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A unique insight into the hidden world of modern slavery in the UK, seen through the eyes of people trapped in forced labour and the investigators who are trying to tackle this criminal industry. Transcript link below video.

To soundtrack of xylophones and drums, Africans debate limits of inculturationAs some traditional communities in Africa are lodging complaints against Christian missionaries of desecration and destruction of their cultures, Catholic leaders find themselves struggling to balance accommodation of local customs and practices against protecting the integrity of the faith.One front in the mounting tension is Cameroon, where traditional communities have petitioned the Vatican against what they allege is cultural insensitivity and abuses by the Church.On July 19, the Wimbum people of Cameroon’s North West region petitioned the Dicastery for the Defense of the Faith, complaining that the Catholic Church, in...

A New Hampshire man set to go to space will now have to wait until at least Friday.The SpaceX Polaris Dawn, to be piloted by Scott Poteet, was delayed last week, and unfavorable weather conditions led to those delays.The company had originally received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to launch early Wednesday morning, with a backup date of Thursday morning, but according to the FAA, the launch will now wait until early Friday morning.

Over the past 10 to 15 years, the South China Sea (SCS) has emerged as an arena of strategic competition between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC, or China). China’s actions in the SCS—including extensive island-building and base-construction activities at sites that it occupies in the Spratly Islands, as well as actions by its maritime forces to assert China’s claims against competing claims by regional neighbors such as the Philippines and Vietnam—have heightened concerns among U.S. observers that China is gaining effective control of the SCS, an area of strategic, political, and economic importance to the...

A Hamas fanatic declared during Monday’s anti-Israel protest in Manhattan that American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, “deserved” to be murdered by the terrorist group in a shocking video that pro-Israel influencer Lizzy Savetsky captured. On Saturday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers found Goldberg-Polin’s body in Gaza after nearly a year of being Hamas’s hostage. The viral Instagram video, which amassed more than 30,000 likes and 5,000 comments in less than 24 hours, shows who appears to be Savetsky’s husband, Dr. Ira Savetsky, confronting the unidentified man in his vehicle.

NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Approximately 25 percent of sailors in the surface fleet have bought into the “Get Real Get Better” principles two years after the Navy issued its push to improve culture in the service, according to surface fleet leaders.The rest know little about it, according to a survey of about 1,000 sailors that a San Diego-based command conducted among ship crews on the waterfront to gauge what they knew about the Navy’s initiative.“We’ve got a lot of work to do to really drive this down to the deck plate and have it be truly a part...

The Kiev regime saw a surprise reshuffle of senior officials on Tuesday evening, with one senior member of the government sacked and at least five others quitting. The resignations include: ◻️ Minister of Justice Denys Maliuska ◻️ Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna ◻️ Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin ◻️ Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets ◻️ Vitaly Koval, the head of the State Property Fund. ◻️ Meanwhile, Rostyslav Shurma was dismissed from his post as the deputy head of Zelensky’s office. But that’s not all. ◻️ David Arakhamia, head...

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A resupply mission to the Philippine Coast Guard’s flagship stationed at a contested South China Sea feature was blocked by 40 Chinese vessels in the latest incident around Escoda Shoal, according to Manila.Two Philippine Coast Guard 44-meter-long patrol boats, BRP Cabra (MRRV-4409) and BRP Cape Engaño (MRRV-4411), approached Escoda to resupply agency flagship BRP Teresa Magbanua (MRRV-9701) on Monday morning. The vessels carried food, supplies, a contingent of journalists and a “special ice cream treat” from Commandant Adm. Ronnie Gil Gavan for Teresa Magbanua’s crew to celebrate National Heroes’ Day. Stationed at Escoda since April, the Japanese-made multi-mission response vessel...

Military Sealift Command has drafted a plan to remove the crews from 17 Navy support ships due to a lack of qualified mariners to operate the vessels across the Navy, USNI News learned.The MSC “force generation reset” identified two Lewis and Clark replenishment ships, one fleet oiler, a dozen Spearhead-class Expeditionary Fast Transports (EPF) and two forward-deployed Navy expeditionary sea bases that would enter an “extended maintenance” period and have their crews retasked to other ships in the fleet, three people familiar with the plan told USNI News Thursday.Based on the crew requirements on the platforms, sideling all the ships...

