By William J. Furney The Chinese regime has lied and suppressed information about the new coronavirus on such a scale that the mandarins in the halls of power in Beijing
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By William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid. It
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By William J. Furney It’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, yet the barbaric and somtimes fatal ritual is still being performed on around 3 million girls
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By William J. Furney The United Kingdom has become so undesirable that even the royals are bailing. Forget Brexit — all eyes are now firmly on Megxit. The four-nation country
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By William J. Furney A judge in England has ruled that veganism is “important” and deserving of respect, and that he was “satisfied overwhelmingly that ethical veganism does constitute a
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By William J. Furney It doesn’t matter that Donald John Trump will most likely survive attempts to topple him, after the Senate votes to acquit the contentious American leader in
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By William J. Furney Boris Johnson’s “extraordinary” success, to use his own post-victory description of his election gamble, is testament to the power of the simple slogan — trotting the
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By William J. Furney North Korea, the most isolated country in the world, has leaders who are big on bombastic image but critically short on vital substance. The attention-hungry totalitarian
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By William J. Furney Almost everywhere I go on my travels, all I see are enormous people carrying enormous bags and dining on huge meals and downing waterfalls of drinks.
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By William J. Furney Mike Eastabrook is a UK-based vice president of the advocacy group Foreign Friends of Catalonia, which seeks to counter what he calls “the crude repression of
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