Protester holding ‘Hamas is Terrorist’ sign arrested by police

A counter-protestor carrying a banner condemning Hamas as a terror group was arrested after holding the sign aloft as pro-Palestine activists filed past him on Saturday.

Niyak Ghorbani, who was holding a banner reading “Hamas is terrorist”, was pulled to the ground and handcuffed by officers after an incident took place close to the march through central London.

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French President Emmanuel Macron, 47, fires back for first time at claims wife, 70, was born a man

French President Emmanuel Macron has angrily hit back at longstanding conspiracy theories that his 70-year-old wife Brigitte was born a man and is transgender, calling them “false and fabricated.”

Macron, 47, was unusually candid and emotional about the ongoing speculation in certain right-wing circles about Brigitte Macron, whom he married in 2007.

“The worst thing is the false information and fabricated scenarios,” Macron said at an International Women’s Day event in Paris Friday after he guaranteed the right to abortion in France’s Constitution.

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France’s appetite for frogs’ legs is endangering species in Asia, say campaigners

France’s hunger for frogs’ legs is “destructive to nature” and endangering amphibians in Asia and south-east Europe, a group of scientists and vets have warned.

More than 500 experts from research, veterinary and conservation groups have called on Emmanuel Macron, the French president, to “end the overexploitation of frogs” and afford the most traded species better protections.

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The rise of Romana Didulo, self described ‘Queen of Canada’, and what she’s up to now

To Romana Didulo’s followers, the Queen of Canada doesn’t live in a British palace – she’s in the rural village of Richmound, Sask.

Surrounded by farmland about 450 kilometres west of Regina near the Alberta border, Richmound has a population of just over 100. Since September 2023, it has also been home to Didulo and a group of her followers, leading to protests and heated confrontations with locals.

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German councils demand funds for bunkers, civil protection

German local councils on Saturday called for the government to refurbish out of use bunkers.

The comments were made by André Berghegger, the head of the Association of Towns and Municipalities, to the Funke media conglomerate.

They come as Russia’s war in Ukraine enters its third year and a day after Defense Minister Boris Pistorius visited civil protection facilities in Finland.

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Miami Beach v spring break: revelers and residents mourn city’s restrictions

There is a different look to spring break in Miami Beach this year, as hordes of students descend from around the country for the annual ritual of sunshine and youthful hedonism.

The palm trees, soft sands and cool blue Atlantic waters that draw tens of thousands to the month-long party are still there. Except now they’re obscured by scores of armed law enforcement officers, many sent at the behest of Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis.

Unprecedented images of South Beach almost as a military zone, combined with $100 car parking, alcohol bans, bar and beach closures and curfews, are hardly the impression that the usually tourism-friendly Miami Beach would wish to project.

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Virgin Mary statue that multiplied pizza and cried blood ruled a sham

A self-proclaimed mystic who told hundreds of devotees in Italy that her statue of the Virgin Mary shed tears of blood and could miraculously multiply plates of pizza has been declared a fraud by the Catholic Church.

A commission of Church-appointed experts told Gisella Cardia, 54, to stop gathering her followers every month in Trevignano, in central Italy, where she would go into a trance and write down messages the statue passed on to her.

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Good News for Singh’s School Lunch Plan? Dead bodies are going unclaimed in Ontario, and the numbers are climbing

The number of dead people in Ontario whose bodies were not claimed by loved ones or family members has surged in the last few years, according to provincial figures.

A total of 1,183 bodies went unclaimed in 2023 compared to 983 in 2022 and 438 in 2019, the Office of the Chief Coroner says.

Since 2019, there was been a 170 per cent increase in the number of unclaimed bodies.

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Germany: Six in Ten Adults Unwilling to Defend Country if Attacked

Less than 40 per cent of Germans said they would be willing to defend their nation with weapons even if it came under attack, a survey has found.

poll conducted by Forsa for German broadcaster RTL Deutschland, found that 59 per cent of adults said they would “probably not” or “absolutely not” take up arms to defend their homeland in the case of an invasion or other attack.

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‘He’s a liar and a hate-monger’: Former prime minister Kim Campbell slams Pierre Poilievre

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Kim Campbell called Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre a “liar and a hate-monger,” and suggested she won’t vote for his party in the next federal election.

Campbell, who was a Progressive Conservative prime minister for just over four months in 1993, made the comments on the “Beyond a Ballot” podcast in an episode released on Thursday to mark International Women’s Day.

“I think there might be some quite good people in the Conservative party. I have problems with their leader,” said Campbell.

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