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Striking workers blockading oil refineries in France have disrupted the distribution of gasoline in France this week. At the European nations conference in Prague President Emmanuel Macron called for things like: "calm" "responsibility" trying to discourage a rush by motorists to fill up their tanks. One in five French service stations having problems providing fuel to customers today. Late today word that in some parts of France motorists and truckers were being subjected to restrictions on the amount of fuel they could fill up with. (30 liters or 7.93 gallons for cars and 150 liters or 39.63 gallons for trucks)...

A consumer-generated image of a plus-sized woman posted to Abercrombie & Fitch’s social media account ignited a debate on whether the retail company was “normalizing” obesity and unhealthy eating habits in the name of body diversity and inclusion. The image was initially posted last week on the company’s official Instagram account and went viral over the weekend, with Twitter commenters offering overwhelmingly negative reactions. “New Abercrombie & Fitch ad just dropped…. This season they are featuring diabetes and heart attacks,” tweeted Natalie Danelishen. “She has a pretty face, too bad society told her not only was it healthy to look...

Three people were injured in a shooting outside a high school football game in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday night, police said. Two adults and one student were transported to local hospitals after they were shot at Whitmer High School during the final quarter of its game against Central Catholic High School, Toledo police said in a press release.

Russian citizens who criticize the Kremlin could find themselves on the receiving end of a nasty visit from Chechen forces, according to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin’s attempted "partial mobilization" of fighting-aged Russians into the war in Ukraine has prompted a wave of social displeasure, including a mass exodus of apparent draft dodgers and protests in the outlying regions where people are bearing the brunt of the war. Russian lawmaker Adam Delimkhanov, an ethnic Chechen politician known for threatening to decapitate the relatives of a human rights activist, warned university students against any display of disrespect. “I...

Recently mobilized Russian soldiers are decrying "inhumane" conditions, weapons shortages and mistreatment by officers, according to video published by the independent news website The Insider on Wednesday. Footage of new recruits sleeping on the floor, being armed with outdated rifles and ordered to source their own supplies appeared almost immediately after President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial” mobilization last month. Around 500 troops gathered in western Russia’s Belgorod region near the Ukrainian border with no training and no knowledge of where they were being deployed, the latest video’s authors said. “Nobody needs us,” a voice behind the camera, flanked by...

As gas prices have risen for 15 consecutive days and OPEC+ announced production cuts — which could drive prices even higher — Fox News contributor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove argued Republicans stand “a good chance” of gaining control in the Senate after the midterm elections, on “Cavuto Live” Saturday, as inflation remains a top concern for voters. “The Senate is a difficult picture for the Republicans because there are 21 Republicans up and only 14 Democrats. None of the Democrats are up in states that Donald Trump won. And two of the Republican seats...

Click to enlargeAttack On Kerch Bridge: Initial Geolocation Of Damage🇷🇺 This will undoubtedly go down in history as a textbook conventional strategic strike on vital infrastructure. Yet we do not yet know how it was achieved. The fog of war is still thick, just hours after the attack.Ahead of fresh satellite imagery, I have made a first pass at geolocating the damage, caveats apply. It appears to be south of the steel arches over the shipping lane.At least three spans of road appear to have collapsed into the sea. There are two sets of lanes and only the inbound (towards...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 3, 2022 / 16:00 pm Most Catholics believe that President Joe Biden, the nation’s second Catholic president, should not run for a second term in 2024, according to a new EWTN News/RealClear Opinion Research Poll of likely Catholic voters released Monday. The poll, conducted Sept. 12–19, shows Biden continues to face challenges in garnering support among Catholic voters in the run-up to Election Day on Nov. 8. In particular, the poll indicates waning support for the president among Hispanic Catholic voters, traditionally a strong source of support for the Democratic Party. Among other highlights of the...

Thousands of animal lovers flock to churches seeking blessings for their pets ahead of feast day of Saint Francis Members of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and hundreds of pet lovers lobbied on Oct. 2 for animal rights after the blessing of pets in churches across the Philippines. PETA, the largest animal rights organization in the world with over nine million members, said Catholics must treat their pets as “members of their family,” especially during natural disasters. The group’s call came after hundreds of dogs and cats were swept away by flash floods during the onslaught...

