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Man whose body produces alcohol…
A Belgian man has been acquitted of drunk driving. The Guardian reports that the man has auto-brewery symptoms (ABS). The syndrome is an extremely rare condition in which the body produces alcohol. His lawyer, Anse GGhesquiere, said that in “another unfortunate coincidence,” her client worked at a brewery, but three doctors who independently examined him…
Israeli soldiers shoot Palestinian!
On Sunday, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian young man in Jerusalem. IMEMC News reports that the man was shot in the Shu’fat refugee camp, north of the historical city. Reports said several military vehicles invaded the refugee camp, and it led to protests. The soldiers were said to have fired many live rounds, rubber-coated bullets, and…
Refugee stranded in Africa for 16 years!
Saleh Ahmed Handule Ali, 33, left the UK in 2008 for East Africa. But he became stranded. Ali arrived in the UK at the age of nine in 2000 with his mother and two younger siblings from Somalia. They had gone to join Ali’s father, whom the government had granted refugee status. Since the family…
MP from slave-owning family set to gain millions of pounds…
Richard Drax, a British MP from a slave-owning family is set to gain 3 million pounds from the sale of his family’s plantation. The Guardian reports that he is a subject of criticism for his ancestors’ role in Caribbean slavery. Despite threats to make him pay reparations and seize his family’s plantation, the government is…
Nigerian asylum seekers, others in Ireland get relief!
Ireland’s Justice Minister, Helen McEntee has said the Irish government will introduce some measures that will favour asylum seekers from unsafe countries. Irish Independent reports that those in that category will be processed through a fast-tracked international protection system. That step will be part of a further clampdown on record levels of immigration. The plan…
Rewriting History!
When some descendants of migrants who are now citizens of foreign countries and happen to be in government talk, one wonders where their sense of history is. So it is with Kemi Badenoch, the British Secretary of State for Business and Trade. When addressing financial bosses at TheCityUK’s international conference in London last week, Badenoch…
Chicago approves $1.32 bn for migrants!
Chicago has committed a whopping sum of $1.32 billion to migrant aid. Courthouse News Service reports that the money is split between an additional $70 million to feed and house new migrants and $1.25 billion to create more affordable housing and economic opportunities across the city over the next five years. The $1.25 billion represents…