- Reuters
Italy passes contested plan to 'support motherhood' in abortion clinics
Italy's Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a contested government plan to allow groups who "support motherhood" into abortion clinics to try to deter women terminating pregnancies. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy party attached the proposal in an amendment to a bill on Rome's post-COVID-19 recovery plan, which includes a chapter dedicated to the health sector. Meloni is staunchly anti-abortion, but pledged during her victorious general election campaign in 2022 that despite her personal convictions she would not change existing legislation on the subject.
- The Gaston Gazette
Gastonia, Shelby top performers: Forestview softball's Blair Riley earns five hits
Top performers from the ninth week of high school spring sports in Gaston, Cleveland and Lincoln counties, headlined by baseball and softball.
- The Telegraph
Britain’s Jews fear for their lives because Sir Mark Rowley is a weak coward
You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. Recently, I was invited to sit in on a Zoom debate with members of the National Jewish Assembly (NJA). The motion was: “This Assembly believes that the Jewish community has a long-term future in the UK.” NJA chairman Gary Mond called first one speaker then another. Some of them were elderly and not familiar with the technology (“You’re on mute, Alan. Unmute!”). Most of them had lived in Britain their whole lives; a few had distant memories of fleein
