Former Olympic medal winner Sharron Davies has hit out at transgender athletes competing in women’s sports after an image of trans athlete Cece Telfer participating in a women’s hurdles race was posted online.
Telfer, who previously competed as a man, became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) title back in 2019 and was running in the Women’s Invitational 60m hurdles in Boston in February.
She had qualified for the final of the event,
Gigi Hadid has broken her silence on Hamas’ attacks on Israel which left at least 1,400 Israelis and Palestinians dead.
The supermodel, 28, whose father Mohamed, 74, is of Palestinian origin, took to Instagram to share a post condemning the ‘terrorizing of innocent people’ under the Free Palestine movement’ and sending love and support to her Palestinian and Jewish friends.
Israel launched retaliatory strikes against Hamas after the militant group launched a series of attacks on Saturday which killed more
The fourth day of the United Nations General Assembly meeting kicked off in New York City on Friday, with leaders from countries all over the world speaking about pressing issues, such as climate change and global conflict.
More than 100 world leaders spoke during the first three days of speeches.
So far the main topics addressed, with climate change, Russia’s war in Ukraine and economic inflation, being the most pressing issues discussed.
Here are some highlights of the leaders who
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve level has fallen to its lowest level since August 1983, while China has taken steps to expand its own reserves.
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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron denounced “new imperialism” in the Indo-Pacific on Thursday as he pledged France would boost its presence in the region to defend the sovereignty of smaller states.
“In the Indo-Pacific, and particularly in Oceania, a new imperialism is appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the sovereignty of several states, the smallest, often the most fragile,” Macron said in a speech in Vanuatu. The French president is on a five-day visit to the South
The White House denounced Fox News this week over comments by one of its hosts, Greg Gutfeld, that some Jews “had to be useful” as a means for survival in Nazi concentration camps, calling his remarks “an obscenity.”
Mr. Gutfeld, who took over the 10 p.m. time slot last week as part of a reshuffling of programming at Fox, made the comments during a debate on “The Five” about Florida’s new African American history curriculum. New instructions for
The EU’s foreign policy chief Josef Borrell on Wednesday condemned recent Quran burnings in Denmark and Sweden.
Burning the Islamic holy book “is offensive, disrespectful and a clear provocation,” Borrell said in a statement. Diversity and tolerance for religious communities are key values of the EU and “expressions of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance have no place” here, the top diplomat added.
On Tuesday, a Quran was burned during far-right anti-Islam demonstrations in front of the Egyptian and Turkish embassies
British author JK Rowling has condemned the ‘horrifying’ attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life in upstate New York after The Satanic Verses novellist was stabbed multiple times by a suspected knifeman with alleged sympathies to Iran’s theocratic regime.
Reacting to the shocking attack last night, the Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner – who has been pilloried in public by trans activists ever since she objected to the term ‘people who menstruate’ – tweeted: ‘Horrifying news. Feeling very sick
Volodymyr Zelensky has compared Russia to ISIS for their ‘war crimes’ in Bucha during a fiery speech to the Security Council today as he slammed the UN body for failing to protect Ukraine.
The president said atrocities have been carried out throughout the country, with women raped and killed in front of their families, and people captured and deported to Russia and turned into ‘slaves’ in his blistering address.
He called out the Security Council for failing to provide any
Moscow was accused of genocide last night after retreating Russian forces left behind horrific evidence of rapes, civilian executions and mass graves.
The barbarity of Vladimir Putin’s soldiers was compared to the atrocities of the Nazis and Stalin’s Great Terror as the horrors of Second World War returned to Europe.
Ukrainian prosecutors said they had found 410 bodies in towns near the capital Kyiv. They said some witnesses were too traumatised to speak.
Two mass graves were discovered in Bucha,
