Clashes erupted between protesters and riot police during demonstrations in Catalonia against the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel, convicted for calling the former Spanish king a thief, with cops in Barcelona firing rubber bullets.
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Facebook fined €7 million in Italy after refusing to address user data concerns
Italy has fined Facebook €7 million ($8.5 million) after the social network company failed to address and rectify user data practices that were flagged as a concern in November 2018.
Covid made me kill my wife: Husband who strangled his wife in lockdown is cleared of murder
A husband has been cleared of murdering his wife five days into the first lockdown after a jury heard how the pandemic caused him to ‘snap’.
Football player Wilfried Zaha says having to kneel every week and wear Black Lives Matter tops is ‘degrading’
Wilfried Zaha says it is “degrading” to have to take a knee before every game and is fed up of being used to “tick boxes” without change happening.
Wokeness gone mad as U.K. hospital demands midwives to stop using breastfeeding and breastmilk to be more ‘inclusive’
A hospital in the United Kingdom has issued new guidelines for midwives asking they stop using terms such as “breastfeeding” and “breast milk” to be more inclusive of transgender and non-binary people.
Wokeness and cancel culture from the US is a threat to France’ heritage and identity, French Politicans and intellectuals say
Politicians, prominent intellectuals, and academics in France have voiced concern that ‘out-of-control leftism and cancel culture’ from the United States is threatening French identity.
France & Germany threaten AstraZeneca with legal action if they favoured UK over EU when distributing Covid-19 vaccine
Tensions in a row between AstraZeneca and the EU over vaccine shortages have heightened further as Paris and Berlin said the company should face penalties or even legal action if it turns out it preferred Britons to Europeans.
Mass arrests as Riot Police struggle to contain Peaceful Anti-Lockdown Protests in the Netherlands
Some 240 people have been arrested as unrest spread to at least 10 municipalities across the Netherlands, with riot police using water cannons, batons, dogs and horses to break up unauthorized anti-lockdown gatherings and riots.
Czech restaurants & pubs open in defiance of Covid-19 rules, owners to launch ‘political movement’ to circumvent restrictions
Hundreds of restaurants and pubs have re-opened across the Czech Republic, defying the enduring Chinese Virus restrictions. The venues have been closed for months and owners say the restrictions have failed to improve the situation.
Are you ready for a British Newsmax? Get ready for GB News
Andrew Neil will be the main presenter of a new 24-hour news channel called GB News, which is set to go head-to-head with the BBC and could become a British version of Fox News or Newsmax respectively.
‘Poker turns woker’: Media promotes Dutch designer’s gender-neutral playing cards amid backlash
A young Dutch designer has managed to land gushing feature stories by international media on her new gender-neutral deck of playing cards, but the latest achievement in political correctness was met with yawns and mockery.
Peaceful Anti-lockdown rally in Amsterdam meets extreme Police Violence
Thousands of Anti-Lockdown protesters took to the streets of Amsterdam, decrying restrictive measures against the Chinese Virus. The unauthorized gathering was met with a strong riot police force.
As Belgium moves towards Xenophobia, owner of Kosher poultry factory in Antwerp hopes to relocate to Hungary
Following the European Court of Justice’s decision to uphold a Belgian ban on kosher slaughter, Wim van den Brande, owner of the Kosher Poultry Factory in Antwerp, was forced to fire his ten employees and close down the business.
Boris’ admin follows Trump in his last days and passes new measures to tackle Chinese genocide on Uighur’s
The UK government has publicly criticised China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims as “barbarism” and announced new measures to stop UK companies trading with Chinese firms connected to forced labour.
Experts warn Lockdown is creating ‘Unprecedented’ Mental Health Crisis
Experts in the fields of health, academia and charity have warned that the lockdown in the UK is creating a runaway pandemic of anxiety and depression.
EU leaders demand ‘standardised’ vaccine passport for Travel
EU leaders are demanding that the Commission should ‘standardise’ a vaccine passport across all member countries, and that it should be required for people to travel throughout the area.
HSBC says customers who don’t wear Face Masks could have their Accounts terminated
Banking giant HSBC has told its customers in the UK that if they refuse to wear face masks when entering a branch, they could have their accounts terminated.
French Government echoing Merkel, calling Big Tech a threat to Democracy
The French government has echoed Angela Merkel’s sentiment in saying it is “shocked” at Twitter’s banning of President Trump, asserting that Big Tech is a threat to democracy.
Elderly Britons aren’t willing to take Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as they’d rather wait for the English one
Elderly Britons are refusing the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine because they’d rather ‘wait for the English one’ and failing to turn up for appointments as ministers scramble to turbo-charge the jab’s roll out.
Investigation launched as 2 people die in Norway nursing home days after receiving Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine
The Norwegian Medicines Agency has announced that two nursing home residents passed away days after receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine, and that an investigation has been launched into the deaths.
Four people seriously injured in shooting in Berlin as police launch manhunt for perpetrators
Four individuals were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries resulting from a shooting in the German capital, according to Berlin’s police and fire services.
Yandex warns against limiting foreign ownership in Russian online streaming services
A draft law proposing to limit foreign shareholdings in Russian companies that offer online video streaming services to 20% could worsen the investment climate, a spokesperson for internet giant Yandex told Reuters on Monday.
Sky News Journalist jets off to South Africa amid scandal around her breaking Lockdown rules
The presenter had previously revealed it was always her intention to visit “my beloved Africa” before being asked to take time off-air.
