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(SRN NEWS)-Olivia Rodrigo’s recent benefit show has put 20 million dollars in the pockets of pro-choice groups.  One of the biggest contributors was Melinda Gates, former wife of Microsoft baron Bill Gates and a self-described Catholic.  The cash was harvested by Planned Parenthood, the National Women’s Law Center and several other organizations that promote abortion.  Rodrigo has also pledged to give a portion of her concert ticket sales to abortion […]

(SRN NEWS)-Rachel Elser and Veronica Ivy — two men who are living as women — have taken the trophies at the Fort McMurray Club Championship, the Miskanaw Ladies Open, the B.C. Mid-Amateur and B.C. Mid-Master this summer.  Outrage is building, led by the group Women and Girl Alberta, which is calling on Canadian tournament authorities to bar males from competing against females.  Most major international sports governing bodies are doing just […]

For Kentucky author Wendell Berry, the environmental crisis he lamented to such great effect in his essays, poetry and fiction was also a human crisis — a deeply spiritual one. Berry, who died Monday at home at age 92, drew that connection in poignant writings across many decades. “Persons cannot be whole alone,” Berry wrote in “The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture,” his classic 1977 work. “It is wrong […]

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African civil rights groups are calling for a halt to the construction of additional data centers in the country until the use of scarce water, land and electricity resources has been investigated. With South Africa positioning itself as Africa’s main data hub and U.S. technology companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Equinix increasingly setting up digital infrastructure in the country, civil society organizations have raised the alarm […]

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — The European Union is closely watching how membership candidate Serbia will handle the funeral of the former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic, who was convicted of genocide by a U.N. court but remains a hero to many Serbs, an EU official said on Friday. The EU’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos said that the next few days “will be a very important test” after Mladic’s remains […]

Denmark said it hoped to begin sending rejected asylum seekers to non-European Union “return hubs” as early as 2027, ahead of a Friday meeting of five countries leading European efforts to establish such centers outside the continent. In June, European lawmakers voted to allow member states to set up migrant detention centers outside the EU, known as “return hubs.” Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in […]

LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration party Reform UK suspended two senior officials on Friday after they were filmed appearing to discuss accepting funds from a foreign donor in potential breach of British electoral law. The party said Dan Jukes, an adviser to leader Nigel Farage, and policy chief James Orr “have stepped down from their respective positions” pending the outcome of an internal investigation. On Thursday, broadcaster Channel 4 aired footage […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said Friday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. envoys are expected to visit Kyiv within the coming days as part of renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into its fifth year following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. Russian forces have […]

ISTANBUL (AP) — The remains of two more people have been recovered from the wreck of a passenger ferry that sank off the coast of Cyprus, the leader of the island’s northern territory said Friday. The findings bring the total confirmed deaths to 12, with 16 people still missing, Prime Minister Unal Ustel said in comments reported by the Cypriot newspaper Kibris. The Filo Jet was carrying 267 passengers and […]