Vice President Kamala Harris used a joint campaign appearance with President Joe Biden in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania on Monday to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned — concurring with the White House’s monthslong opposition to the company’s planned sale to Japan’s Nippon Steel. Her comments came during a rally before cheering union members marking Labor Day in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, where Harris said U.S. Steel was “an historic American company and it is vital for our country to maintain strong American steel companies.” “U.S. Steel should remain American-owned and American-operated, and I will...

China’s military modernization effort, including its naval modernization effort, is the top focus of U.S. defense planning and budgeting. China’s naval modernization effort has been underway for about 30 years, since the early to mid-1990s, and has transformed China’s navy into a much more modern and capable force. China’s navy is a formidable military force within China’s near-seas region, and it is conducting a growing number of operations in the broader waters of the Western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, and waters around Europe.China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and...

Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A red pepper spill on a California highway turned into a "bee-mergency" situation after a signpost struck by the truck carrying the produce was found to contain a massive hive. The California Highway Patrol's Santa Maria responded alongside the Santa Maria Fire Department when a semi truck pulling a flatbed trailer overturned on Highway 101 Wednesday morning and spilled its load of red peppers across lanes of traffic. Crews working to remove the wreckage and clean up the crushed red peppers discovered a sign pole that had been struck and damaged by the truck contained thousands...

It's a new, tragic and little-known phenomenon in the UK: migration back to the continent. Some migrants who crossed the Channel illegally, making dangerous crossings in small boats are now trying to cross the sea in the other direction, desperate to leave a country where their asylum applications are pending, and they are stuck in legal limbo.

Vice President Kamala Harris has been torched online for her new “accent” at her Labor Day rally in Detroit, Michigan. Harris was in the Motor City hoping to shore up blue-collar union workers in the critical battleground state that she wants to keep blue in the November election. “You better thank a union member for the five-day work week,” Harris told the crowd with a notably different accent. “You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.” Watch VIDEO AT LINK................. X...

Olympic distance runner Rebecca Cheptegei was set on fire by her boyfriend Sunday, according to police. Cheptegei, who competed for Uganda in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was doused in gasoline and set on fire by her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, at their home in Kenya after an argument over property, according to the BBC. She suffered burns to more than 75% of her body, local police chief Jeremiah ole Kosiom told reporters. Neighbors rescued her and took her to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, according to the Ugandan Athletics Federation. “The couple were heard quarreling outside their house. During...

A Venezuelan court granted an arrest warrant Monday for opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who claims to have rightfully won July elections that authorities awarded to incumbent Nicolas Maduro.The court, the prosecutor's office said on Instagram, had granted its request for a warrant for Gonzalez Urrutia for "serious crimes."The office had earlier published its request to the court on social media, in which it listed the alleged crimes that stem from the opposition's insistence that Maduro and his allies stole the July 28 presidential vote.

Police in Louisiana arrested a 10-year-old boy who allegedly confessed to fatally shooting a former mayor and his daughter, NBC News reported Tuesday. Shreveport Police Chief Jared McIver said officers found Joe Cornelius Sr., 82, and Keisha Miles, 31, dead Sunday morning after arriving at the former mayor’s home in Minden, a city of nearly 12,000 people east of Shreveport, according to NBC. McIver said the victims’ bodies were riddled with gunshot wounds from two handguns that were found with empty magazines, NBC reported. “Our city is in shock,” McIver said. “How does a 10-year-old commit something so malicious?” McIver...

The Soviets were terrified of Ronald Reagan, and rightly so, actor Jon Voight told Newsmax on Monday. Voight played the role of Russian spy Viktor Petrovich in "Reagan," a biopic about the late president, which came out Friday. He and the film's director, Sean McNamara, spoke to "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE" about the making of the movie and the 40th president's legacy. Voight said the spies assigned to keep tabs on Reagan "kept giving reports back that this guy was standing up against communism, saying an awful lot of things that were concerning to them. "And then he became a political...

Establishment Democrats remain concerned about preventing former President Donald Trump from completing the greatest political comeback in modern American history — even after President Joe Biden stepped aside for Vice President Kamala Harris. The concern spotlights Harris’s lack of a post-convention bump and the September 10 presidential debate, which will force Harris to speak about her radical record and how she plans to address the nation’s decline. National and swing state surveys show that Trump and Harris are statistically tied. In polling on specific issues, however, Trump holds a sizable lead, suggesting Harris’s so-called “honeymoon” stage was a sugar high.