The new mutant strain of Covid is spreading 70% faster than any other form of the virus, Boris Johnson has told the nation.
The prime minister said the strain could increase the UK’s R Rate by 0.4 as he announced brand new ‘tier four’ restrictions for London and the south-east this afternoon.
The festive bubble policy across tiers one, two and three has also been dramatically scaled back, with rules allowing three households to mix now restricted to Christmas Day only.
In October, for the first time, China overtook North America as the world’s largest film market. “Movie ticket sales in China for 2020 climbed to $1.988 billion on Sunday, surpassing North America’s total of $1.937 billion, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The gap is expected to widen considerably by year’s end,” wrote The Hollywood Reporter on October 18. “Analysts have long predicted that the world’s most populous country would one day top the global charts. But the results still represent a historic sea change”.
The analyst who led the forensic audit of Dominion Voting Systems in Michigan said on Friday the information state officials pushed to redact shows that the outcomes of races were changed.
“The original report had log evidence that we published in the report to show exactly what we did and exactly the findings. Now, those did ultimately get redacted. And so now, the complaint is ‘well, but there’s no real proof and Dominion says ‘no, these things can’t be done,’” Russell Ramsland Jr. said during a virtual appearance on Newsmax’s “Greg Kelly Reports.”
The New York Times has returned an award and had another withdrawn after it found discrepancies in its podcast on the Islamic State group.
After a two-month investigation, the newspaper said the podcast, Caliphate, failed to meet its editorial standards.
In the 2018 series, Shehroze Chaudhry, one of its central figures, claims he travelled to Syria and joined IS.
But the Times said on Friday that it found “a history of misrepresentations” about his involvement with the group.
The ringleader of a grooming gang who trafficked school girls as young as 13 into prostitution has been freed from prison after serving just a third of his sentence.
Ahdel ‘Eddie’ Ali, 32, led a sex gang with his brother Mubarak – known as Max- which targeted up to 100 vulnerable young women in Telford, Shropshire between 2006 and 2009.
DELTA, British Columbia, December 18, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Euthanasia activists campaigning to take over a Canadian hospice society because it refuses to lethally inject sick patients are now recruiting memberships from the Satanic Temple.
Since April 2020, a local group called Take Back Delta Hospice, aided by euthanasia lobby group Dying with Dignity, has been attempting a hostile takeover of the Delta Hospice Society by going door-to-door in the west coast community and signing up pro-euthanasia members.
Walmart brawl between two women over a PS5 ends in one stomping on the other, knocking her out cold
Bruh 🤦🏾♂️🥴 pic.twitter.com/0otB4kd8kA
— “Is Jamal Coming?” (@__justkeith) December 15, 2020
“Get on the ground before I f@cking taser you!” Calgary’s out-of-control police threaten a young man for… skating outside at a park? @TheRealKeean please find these boys and we will sue the police for them on Monday. pic.twitter.com/YADHEFugTn
— Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) December 19, 2020
A China-based Zoom executive has been charged by the Justice Department with disrupting video meetings that commemorated the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, Reuters reports.
Why it matters: This case could shake the foundations of U.S. tech cooperation with China. Researchers and U.S. government officials have warned of the possibility that the Chinese government might require China-based employees to hand over private company data to Beijing. This indictment indicates that those fears are, in fact, a reality.
Ontario is reporting more than 2,300 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 27 more deaths as lockdown measures are set to be extended in some COVID-19 hot spots on Monday.
Provincial health officials recorded 2,357 new infections on Saturday, up from 2,290 reported the previous day.
Saturday marks the fifth day in a row that the province has recorded more than 2,000 new daily cases of the virus.
LILLEY: Prepare for dark news regarding lockdown on Monday
The two weeks to flatten the curve became months that have not ended, so is it any surprise that the four-week lockdown for Toronto and Peel has been extended?
Coronavirus reversed a decade of progress helping world’s poor, minister says
International Development Minister Karina Gould isn’t running any victory laps despite ending 2020 by doing what so few of her political predecessors could — wrestling a sizable increase in Canadian foreign-aid spending.
Gould announced a $485-million increase in Canada’s $5.9-billion overseas development assistance budget this week, money earmarked for new international efforts to ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries.
Gould says the pandemic, in less than one year, wiped out a decade’s worth of progress in improving the plight of the world’s poorest people, especially children.
Prove it liar.
Peter Nygard’s Lolita Express! Inside the disgraced fashion mogul’s private jet turned mile-high strip club with mirrored ceilings, a stripper pole and a plush day bed as he faces sex trafficking charges
Doesn’t every jet come with a Stripper pole?
Come on, Eileen.
Come on, Mayor John Tory and Fire Chief Matthew Pegg, too.
This is not a police state.
Police Finally Swarm Filthy Reincarnated Autonomous Zone in Seattle, It Doesn’t End Well for Antifa
As we previously reported, Antifa had been resurrecting a new “CHAZ” in Seattle, building barricades around Cal Anderson Park. They were trying to prevent the police and the city from clearing out the park that they and the homeless had been occupying.
Watching our cameras at Cal Anderson Park as police make another arrest. #komonews pic.twitter.com/eWz4VaBlj2
— Kelly Koopmans (@KellyKOMO4) December 18, 2020
The RCMP say they have served tickets totalling $18,400 to representatives from three places of worship in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley for violating public health orders.
The Mounties said in a news release that the churches were hosting in-person gatherings contrary to provincial orders intended to protect people from COVID-19. On the Sunday mornings of Dec. 6 and Dec. 13, officers in Chilliwack, B.C., responded to reports of people gathering at three separate churches contrary to the health orders.
