Scrap ‘barbaric’ pre-Victorian powers to detain rough sleepers, homeless campaign group tells RT

“Dickensian” laws allowing for thousands of homeless and “peaceful” beggars to be removed from the streets and prosecuted should be repealed, an Oxford University campaign group told RT. On Your Doorstep, a homelessness campaign group part of the university’s student union, launched a petition calling for the pre-Victorian Vagrancy Act 1824 to be repealed, as […]

‘Systematically murdered’: Cancer-stricken Brit detained in Dubai describes ‘barbaric’ treatment

A British cancer victim claims he was being “systematically murdered by negligence and medical inexperience” while locked up in a Dubai prison for carrying “too much” of his prescribed medicine. Perry Coppins, 61, was arrested in Dubai in November on the charge of possession and intent to use controlled drugs. He was only released and […]

‘This is barbaric’: Bernie Sanders lambastes GOP healthcare bill

Screenshot/CNN Sen. Bernie Sanders called the Senate Republican healthcare bill, the details of which were released on Thursday, “barbaric” and promised to introduce Medicare-for-all legislation during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Sanders tweeted on Thursday that the bill, which would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare), is “the most harmful piece of legislation […]

No group has claimed credit for the ‘barbaric’ Kabul truck bomb that killed at least 90 people

AP Photo/Rahmat Gul Kabul (AFP) – President Donald Trump has condemned the “barbaric” truck-bombing in Kabul in a phone call with his Afghan counterpart, as global outrage swells over the massive blast that ripped through the diplomatic quarter, killing at least 90 and injuring hundreds. No group has so far claimed the attack, launched from […]

TRUMP: ‘Beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack’

AP President Donald Trump spoke Thursday evening from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after the US Navy targeted a Syrian government airfield with Tomahawk missiles, saying it was in the “national security interest” of the US to take action. “Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical […]