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Major poll shows significant swing to Remain

Remain would win a significant majority if the EU referendum were held again, according to a major new poll from Channel 4 and Survation. Some 54 per cent of people said they would stay in the EU if the 2016 referendum were held tomorrow – when those who refused to vote or answered “don’t know” were removed. Survation interviewed 20,000 people in the biggest ever independent Brexit opinion poll. Analysis showed that 105 council areas that voted Leave in 2016 would...

Borat talks to Donald Trump supporters ahead of midterms in hilarious election spoof

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected Borat to canvass for Donald Trump in a hilarious midterm election spoof on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Borat engaged in conversations with Trump supporters who defended putting immigrants in cages and refuted the "fake news" reports of Trump in the video. “I don’t believe he is and I don’t see any evidence of that,” one man said to which Borat responded: “I am a racist, it is nice", Borat replied. Baron Cohen’s most recent project, Who...

US Midterms: A tale of two chambers

With the final results pouring in the US Midterms look be a tale of two chambers. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, and Republicans held the Senate, results which were celebrated on both sides. At 1:27 am US time Donald Trump posted a quote from conservative economist and actor Ben Stein, who lauded the President as “the magic man". He said: “There’s only been five times in the last 105 years that an...

Hundreds of mass graves with 12,000 victims found in former ISIS territory in Iraq

Hundreds of mass graves with 12,000 victims have been found in a former ISIS territory in Iraq. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on the findings today, detailing evidence of the 202 mass graves they have uncovered. From 2014 to 2017 UNAMI/OHCHR recorded up to 30,000 civilian deaths in Iraq during the conflict with ISIS. Thousands are still not accounted for. Kelsey Zorzi, Director of Advocacy...

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