Sex reassignment surgery could also be banned for minors. Reacting to the report, Ypomoni, a French parents’ group, said: “We welcome this return to reason.” Maud Vasselle, a mother whose daughter underwent gender transition treatment, told Le Figaro: “A child is not old enough to ask to have her body altered. “My daughter just needed...
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The 14 best news podcasts for breaking stories and analysis
The news is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, there’s so many wild new headlines every day, it can end up feeling impossible to keep up with it all. But that’s where news podcasts come in, giving listeners a detailed insight into the news, all on their own time schedule. Though they’re presented...
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Sinn Fein calls for elections after Leo Varadkar’s surprise resignation
In the last elections in 2020, Fine Gael finished behind Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail. His predecessor, Micheál Martin, the leader of Fianna Fail and deputy prime minister, said: “I was surprised. I didn’t expect it at all.” The announcement took a lot of courage, he added. Mr Varadkar suffered a defeat in a referendum...
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Kosovo PM: Britain should send more troops to protect us from Serbian invasion
Today, 45 British troops are involved in the 4,443-strong Nato contingent in Kosovo. In comparison, Hungary has provided 365 troops, America 572 and Italy 1,322. Mr Kurti conceded that while the presence of troops was “substantial” in the ethnic-Serbian majority north, overall it had not been increased “by much” and was “generally symbolic”. Mr Kurti...
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Putin’s transformation into the new Stalin is now complete
Putin has always had an admiration for Stalin and under his rule, statues of the tyrant have been reappearing at a gathering pace. There are now more than a hundred of them across Russia. Although Stalingrad, now Volgograd, has yet to revert to its wartime name, last year a statue was erected to commemorate the...
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Kim Jong-un daughter called a ‘top leader’ boosting succession status
North Korea has described Kim Jong-un’s teenage daughter as a top leader for the first time in a move that bolsters her status as the dictator’s successor. She was described as a “great person of guidance”, a term usually reserved for senior leaders, in an official report of a visit to a greenhouse farm. “The...
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Canada’s top court criticised after referring to female rape victim as ‘person with a vagina’
The case involved Christopher James Kruk, a 41-year-old from Maple Ridge, a city in British Columbia, who was convicted of sexual assault in March 2020. The woman testified at the trial that she woke up in Kruk’s home in May 2017 to find him having sex with her and attempted, unsuccessfully, to push him off....
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Top US official tells Netanyahu to hold elections before he turns Israel into ‘pariah’ state
The Israeli prime minister is one of four obstacles to peace in the Middle East, Mr Schumer claimed, along with Hamas, Right-wing Israelis, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader. If Mr Netanyahu remains in power, he said, the US should “use the tools at its disposal to make sure our support for Israel is aligned...
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Britain is now leading the world on transgender sanity
At long last, the adults have re-entered the room. Safeguarding of vulnerable children is back at the forefront of British healthcare. NHS England’s announcement that it will no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children is a truly historic moment in the ideological battle for biological reality that has been raging. This decision should have been...
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Hamas leader ‘Shadow Man’ may have been killed in Israeli air strike
Issa is notorious for keeping a low profile, constantly moving around Gaza’s tunnel network. It was only in 2011 that the first photograph of him emerged, standing next to Gilad Shalit, the IDF private who was taken hostage by Hamas before being freed in a landmark prisoner exchange. A promising basketball player in his youth,...
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Israel killed Hamas’s ‘number four’ and the top three are dead men, Netanyahu vows
The British government has pledged £117 million pounds towards protecting Muslim communities amid a rise in Islamophobia as it promises more action to tackle extremism. The new funding, announced just over a week after extra cash was promised to enhance security for Jewish groups amid soaring anti-Semitism, will be used to protect mosques, Muslim faith...
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The UK is the world’s second-most miserable country, as per research
A recent mental wellbeing report reveals that the United Kingdom is currently one of the least content places globally, surpassed only by Uzbekistan. As the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the strain of the cost-of-living crisis persist, Britain finds itself in the 70th position out of 71 countries for overall mental wellbeing, with...