Europe
The EU doesn’t have a 30% tariff on African cocoa imports
The vast majority of African countries can export cocoa to the EU tariff-free. Read
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Sadiq Khan was a solicitor for the Nation of Islam
He represented the group back when he was a human rights lawyer. Read
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How many emergency patients are waiting over four hours for a bed?
There was more than a 7x increase in the number of emergency admissions taking more than four hours from decision to admit to admission from 2010 to 2018. Read
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We can’t be sure how many migrants registered with GPs in the last decade
There were 6.5 million new GP registrations in England and Wales from 2007 to 2017 where the person’s previous address was abroad. But we can’t be certain about these figures. Read
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The meme you’ve seen about Instagram privacy settings is not true
Several celebrities have reposted the incorrect image, which has no truth to it. Read
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Hundreds of birds were found dead in the Netherlands but it had nothing to do with 5G
Almost 300 starlings were found dead in a park in The Hague but no 5G tests were going on at the time. Read
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Europe
Did “our boys” change the handball rule?
Ian Holloway was wrong to suggest that non-British organisations had changed the VAR and handball rules against the will of British football organisations. Read
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This picture of women ‘dressing up like 9/11’ was taken in the UK, not Israel
The students wore the outfits to a nightclub in Chester in 2013, and it had nothing to do with Purim. Read
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Health
Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles
The World Health Organisation says ‘eliminating measles’ means the number of cases in a country is at a level where it can’t circulate easily. Read
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Europe
The government has not just “set in stone” the repeal of the European Communities Act
The government has put into force part of the EU Withdrawal Act, which will repeal the European Communities Act on Brexit day. But parliament still has the means to stop this if it wishes. Read
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