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[ 09:25 | 4th November 2009 | Comment! ]

Immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria will be denied open door access to Britain for at least another two years, the Daily Mail reports.
The two countries have been clamouring for the same rights of unrestricted movement given to other Eastern European countries, such as Poland, when they joined the EU, but Home Office have opted to keep in place restrictions on the right of Romanians and Bulgarians to take jobs in the UK until at least …

US Politics »

[ 15:43 | 4th September 2009 | Comment! ]
Obama overturns travel and trade embargo on Cuba

Americans with relatives in Cuba can send them unlimited cash and visit the island as long and often as they would like under new rules that ended a nearly five-decade trade embargo yesterday, Reuters reports.
The rules, made effective immediately by the US Treasury Department, fleshed out an announcement by President Barack Obama in April to ease US trade restrictions imposed on Cuba after Fidel Castro’s communist revolution half a century ago.
Until now, Cuban-Americans had been …

USA »

[ 13:23 | 11th July 2009 | 1 Comment ]

As US President Barack Obama promised the Pope yesterday to try to reduce the number of abortions in the States, a new poll found that 86 per cent of Americans want restrictions to abortions.
According to the poll, 86% of Americans would significantly restrict abortion and 60% would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother, or would not allow it at all, Newsmax reports.
53% of Americans believe abortion …