Author: LoveWorld UK

A major search and rescue operation is ongoing in the English Channel involving a small boat off the coast of Kent, near Dungeness. A number of people are understood to have died in the incident and there were between 30 to 50 people are on board the vessel, a French source said. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency said HM Coastguard is working with the RNLI, Royal Navy, Border Force, French navy and Kent Police to look for the boat, while an air ambulance has also been sent to the scene. Temperatures have plunged below zero every night this week. Searches…

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Railways across the UK faces major disruption as thousands of rail workers have started a series of strikes over the Christmas period. British trade union the RMT has planned strikes by tens of thousands of railway workers across December and in early January after failing to find an agreement with train operators. More than 40,000 railway workers are due to walk out on Dec. Continuing from today through to Friday the 14th, then 16-17, also 24-27, and in the New Year Jan. 3-4 and 6-7 in a long-running dispute over pay. Britain faces widespread industrial unrest in the run up…

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Michelle Utter, a health care worker and single mother of grown sons who are active-duty military, said she was in great physical shape—running, working out, and martial arts—until she took the Pfizer vaccine for COVID. Utter described the ordeal she’s been through for the last two years—physically, trying to do her job and facing resistance and silencing from the Florida hospital that employs her. She’s not allowed to say, “vaccine injury.” She’s been on IV infusions for 17 months. Another vaccine victim, Steven Ordonia, a retired law enforcement officer and military veteran, talked about his ordeal, which began when he…

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Nigeria on Monday removed COVID-19 testing requirements for international travellers and it was no longer mandatory to wear masks on flights and inside airport buildings, the airlines regulator said. In a notice to airlines, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said travellers to and from Nigeria did not need to undergo COVID-19 irrespective of their vaccination status. The authority said travellers above 60 years and those with comorbidities were encouraged to use face masks. Nigeria has recorded 266,381 COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic and 3,155 deaths.

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Argentinian fans have all the confidence in the world ahead of their World Cup semi-final against Croatia as many planned to cheer their side on to win the match and straight through to the final. Some fans got ready by buying T-shirts and flags of their national team in downtown Buenos Aires while others, such as Nicolas Melana, showed their support for the national team in a particular way. Messi exchanged words with Dutch coach, Louis van Gaal, following the final whistle and called a Dutch player “a fool.” Argentina came into the World Cup as one of the favourites,…

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Billionaires Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey publicly disagreed about Twitter’s handling of child exploitation in a series of tweets over the weekend. Musk, who took over the company in October, took to the social media platform on Friday where he blasted former Twitter executives, stating that it “is a crime that they refused to take action on child exploitation for years.” His post was in response to a tweet from a Twitter user that linked to a New York Post report on a lawsuit that alleges Twitter refused to take down images of a teenager who was tricked into sending explicit photos of themselves to sex traffickers when they were aged between 13…

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Rishi Sunak has been warned by a key immigration body to avoid focusing on reducing the numbers of people coming into the UK amid a national staffing shortage in key industries. The independent migration advisory committee has urged the prime minister, who wants an overall cut in net migration, to instead cooperate with the private sector on how to manage and address shortages in the labour market. In its annual report, the committee has called for the piloting of a rural visa scheme to help send workers to depopulated parts of the countryside. But it has also cautioned against reopening…

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The latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter files,” published on Dec. 12, revealed more internal details about how and why the social media platform suspended former President Donald Trump’s account in January 2021. In a Twitter thread, journalist Bari Weiss, a former New York Times editor who quit in 2020, recalled what Trump had written on Jan. 8, 2021, which referred to the results of the 2020 election. She noted that Trump had “one remaining strike before being at risk of permanent suspension.” One post by Trump on Jan. 8 was: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST,…

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Train passengers braced for disruption as the first 48-hour rail strike of the week began on Tuesday in a months-long row over pay and conditions. About 40,000 workers will strike on Tuesday and Wednesday, as well as Friday and Saturday, after the UK’s biggest rail union, the RMT, voted to reject the latest offer. As the strikes by members of the RMT at Network Rail and 14 train operators got under way, only about a fifth of train services are expected to be running around the country on those days. Trains will run between 7.30am and 6.30pm with a reduced service…

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