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Moscow, October 3, Interfax - The relations of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Roman Catholic Church are really frozen now, Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, said. "Lately, unfortunately, I have to say that our relations are practically frozen," he said on air of the Church and the World program on Russia-24 TV. According to the metropolitan, some comments of Pope Francis and his assistants "do not contribute at all" to the preparation of the Pontiff's meeting with Patriarch Kirill and further cooperation between the two Churches. To illustrate...

A change in the university's bookstore service provider 'brought with it several decks of tarot cards, an increased promotion of astrology, and numerous sexualized children’s books.'(LifeSiteNews) — The University of Notre Dame campus bookstore is making LGBT ideology and astrology practices available by selling gay children’s books and tarot cards. On Wednesday, The Irish Rover, the campus newspaper, published an article detailing various products available in the school’s store, including content for children. “Notre Dame recently signed a contract with Barnes & Noble, switching their bookstore services from Follett Company,” the article began. “This change has brought with it several...

At least 30.000 Russian soldiers stranded in eastern Ukraine!

An angry tourist smashed two ancient sculptures at the Vatican after being denied a chance to meet with the pope. It's just the latest in a series of instances of visitors behaving badly in Rome. Read on to find out what happened, what authorities said about the man, and how long it will take for the ancient works to be repaired. The incident happened around lunchtime in the Museo Chiaramonti, which is part of the Vatican Museums. It holds about 1,000 works of ancient statuary and Roman portraits. The man demanded to see the pope, the newspaper Il Messaggero reported....

Turkey’s “September 12” military junta — which had taken power in a coup on that day — hanged Necdet Adalı on this date in 1980, followed a few hours later by Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu. Respectively a left-wing alleged terrorist and a right-wing* alleged one, they were offered up together with intentional ideological balance in the military’s bid to quash the years-long warfare between factions that marred the 1970s. Both were condemned for a few of the 5,000-plus political murders that took place during those years, and both doubtfully; Adalı famously declined to participate in an escape attempt for fear it would...

On the ropes and with no message about rising crime or the struggling economy to appeal to voters, President Joe Biden has gone to pot. Literally. The president’s election-eve marijuana decriminalization order has him yet again putting politics over people’s lives and health. In a shameless attempt to buy the votes of young people and lower-income minority communities, Mr. Biden is waving his pen around again to dig himself out of the political cellar. The American Left, and some on the Right, along with the Big Tobacco companies already responsible for millions of deaths from their products, have spent heavily...

The Battle of Lepanto: When Christians Were Skinned Alive for Refusing Islam“I am a Christian and thus I want to live and die. My body is yours. Torture it as you will.”Today in history, on Oct. 7, 1571, one of the most cataclysmic clashes between Islam and the West — one where the latter for once crushed and humiliated the former — took place.In 1570, Muslim Turks — in the guise of the Ottoman Empire — invaded the island of Cyprus, prompting Pope Pius V to call for and form a “Holy League” of maritime Catholic nation-states, spearheaded by the...

The governor of Nablus, Ibrahim Ramadan, infuriated armed men in Nablus when he spoke about the mothers who encourage their sons to commit suicide. The statement drew an angry response from the armed groups. by Asaf Gabor 11th of Tishrei, 5th of September (06/10/2022) ... The governor said in the same interview that he sat down with the armed groups in the city of Nablus several times and will sit down with them to reach agreements and protect them from arrests, but so far the meetings have been of no use. He emphasized that he would not accept any other...

The Democrat former mayor of San Luis, Arizona, who pleaded guilty to ballot abuse, is hoping for leniency in sentencing.Guillermina Fuentes pleaded guilty in June to a single count of ballot abuse and admitted collecting several early voting ballots during the 2020 election, Fox News reported Friday.***“According to prosecutors, Fuentes used her status as a powerful local Democrat operative to run a ballot harvesting scheme that collected ballots from voters in Arizona’s August 2020 primary election,” Breitbart News reported in June.“Prosecutors accused Fuentes of collecting and filling out ballots from voters as part of the scheme. In some cases, prosecutors...

Peek's sister Cona Turner says the family have chosen not to explain what happened to the former Wendy's worker, for fear of distressing him.She is now advocating for her brother and wants answers as to why he was fired without notice.'I'm out here because I need to be his voice for the way he was treated,' Cona Turner, Peek's sister said. 'He don't understand and we can't tell him he was terminated. We have not told him and we won't tell him.'