Month: July 2020

> PWTorch editor Wade Keller presents a special Thursday Flagship edition of the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast featuring a WrestleMania 36 Preview with ex-WWE Creative Team member and professional stand-up comedian Matt McCarthy. (Search “wade keller” to subscribe in podcast app or CLICK HERE to subscribe in Apple Podcasts.) WWE SMACKDOWN PRIMER JULY 30, …

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It recalls an era now almost forgotten in Western Europe, but when Jakub Gawron decided to join last month’s gay Pride march in the northeastern Polish city of Bialystok, it took physical courage to take his place in the line.  As the crowd of LGBTQ activists started to march, they were pelted with both rocks …

Read more “Polish ruling party whips up LGBTQ hatred ahead of elections amid ‘gay-free’ zones and Pride march attacks”

Germany expects a No Deal Brexit and is not prepared to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement, according to leaked details of an internal briefing paper for Angela Merkel’s government. The leaked paper is the first evidence that Germany may be preparing to let Britain walk away with No Deal rather than back down to Boris Johnson’s …

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Indian villagers in the state of West Bengal came up with a novel form of punishment for a suspected local criminal terrorising their neighbourhood – dig a trench around his house. Mafizul Haq, the younger son of Ainul Haq, a panchayat – or village council – leader from the Trinamool Congress party, stands accused of violent …

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Israel has positioned dummy decoys dressed as soldiers on the border with Lebanon, according to local reports, as the country prepares for strikes by Hizbollah. Israel and Hizbollah, which last fought a war in 2006, are on high alert after Israel carried out a series of attacks on the group in Lebanon and neighbouring Syria …

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South Africa’s biggest retail chains were forced to close outlets in Nigeria and Zambia on Wednesday as a wave of tit-for-tat violence against foreign-owned businesses spread across the continent. Mobs gathered in several Nigerian cities to avenge deadly attacks on immigrant-owned premises in the townships of Johannesburg and Pretoria by looting South African supermarkets and …

Read more “South African businesses in Nigeria attacked as diplomatic rift grows over xenophobic riots”

Iran is believed to be holding two British-Australian women captive in the hope of exchanging one of them for an Iranian imprisoned in the US on charges of evading American sanctions. Tensions between Britain and Iran escalated dramatically after it emerged the women were being held in the first recent case of Tehran arresting British …

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Bill Gates said he regrets meeting with Jeffrey Epstein and giving a $2 million donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through him after the financier was convicted of sex offences. Mr Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, met with Epstein in 2013, five years after he pleaded guilty to two charges of soliciting a minor …

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A bitter fight has erupted in Germany’s conservative CDU party over whether they should consider working with the far-right Alternative for Germany in the eastern state of Thuringia. Angela Merkel’s party face an invidious choice in Thuringia after recent elections made the building of a stable state government next to impossible. Ms Merkel’s CDU only …

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Dutch startup Crobox has been crowned the winner of the LVMH Innovation Award 2020. The company was awarded the top prize after presenting an “ambitious project” to analyze consumer behaviour, beating 1,200 other applications. The company will now work with LVMH for a year. Founded in the Netherlands in 2014 by Leonard Wolters, Rodger Buyvoets …

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