About 120,000 pigs could be culled and their carcasses dumped because of a shortage of butchers, the industry has warned. A workforce shortfall has meant…
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US launches mass expulsion of Haitian migrants from Texas
The US has started expelling Haitians from a large makeshift camp at the Texas border, in an operation that could become one of America’s swiftest…
Covid 19 coronavirus: Mass vaccination event in South Auckland starts today
Crowds are beginning to gather in Auckland’s Manukau ahead of New Zealand’s first mass vaccination event. More than 16,000 South Aucklanders are set to receive…
Colorado mass vaccination sites to take walk-ins in bid to boost flagging demand for shots
All six drive-thru mass vaccination sites in Colorado are now taking walk-ins as the state tries to boost flagging demand for shots and COVID-19 hospitalizations…
Ethiopia ‘will be digging up mass graves for a decade’: Inside Tigray’s dirty war
WARNING: Distressing content The 78-year-old Orthodox priest stayed inside his house until the killers had gone. Then, leaning on his wooden cane and holding a…
US mass shooters exploited gun laws and loopholes before carnage
The suspect in the shooting at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket was previously convicted of assaulting a high school classmate but still got a gun. The…
Mass shootings in public spaces had become less frequent during the pandemic.
Until Tuesday, when eight people were killed in Atlanta-area spas, it had been a year since there had been a large-scale shooting in a public…
Pope holds Mass at Iraq cathedral after historic meeting with Muslim cleric
The Pope has performed Mass in a Baghdad cathedral after earlier holding a historic meeting with Iraq’s top Shia cleric. Francis was greeted by enthusiastic…
‘Horrible’: Witnesses recall massacre in Ethiopian holy city
Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the…
COVID-19: Seven mass vaccination centres open as government urges people not to bend rules
Thousands more people will be called for their coronavirus jabs at seven new mass vaccination sites opening in England today, as the government desperately urges…