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offsite link The Rise of the Name Muhammad Across Europe Sat Aug 23, 2025 13:21 | Richard Eldred
Across Europe, baby boys named Muhammad and its variants have shot up by as much as 700% since 2000, thanks to growing Muslim communities and mass immigration.
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offsite link British Paralympians Turn Backs During Israeli National Anthem Sat Aug 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
Sanctions are being demanded after Britain's wheelchair basketball team turned their backs on Israel's anthem in a gesture slammed as "deeply disrespectful" and an attack on sporting dignity.
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offsite link Reform UK Will Pledge Five Deportation Flights a Day Sat Aug 23, 2025 09:00 | Richard Eldred
Nigel Farage has unveiled his full plan to mass deport asylum seekers arriving on small boats, including housing them at RAF bases, scrapping the ECHR and sending them to third countries.
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offsite link Britain?s Quixotic Carbon Capture Crusade Sat Aug 23, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Ed Miliband's throwing billions at carbon capture, but as the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor points out, it's a quixotic crusade for tech that's flopped everywhere else.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Aug 23, 2025 00:38 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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President Signs Disaster Aid Package with Billions in Relief For Puerto Rico, US States and Territories

category international | politics / elections | news report author Thursday June 06, 2019 21:31author by Kate Zeller - Jubilee USA Network Report this post to the editors

President Trump signed a disaster relief bill Thursday that will provide of $1 billion in aid to hurricane ravaged Puerto Rico.

Washington DC - Aboard Airforce One on Thursday, President Trump signed into law a $19.1 billion disaster relief package to aid Americans recovering from flooding, wildfires, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

"Millions of Americans are suffering from natural disasters and this relief package is urgently needed,” said Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of the religious development group Jubilee USA. “For the last 8 months, we worked hard to secure disaster food assistance for Puerto Rico. Now that emergency relief will be delivered.”

The package includes more than $900 million in emergency food and housing assistance for more than a million people living in Puerto Rico.

"Today we celebrate the bipartisan efforts of Republicans and Democrats who reached across the aisle to deliver relief for Americans living in Puerto Rico and States across our country," noted LeCompte.

Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of more than 75 US organizations and 700 faith communities working with 50 Jubilee global partners. Jubilee USA builds an economy that serves, protects and promotes the participation of the most vulnerable. Jubilee USA wins critical global financial reforms and won more than $130 billion in debt relief to benefit the world's poorest people. www.jubileeusa.org

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