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The Trauma Care International Foundation is today organising a Voluntary Blood Donation drives, marking the World Blood Donor Day, which is today 14th June 2019. The World Blood Donor Day is a global UN campaign aimed at highlighting the issues surrounding blood donation. World Blood Donor Day has been celebrated on the same day every year since it was established in 2004, encouraging people worldwide to give blood. Just 1 pint of blood can help save 3 lives. There are 1.3 million registered voluntary blood donors in England and Wales, and every day in England, around 8,000 blood transfusions are…

A new report from the Foreign Office has placed freedom of belief at the very heart of promoting human rights and democracy. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Human Rights and Democracy report focuses especially on the persecution of Christians. In the preface, the Foreign Secretary wrote: “I was deeply disturbed to learn that 215 million Christians faced persecution in 2018, according to a study by the campaign group Open Doors… I am not convinced that our efforts have always been commensurate with the scale of the problem or the empirical evidence that Christians often endure the greatest burden of persecution.”…

A secret ballot was held in the House of Commons, with the result given some time after 13:00 BST. Outgoing leader Theresa May refused to say which of the 10 contenders she had voted for, telling reporters: “That’s none of your business.” Any candidate who fails to secure at least 17 MPs’ votes will be eliminated from the contest and the results are in.  Three contenders – Mark Harper, Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey – have been knocked out – so we are down to seven.

Boris Johnson kicked off his campaign to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May, with a pledge to lead Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 and a warning to his divided Conservative Party that “delay means defeat”. Johnson, favourite for the top job nearly three years since he led the official campaign to leave the EU, praised the strength of the British economy, promised to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31 and tackle despair across the country. Johnson, whose unconventional style has helped him shrug off a series of scandals in the past, has won over many in his party…

MPs have rejected a Labour-led effort to take control of Parliament’s timetable, blocking the latest attempt to stop a no-deal Brexit.  The Commons opposed the move by 309 votes to 298. If passed, it would have given opponents of a no-deal Brexit the chance to table legislation to thwart the UK leaving without any agreement on the 31 October deadline. The result of the vote was greeted with cheers from the Tory benches. Ten Tory MPs, mostly pro-Europeans, rebelled against the government by backing Labour’s motion. Conversely, eight Labour MPs – mostly Eurosceptics or MPs in constituencies which voted Leave…

Product defects from U.S. companies caused and fueled the catastrophic 2017 Grenfell Tower apartment fire in London that killed 72 people, according to a lawsuit filed in Philadelphia on Tuesday on behalf of injured victims and families of those killed. Attorneys for the plaintiffs said they represent the estates of 69 of the 72 people who perished in the high-rise apartment fire, and 177 survivors who suffered life-altering injuries. The 420-page lawsuit demands a jury trial but did not specify the amount of compensation it was seeking. The plaintiffs’ attorneys said the case marks one of the highest numbers of…

The conditions for the existing Brexit deal will not change, despite the election of a new prime minister in the UK, said a spokesman for the European Commission at a regular press conference in Brussels on Tuesday Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who remains favorite to succeed Theresa May as UK prime minister, threatens recently that if the European Union doesn’t agree to offer UK better conditions for its Brexit departure. He will reject paying the EU 39 billion-pound “breakup fee” which refers to the debt that the UK owes to the EU, scheduled to be paid back by stages…

Boris Johnson has warned any further delay to Brexit will spell disaster for the Conservatives ahead of the launch of his leadership campaign. He will tell supporters the UK must leave on 31 October and any more “can-kicking” will mean defeat for the party at the next general election. He will say his two election victories as London mayor mark him out as the person most able to beat Jeremy Corbyn. Home Secretary Sajid Javid will also make his pitch to MPs on Wednesday. In a campaign video released on Tuesday, Mr Javid said he would bring a “fresh look”…

Wage growth beat market and economist expectations in the three months to April. Pay rose by 3.4% compared with a year ago. After taking inflation into account, wage growth was 1.4%, official figures show. The unemployment rate remained at 3.8%, and has not been lower since the October to December 1974 period, the Office for National Statistics said. The employment rate for women was 72%, the highest on record.  This is after changes to the state pension age leading to fewer women retiring between the ages of 60 and 65

A truck driver transporting Mexican goods to the United States expressed relief near the border on Monday, after Mexico averted a tariff war with its largest trading partner. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened to impose 5% import tariffs on all Mexican goods starting on Monday if Mexico did not commit to do more to tighten its borders. In a joint declaration after three days of talks in Washington, both countries said Mexico agreed to immediately expand along the entire border a program that sends migrants seeking asylum in the United States to Mexico while they await adjudication of their…