The political atmosphere in Italy took a tumultuous turn as EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s gloomy forecast regarding the upcoming Italian election sent shockwaves through the Milan stock exchange. Juncker’s cautionary words on the possibility of “ungovernability” in Italy elicited a swift and pointed response from the Liberi e Uguali (LeU) party, urging the EU... 

The Swedes appear to have embarked on an audacious project resembling something from an episode of the sci-fi series Black Mirror; they intend to make fully conscious copies of the dead in a bid to offer digital immortality. A number of Swedish scientists are researching how to produce digital copies of those who have already passed away. Dagen daily has reported they are also planning to set about... 

Gucci unveiled their Fall/Winter 2018-2019 collection at Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday — with fashion models carrying replicas of their severed heads down the runway. The brand released its collection under the “creative direction” of Italian fashion designer Alessandro Michele. “The process of creating the replicas is painstakingly meticulous,” reported Vogue. “It took six months to... 

More and more inhabitants of Portugal’s Terceira Island are suffering from deadly diseases, especially cancer, at rates far out of sync with the rest of the Azores archipelago. Terceira is no different from the other islands, except in one thing. Russia-based video agency RUPTLY has carried out an exclusive investigation into this matter. Lajes Airbase The Lajes Airbase on Terceira Island has... 

After successfully launching the ‘petro,’ Venezuela is now on its way to becoming the world’s first country with two national cryptocurrencies, reports TV news network Globovision. The channel quotes Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, who made the announcement during his meeting with members of the party Patria Para Todos (PPT). The new virtual token, dubbed ‘petro oro’, will be backed... 

Most of Germany’s protests started after the shocking murder of the 15-year-old Mia, by an Afghan refugee. Germans are not planning to stop protesting against Angela Merkel and her migration policy. Several demonstrations have already taken place and the next one will be on 24 February. Most of Germany’s protests started after the shocking murder of the 15-year-old Mia, by an Afghan refugee. The... 

Scientists have created the first human-pig hybrid in a groundbreaking study that marks the first step in growing human organs inside animals. Named chimera, after the cross-species beast in Greek mythology, the pig-human embryos were created in the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California and are the first hybrid made using two large, distantly-related species. “The ultimate... 

Major White activist Jared Taylor and his organization American Renaissance are suing Twitter for permanently suspending their accounts, accusing the social media giant of “the silencing of dissident voices.” The suit, filed Wednesday in California Superior Court’s San Francisco District, alleges that Twitter is engaging in viewpoint discrimination against the site for its racist views, in violation... 

A document drawn up by EU Commission officials has stated that Brexit will increase cancer risks for British workers. These claims have already been criticized by UK ministers. British Brexit Secretary David Davis told business leaders earlier this week in Vienna that Britain won’t have a “Mad-Max” Brexit and will continue cooperation with Brussels as it does not want “to undermine... 

A US-based Jewish group has removed its “Polish Holocaust” YouTube video, which criticized a new Polish law criminalizing suggestions that Poland was complicit in Nazi war crimes, following a backlash from Poles. The prominent Boston-based Jewish-American Ruderman Family Foundation uploaded the video on Wednesday, using the controversial term “Polish Holocaust” to protest what they called... 

Billionaire investor George Soros, who has denounced tech giants Facebook and Google as a “menace” and a threat to public health, is reportedly “examining new ways” to tackle their growing power. A spokesman for his influential ‘Open Society Foundations’ told Axios it provided an $180,000, two-year grant to the Open Markets Institute last fall for work around web platforms. “The Open... 

Politicized winter Olympics a bust for US athletes, TV ratings. It turns out that a U.S. Olympics team filled with social justice warriors isn’t maybe the best model for getting to peak performance in the actual Olympics events or in the TV ratings. NBC’s TV audience for these Olympics games, in fact, are headed to be the lowest ever recorded. As the games wind down to a blessed conclusion this... 

…because there are “too many happy white people.” If this doesn’t make your blood boil it can only mean you’re dead and you don’t know it. The EU jury of the European Capital of Culture contest (EKF 2023), said that one of the participating towns is “too white and there are not enough migrants”, Hungarian news website “888.hu” reports. With only seven semi-finalists... 

Conservative Twitter users across the platform are, metaphorically at least, setting their hair on fire amid claims their accounts were locked in a reported “purge” of right-wing voices. The move, which has yet to be confirmed by Twitter has nonetheless been labelled an attempt at “mass censorship” by critics, is thought to be a bid to rid the platform of automated accounts – or ‘bots’... 

Despite the fact that last year French National Front Marine Le Pen’s plan to pull out of the Eurozone cost her votes in the presidential election, the leader of the Italian Northern League party Matteo Salvini still prefers to play the “no single currency” card, reiterating his opposition to the euro. While many Italians may be looking forward to changes in the country’s economy, ending “austerity,”...