UK businesses plea for EU deal as talks stall
British trucking firms, supermarkets and other businesses on Friday implored the government to strike a last-minute trade deal with the European Union, as the two sides’ leaders told their citizens to brace for New Year upheaval in the U.K.-EU trading relationship.
European tech start-ups near record $41 billion investment
European tech start-up investment has bounced back from the spring shock of the coronavirus outbreak and is on track to hit a record high this year, venture capital firm Atomico forecast.
Tech Giants push back against EU rules on illegal content online
Twitter and three other U.S. tech companies have urged the EU to take a flexible approach towards harmful and illegal online content instead of blanket rules requiring takedown, saying this would preserve an open internet.
Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow
Driverless robot buggies started delivering hot restaurant meals to paying customers in one central Moscow district on Wednesday, their operator, Russian Internet giant Yandex, said.
Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe
U.S. Pharma giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Europe’s medicines regulator.
UK Police using technology to track down Lockdown ‘dissidents’
Police in North Yorkshire are using number plate recognition cameras to track down people violating lockdown rules by leaving their area to visit a pub in a neighbouring area with less severe restrictions.
Rich people & Journalists exempt from Quarantine
Journalists and rich people defined as ‘high value business travellers’ will be made exempt from having to enter a 2-week quarantine when they return to the UK under new rules announced by the government.
Spanish ex-military plan to stop the country becoming a Socialist Dictatorship incites opposition
The Spanish Ministry of Defence has made a formal complaint to the Public Prosecutor’s Office over a WhatsApp group involving former high-ranking members of the Spanish Air Force.
4 confirmed dead including a child after a car rampage in Germany
Police have confirmed four deaths in Trier, Germany after a car drove through a pedestrian area. While the driver’s actions appear to have been intentional, the public prosecutor says there are no indications of an Islamist motive.
Lockdowns killed the first British High Street giant
The “king of the high street” has lost his realm. The collapse of British businessman Philip Green’s Arcadia fashion empire into administration on Monday looks set to bring an inglorious end to a remarkable career.
No COVID-19 vaccine, no normal life, UK minister demands
People who refuse a vaccine for COVID-19 could find normal life halted as restaurants, bars, cinemas and sports venues could block entry to those who don’t have proof they are inoculated, Britain’s new vaccine minister said on Monday.
National Trust hires Vote Leave boss to de-woke-ify itself after BLM support backfired
A strategic advisory firm headed by a former-Vote Leave boss has been hired by the National Trust in a bid to ‘de-woke-ify’ itself. The Trust was accused
UK and France sign new deal to curb illegal migrant flow
The United Kingdom and France have signed a new agreement to try to stop the undocumented movement of people across the Channel, upping patrols and technology to close off a dangerous route refugees and migrants use in hopes of reaching the UK on small boats.
Black Lives Matter has increased racial tension
A majority of people believe Black Lives Matter, the Marxist anti-Progress movement that spread across the US and UK this summer, has increased racial tension, according to a poll.
French Police Officers under fire after Black music producer brutally attacked
The Paris prosecutor’s office has announced the indictment of the cops accused of beating black music producer Michel Zecler. Three of the four officers will remain detained before trial.
Britain expects very significant week for Brexit talks
Britain and the European Union are heading into a “very significant” week, British foreign minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday, as talks over a trade
UK testing error wrongly tells thousands they have COVID-19
Over 1,300 people in Britain were inaccurately informed they were infected with Chinese Virus after a laboratory error at the government’s NHS Test and Trace system, the Department of Health and Social Care told Reuters on Saturday.
Britain to curb Google and Facebook with tougher competition rules
The code will be enforced by a dedicated unit within the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which this year said it needed new laws to keep the tech giants in check.
Shops, gyms to reopen in England under new lockdown plan
Haircuts, shopping trips and visits to the pub will be back on the agenda for millions of people when a four-week lockdown in England comes to an end next week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Monday.
Diego Maradona: Argentina legend dies aged 60
Football legend Diego Maradona, one of the greatest players of all time, has died at the age of 60. The former Argentina attacking midfielder and manager suffered a heart attack at his Buenos Aires home.
German government asks for incentives to increase downloads of tracing app
Germany’s Chinese Virus tracing app needs to be made more compelling for users by offering fast-track entry to venues and queue jumping for events, according to a proposal by the government of Germany’s most populous state.
German frigate conducts an illegal search of a Turkish vessel
A German frigate serving under a Greek-commanded EU naval mission conducted an hours-long and illegal search early on Monday on a Turkish cargo ship carrying humanitarian supplies in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea to war-torn Libya.
Far-left YouTuber attacks anti-Lockdown protestors
With “Die Zerstörung der CDU” (the destruction of the CDU) Rezo became known to a wider public. Now the Youtuber is taking a swing at the demonstrations against the Lockdown measures.
‘Silent march’ turns violent: German police make arrests as anti-Lockdown rally clashes with Antifa in Berlin (VIDEOS)
Activists protesting the Chinese Virus lockdown have organized another ‘silent march’ in Berlin.
EU could pay over $10 billion for Pfizer and CureVac vaccines
The European Union could pay more than $10 billion to secure hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine candidates being developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and CureVac, an EU official involved in the talks told Reuters.
Thousands protest against French bill to curb identification of police
Several thousand people protested in Paris on Saturday against a bill that would make it a crime to circulate an image of a police officer’s face with the intention that they should be harmed.
Britain asks MHRA to assess Pfizer vaccine for suitability
Britain has formally asked its medical regulator, to assess the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for its suitability, the first step in making the shot available outside of the United States.
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