A B.C. teacher was suspended for 15 days without pay by her school district after she shared two anti-SOGI 123 pamphlets with a parent. Dori Waldene Hannibal is an elementary school teacher in the Coquitlam School District. According to a decision from the BC Commissioner for Teacher Regulation, Hannibal was approached by a member of […]

RSPCA has dealt with more than 21,000 animal cruelty cases since coronavirus lockdown began as charity appeals for more help Some 21,137 suffering animals have been rescued by RSPCA during lockdown  British charity’s call centres have been inundated by 66,000 calls in three weeks Launched an emergency appeal to call for donations as the pandemic […]

WHITE House officials were instructed to prepare for a transition if Donald Trump were to lose to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Russell Vought, acting director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, issued a memorandum providing guidance on Presidential transition activities. The memo, released Monday, directed executive departments and agencies […]

PRESIDENT Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he might require international travelers to get tested for the coronavirus when they enter the United States. Trump announced the possibility at the White House during a meeting in the Oval Office with Florida Gov Ron DeSantis to discuss reopening the Sunshine State. Trump said the government is “looking […]

Heart-breaking moment girl, five, cries inconsolably at her mother’s funeral after the frontline nurse died during the coronavirus pandemic Zhang, 32, died from a cardiac arrest after saving patients for two months Her young daughter was overcome with emotion at her cremation service Footage shows the child crying ‘mum, don’t leave me behind’ in Jinan, China […]

The mayor of Prague has confirmed he is under police protection, days after a news report suggested he was the target of an assassination plot. Czech newspaper Respekt alleges a Russian agent carrying the poison ricin arrived in the country three weeks ago. Mayor Zdenek Hrib refused to say why he was under protection but […]

GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) appealed for more flight capacity on Tuesday to step up shipments of diagnostic tests and protective equipment to areas where COVID-19 is spreading, especially Latin America. Paul Molinaro, chief of WHO operations support and logistics, said global vaccine shipments were disrupted in April and if this continued […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The traditional lighting that hangs between the minarets of Turkish mosques, usually packed for evening prayers in the holy month of Ramadan, is urging Turks to stay at home this year as the country battles the coronavirus pandemic. Known as “mahya”, the tradition of stringing up devotional messages in lights from the […]

Britain’s barely-used NHS Nightingales may FINALLY see patients today when hospitals become ‘Covid-free zones’ and restart thousands of cancer and other treatments put on hold by crisis Five of the seven Nightingale sites have opened – but they are all largely empty   Growing calls for the sites to be used to care for people recovering from […]

PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic has reported its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus cases in more than six weeks as it eases out of a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of infection. The number of cases rose by 41 on Monday, bringing the total to 7,449, with 223 deaths. The central European […]