congress of families in Verona this weekend after a row over its anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-feminist agenda.
The head of the statistics agency pulled out after Italy’s biggest and most leftwing trade union, CGIL, asked him not to attend and ISTAT women’s group Femministat protested.
Blangiardo said his decision to be a speaker at the event had been “wholly personal” and did not reflect on ISTAT.
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Italy: Pro-Family Congress Celebrates Shift: ‘The Tide is Turning’
VERONA — Organizers of the massive World Congress on the Family, which begins Friday in Verona, Italy, are optimistic that people’s perceptions on the family are changing all over the world, with renewed appreciation for the importance of traditional marriage and the centrality of the family for civilization.
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Italy: Homosexuals, Radical Feminists Protest Verona’s Pro-Family Congress
VERONA — Busloads of leftist agitators are descending on the northern Italian city of Verona to protest the year’s largest international pro-family event, scheduled to take place March 29-31.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton Officially Launches Investigation Into Chick-fil-A Ban
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Thursday that he will be launching an investigation into San Antonio city councilmen after they banned Chick-fil-A from the San Antonio International Airport over “anti-LGBTQ behavior.”
“I have directed my office to open an investigation into whether the City’s action violates state law,” Paxton said in a letter to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and the city council.
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95% of Plastic in the Oceans Comes From Third World Countries
The mainstream media has been bombarding Western countries with news about the need to phase out plastic from our daily lives in order to protect the environment, focusing on the World’s oceans.
But how much of that plastic is actually the West’s fault?
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“South Sudanese Predator Who Raped a Girl in a Park After Threatening Her With a Cricket Bat is Stripped of His Australian Citizenship and Deported” twelve years later, eight after he was found guilty, it always amazes me how efficient and fast the courts can be sometimes…
“Aoun noted that Lebanon has about 500,000 Palestinian refugees and 1.5 million Syrian ones in its territory, stressing that this is too many. Aoun said that it was in Europe’s interests to resolve this situation.” Really? The war in Syria has ended, so why should they head for Europe? Just send them back home. And the Palestinians either won’t be a problem in that number or just send them back home too.
Gee, if CNN were to be brought to book as the BBC has been for fake news they would be bankrupt overnight, but then the libs would lose a mouthpiece. Same old story I suppose, it’s not what is reported, it’s what is deemed fit to be published, hence the establishment elite bias. Sniff!
If there are laws against owning guns in England, how is it someone was shot and killed? I don’t understand.
Not sure whether you’re being ironic, tedh754? Most gun crimes in the UK, as in the US, are perpetrated with illegal weapons, or ones “borrowed” from a family member.
The Yakuts, nevertheless, achieved their goal by speaking at rallies and causing riots.
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The head of Yakutia limited the recruitment of migrants to work in 2019
The head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, signed a decree prohibiting the attraction of foreigners to work in 33 areas of the economy in the republic in 2019. The document is posted on Thursday, March 28, on the official website of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
https://iz.ru/861550/2019-03-28/glava-iakutii-ogranichil-privlechenie-migrantov-na-rabotu-v-2019-godu
So a pom is charged with kidnapping a tourist and rape so loses his farm and is deported to the UK, yet hundreds of towellheads commit rape, murders and drug offences yet remain in Australia?
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Meet charming and enterprising Swedish youth in Stockholm city.
https://youtu.be/lYsAGkyNS2k
https://youtu.be/VdjN9pO4Pao