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Devon teacher found with child abuse images
September 26, 2019 · By BBC News for www.bbc.com
A teacher at a girls’ grammar school was caught with hundreds of child abuse images on his computers. Paul Wheller, 48, was arrested while teaching at Torquay Girls’ Grammar School, Devon. The teacher admitted three counts of making indecent images of children when he appeared at Exeter Crown Court. He was ordered to do a […]
Read More...US Congress inches closer to passing Hong Kong human rights bill
September 26, 2019 · By Aljazeera for www.aljazeera.com
The United States Congress has moved closer to passing legislation that would require an annual review of its trade and business policy towards Hong Kong, angering the Chinese government and giving a boost to the city’s pro-democracy movement. Members of the US House of Representatives’ committee on foreign affairs unanimously approved the Hong Kong Human Rights Acts on Wednesday, and […]
Read More...Australia probes PayPal amid child abuse payment fears
September 26, 2019 · By Agence France-Presse for news.abs-cbn.com
SYDNEY – (UPDATE) Australia’s financial regulator on Tuesday ordered an investigation into global money transfer platform PayPal, amid concerns it may be being misused by sex offenders to buy child abuse material from Asia. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) demanded an external auditor investigate “ongoing concerns” about breaches of the country’s anti-money […]
Read More...‘Revolutionary’ new class of cancer drugs approved
September 25, 2019 · By James Gallagher for www.bbc.com
A “revolutionary” new class of cancer drug that can treat a wide range of tumours has been approved for use in Europe for the first time. Tumour-agnostic drugs do not care where the cancer is growing in the body as long as it has a specific genetic abnormality inside. UK doctors testing the drugs said […]
Read More...Prophetic response to a dictatorship
September 23, 2019 · By Mary Aileen D. Bacalso, Manila for international.la-croix.com
rivilege of the writ of habeas corpus, dissolved Congress, and closed media institutions. Father Ed Gerlock, chaplain of the Federation of Free Farmers, was one of several Catholic priests immediately arrested and thrown into prison after the declaration. He was traveling in the southern region of Mindanao, giving religious recollections, when he was arrested on the […]
Read More...Vatican may try priests on charges related to sex abuse at pre-seminary
September 23, 2019 · By Cindy Wooden for catholicphilly.com
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican City State prosecuting attorney requested an indictment against two priests on charges related to the sexual abuse of boys at a minor seminary located at the Vatican. Following an investigation that began in November 2017, the Vatican prosecuting attorney issued notices Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 requesting that Father […]
Read More...Climate change: Electrical industry’s ‘dirty secret’ boosts warming
September 19, 2019 · By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent for www.bbc.com
It’s the most powerful greenhouse gas known to humanity, and emissions have risen rapidly in recent years, the BBC has learned. Sulphur hexafluoride, or SF6, is widely used in the electrical industry to prevent short circuits and accidents. But leaks of the little-known gas in the UK and the rest of the EU in 2017 […]
Read More...Climate change: Greenland’s ice faces melting ‘death sentence’
September 18, 2019 · By David Shukman for www.bbc.com
Greenland’s massive ice sheet may have melted by a record amount this year, scientists have warned. During this year alone, it lost enough ice to raise the average global sea level by more than a millimetre. Researchers say they’re “astounded” by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around […]
Read More...The fall of plastic, the rise of paper, and the gold rush at the center of 2019’s unlikeliest cultural battle.
September 18, 2019 · By SETH STEVENSON for slate.com
One day in 2015, swimming in waters off Costa Rica, a sea turtle felt himself brusquely hauled from the ocean and onto the deck of a small boat. He struggled against the human hands pinning down his flippers. He endured a biopsy and was affixed with a metal tag. When the researchers noticed an object […]
Read More...Total of 43 convicted sex offenders across Ireland pose ‘high’ risk of re-offending
September 18, 2019 · By Darragh McDonagh for www.irishmirror.ie/a>
A total of 43 convicted sex offenders living in communities across Ireland pose a “high” or “very high” risk of re-offending. Officials said 146 freed perverts are being monitored under the Sex Offender Risk Assessment and Management scheme at the beginning of this year. Aged between 20 to 81, their offences include rape, defilement of […]
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