There’s an easy and efficient way, says scientists, to treat the extremely rare cases of serious blood-clots that develop from Astra-Zeneca’s vaccine against Covid. Three patients in Canada developed what is called “vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia”, or VITT, after receiving the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. That produces blood clots — a symptom that led to panic across […]
Three senior leaders at Amnesty International UK have stepped down with immediate effect because they no longer felt able to continue in their roles. The charity’s leadership has been under fire since the publication of an internal review in April that found incidents of overt racism at its international secretariat, a separate body that is also based in the […]
Of all the war criminals and mass murderers I have encountered in 40 years of reporting in conflict zones, Ratko Mladic was the most chilling. The United Nations ex-Yugoslavia Tribunal’s final verdict — life imprisonment for genocide — brings back memories that even a hard-bitten war reporter finds hard to erase. ** Dead children’s graves […]
United Nations judges have sentenced Ratko Mladic, known as the “Butcher of Bosnia”, to life in prison for genocide and other war crimes. As this is in a final judgment, there can be no further appeal. Mladic, now 78, sat without a mask in the war crime tribunal’s dock behind a sheet of glass. He […]
The unmeasurable price of war. The title the BBC gave Paul Martin’s article, which was the script of a broadcast he made in one of his FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT feature pieces from the region of the Middle East and Africa. It’s still relevant in the wake of another conflict in which civilians paid a […]
Two former Amnesty International UK board members have apologised for their “inaction and silence”, while accusing the organisation of failing to investigate evidence of a toxic culture. NOTE: See latest development in this story headlined: Three Amnesty International staff resign…’ Ex-board member James Lovatt and former vice-chair Hannah Perry revealed they had written separate letters […]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/ Based on that article, it appears there is no significant difference in death rates across the US racial divides. However, subsequent analysis appears to show a different picture. The truth may be more complex. Watch this space.
By Paul Martin. Last Thursday (April 8 2021) Andy Green, 54, scored a massive court victory against Betfred, which now has to pay him 1.7 million pounds plus solicitors’ costs. The betting company had refused to pay him his winnings, claiming there had been a ‘glitch’. But Andy Green, 54, says the three years […]
Criminals are set to exploit a huge loophole as Britain begins a mass roll-out of free Covid test kits.
Mike Pompeo, the former United States CIA director and former US Secretary of State, has reiterated his conclusion that the virus causing the Covid pandemic worldwide most likely originated in a top Chinese laboratory. In an interview shown on Fox News, Pompeo said “significant evidence” remained that the coronavirus had its origins in a Chinese laboratory. […]