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Spain has issued a ban on the painkiller Nolotil, also known as metamizole, from being prescribed to British tourists, according to The Local. A recent inquiry has linked the medicine to the deaths of to ten British tourists in the country. The ten tourists reportedly fell ill with agranulosis, which can result in blood poisoning […]
A host of alternative news pages banned by Facebook last week were first featured on the PropOrNot blacklist in 2016 – a list of “Russian propaganda” sites that was compiled with little evidence and called “McCarthyite.” Facebook banned 800 alternative media pages last week, ranging from left-leaning organizations like The Anti-Media to flag-waving opinion sites […]
A group of supporters were snapped on a bank behind the stadium – and they might just have had the best view in the house. The raised area is in the ideal place and provided the perfect vantage point. Fans were able to get a glimpse of the Three Lions stars as they took on […]
Some 800 anti-establishment accounts and pages have been yanked from Facebook in a sweeping crackdown the social media giant framed as a fight against spammers. RT talked to those who were targeted in the cleansing. Among the hundreds of pages and accounts Facebook and Twitter took down were those both on the political left and […]
Enlarge / Bill shock. (credit: Getty Images | Biddiboo) US Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) today introduced legislation that would require telecom companies to include all charges in their advertised prices, potentially ending the practice of advertising low prices and then socking customers with loads of extra fees. The bill would also force telecom companies to […]
Bali is cracking down on disrespectful behaviour with proposals to ban bikinis around its sacred sites. The popular holiday destination has had enough of skimpily clad western tourists posing for photos and climbing over holy monuments. Locals believe that the quality of tourists has declined as more visitors come to the island. Authorities are now […]
New 2018 ’68’ number plates were introduced on September 1st. Every time new plates are introduced there is a list of numerical and letter combinations that are immediately banned. DVLA guidelines dictate that any plates that ‘may cause offence’ will be removed before they end circulation. One of the plates to be banned in the […]
Brandon Straka, the former Democrat who founded the #WalkAway campaign was banned from Facebook ahead of a protest in Washington DC. “They’re trying to sabotage the march on Washington,” he told RT. Straka was banned from the social network on Wednesday, for attempting to promote an interview on Infowars.com, the conspiracy-heavy news and opinion site […]
The Australian government is preparing to ban whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning because she does not meet the country’s “character requirement.” The former soldier spent seven years in prison for releasing a trove of classified military documents to Wikileaks. Manning had previously been denied entry to Canada in 2017 because of her criminal record. The […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Apple has banned a security app made by Facebook that monitored what apps users were using then sent the data to the social network. Apple determined at Onavo Protect violated its new rules on data collection, and it has now been removed from the App Store. It’s still available on Google’s Android, […]
