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Tensions are escalating between Gibraltar, Spain and the U.K. over the future of this key piece of real estate. The U.K. has controlled Gibraltar for 300 years under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht (Daily Mail, July 29, 2013), and as recently as 2002, Gibraltar residents rejected a return to Spanish rule (ibid.).
According to British statistics, by 2016, most babies born in the U.K. will be born “out of wedlock”—typically to homes without fathers (Telegraph, July 10, 2013). This number grew from 11 percent in 1979 to 47.5 percent in 2012.
A year after British Prime Minister Cameron promised to legalize homosexual marriage by 2015, he touted Britain as “the best place to be gay, lesbian or transgender anywhere in Europe” (Telegraph, July 24, 2013).
The European Commission recently decided to refuse funding for Israeli projects in settlements beyond its 1967 borders and to place labels on settlement-made products to enable Europeans to boycott these items (EU Observer, July 16, 2013). However, Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu sees the EU mandates as a threat to national sovereignty: “I will not let anybody...
While areas of the American West are going up in flames, northern India has been inundated with monsoon rains, mudslides and devastating flooding. Over the last few weeks, “Swollen rivers have swept away entire villages” (BBC, July 15, 2013), and more than 5,700 people are presumed dead following flooding in late June when severe weather affected more than 4,000...
“A court in London has sentenced seven members of a Muslim child grooming gang… to at least 95 years in prison for raping, torturing and trafficking British girls as young as 11. The high-profile trial was the latest in a rapidly growing list of grooming cases that are forcing politically correct Britons to confront the previously taboo subject of endemic sexual...
Speaking to politicians in his own party, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated that the euro “will no longer work if the French-German leadership is not ready to exercise, not its right, but its duty to lead the euro” (Libération, July 8, 2013). He warned, “If the euro explodes, Europe will explode, and if Europe explodes, then you cannot maintain...
Bestiality is becoming an emerging issue. In Sweden hundreds of animals are injured each year from sexual attacks (Expressen.se, January 19, 2004). In Germany this practice is increasing, partly due to a loophole in animal protection laws (DailyMail, July 1, 2013).
Mexico’s recent local and state elections have been called “the most violent in recent history” (Huffington Post, July 15, 2013).
Recent chaos in Egypt has left Western leaders at a loss. But, Egypt’s neighbors are using it to gain influence in the region. “Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries to congratulate Egypt after its army ousted President Mohammed Mursi and dissolved the Islamist-made constitution.