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Harry Potter author JK Rowling questions Police Scotland’s stand over ‘trans women’ raping actual women, gets hatred from trans activists

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2021

Rowling had tweeted sarcastically, "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. The penised individual who raped you is a woman."

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Facebook accepts that its third-party fact checks are nothing but ‘protected opinions’: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 14 December, 2021

Last year, TV journalist John Stossel had published a video on Facebook titled, "Government Fueled Fires' in the aftermath of the 2020 California forest fires. The video was censored by Facebook as 'misleading'.

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Cargo ship capsizes after colliding with another cargo ship in Baltic Sea near Sweden, two missing

OpIndia Staff - 13 December, 2021

Danish cargo vessel Karin Hoej capsizes after colliding UK vessel Scot Carrier in Baltic Sea, two-member crew missing

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France: When politicians and Mayor of a suburb sang the national anthem to protest against street Namaz

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2021

Residents in Gurugram have also been protesting against the practice of blocking public spaces and roads for the Friday namaz.

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Spain: Catholic bishop marries Satanic erotica writer, Church throws him out

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2021

Youngest Bishop of Spain, Xavier Novell Goma who had earlier left the Roman Catholic Church has married an author who writes Satanic Erotica fiction.

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CNN producer who worked closely with Chris Cuomo arrested on allegations of raping minor girls, grooming them to be ‘sexually submissive’

OpIndia Staff - 11 December, 2021

CNN producer John Griffin, of Stamford, Connecticut has been accused of luring a woman and her nine-year-old daughter to his home in Vermont and 'training' her to be sexually submissive.

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