More than 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children are currently in custody at the US’ southern border with Mexico, with more than 5,000 held in temporary Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facilities deemed“unacceptable and inhumane,” in the words of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Border crossings almost tripled in February compared to one …
Read More »Children’s safety comes first: Israeli court defends right of school to bar unvaccinated, untested staff
When one person’s right to privacy and autonomy is placed on the scales opposite the well-being of students, teachers and parents, the balance “tips clearly” in favor of the latter, a Tel Aviv Labor Court judge ruled on Sunday. The court supported the decision by the local council in the …
Read More »Migrant children held in US custody soar to 14,000 as Biden press secretary accidentally acknowledges border ‘crisis’
The official said the number of youths detained after attempting to cross the border had soared to 14,000 during a Thursday press briefing, noting that they are divided between facilities run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Border Patrol. While the official argued that …
Read More »Strikingly-high Covid-19 mortality rate reported in Spanish children could have been centenarians ‘misreported as kids’
The figures published by the respected British medical journal on Wednesday last week came as quite a shock to some Spanish medics. In a group of seven developed nations, their country was by far the worst in terms of the per-capita number of children killed by Covid-19, the data indicated. …
Read More »Children in UNICORN costumes ‘rob’ jewelry store in Russia (VIDEO)
The incident was first reported by the store’s owner on social media. Two children clad in unicorn suits invaded the shop in a mall in the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk early on Saturday. Grainy surveillance footage shared by the owner shows the duo raiding the shop, smashing display cases with a …
Read More »700+ children remain in detention at US border, 200 for over 48 hours, amid spike in unaccompanied crossings – media
Around 700 minors who crossed into the US on their own were kept in Border Patrol Custody as of Sunday, Axios reported on Wednesday, citing an internal Customs and Border Protection document. By that time, around 200 children had already been held up for over 48 hours, and in the …
Read More »‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday. “Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s prefect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move. Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, …
Read More »NHS doctors transplant hearts in children using re-animated organs in world first
Surgeons at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire revived stopped hearts and used them successfully in multiple, pioneering transplant operations by employing a heart-in-a-box machine designed to replicate the conditions inside the human body. So far, a total of six patients, aged between 12 and 16, have benefitted from the …
Read More »Khabib laments current generation in Dagestan but says children can learn for future after killing of former village chief
The UFC lightweight champion recently took to social media to quote a war poem and call for societal change after the killing of Abakar Kaplanov, the former head of the Dagestani village of Novokuli. Kaplanov was killed over a reported land dispute as part of an initial incident that led to …
Read More »Khabib laments current generation in Dagestan but says children can learn for future after killing of former village chief
The UFC lightweight champion recently took to social media to quote a war poem and call for societal change after the killing of Abakar Kaplanov, the former head of the Dagestani village of Novokuli. Kaplanov was killed over a reported land dispute as part of an initial incident that led to …
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