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  Aug 15, 2021  
     
 

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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.

 
     
  MP challenges PSNI not to start judging free speech after arrest of preacher  
     
  North Antrim MP Sammy Wilson has likened the PSNI arrest of a gospel preacher in Larne this week to the suppression of free speech in China - and challenged the service not to set itself up as a judge of non-criminal free speech.  
     
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The government’s Troubles amnesty plan is a risk to reconciliation, says Labour Party’s Louise Haigh
 
Government plans to ban future Troubles prosecutions risks undermining reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Labour has warned.
 
     
 
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Patients with ‘notions’ about coronavirus and vaccnes ‘emotional’ and ‘sorry’ in intensive care, says Belfast critical care nurse
 
Patients with preconcieved “notions” about cororonavirus, vaccinations or even doubts about the very existence of the virus itself have been “very emotional” after finding themselves in need of hospital care for the disease, a critical care nurse consultant in Belfast has said.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: The collapse of Kabul to the Taliban will be seen as a sign of western weakness
 
In the 1990s I worked on a breaking news website in London.
 
     
 
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Condemnation of INLA funeral assembly in dedicated mixed housing estate
 
Condemnation has been voiced after mourners in black-and-white uniform took to the streets to honour a republican paramiliary – right in the middle of a specially-built mixed neighbourhood.
 
     
 
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NISHA TANDON: ‘Our political leaders must champion ethnic diversity’
 
Since she arrived in Belfast from New Delhi in 1977, Nisha Tandon OBE has gone on to become one of the foremost champions of multicultural arts in Northern Ireland. Ahead of this year’s Mela Festival, she chats to JOANNE SAVAGE
 
     
 
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‘My country can’t beat the Taliban alone as so many countries are helping it’
 
An Afghan man who now lives in NI fears that the Taliban will take over his entire country and cause widespread poverty and death.
 
     
 
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Jeff Dudgeon: The biased UN seems blind to the scale of human rights abuses by terrorists
 
On Wednesday the News Letter reported the following story ‘United Nations joins bodies condemning amnesty plan’ (see link below).
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Exam grade inflation is rooted in sentimentality about education and school pupils
 
A Levels were introduced in the 1950s.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
 
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