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Security guard found guilty of Brighton cat killingsSteve Bouquet, 54 convicted of killing nine cats, injuring seven and possessing a knife
Covid: Stay away from your pet if you have coronavirus amid fears they could pass it on to other humans, experts warnThose with Covid-19 should avoid contact with their cat or dog while infected amid fears they could pass coronavirus on to other humans, experts say.Scientists in the Netherlands say that although cases of owners passing on the respiratory disease to their pets are not a major risk to public health, they say that pets could hold the virus and therefore reintroduce it to humans.
‘A seismic result’: European Commission set to ban all cages for farmed animalsThe European Commission has unveiled plans to ban all cages for farmed animals within six years, in decision hailed as historic.The UK government, which claims Britain’s animal welfare standards are the highest in the world, is now being urged to follow suit.The EU ban, which follows many years of campaigning by activists, will benefit more than 300 million hens, mother pigs, calves, rabbits, ducks, geese and other farmed animals every year.
Greece-Born Adoptees Seek JusticeIn the turbulent Cold War decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s, over 3,200 Greek-born adoptees grew up in America, while another 600 were sent to the Netherlands. Their adoptions, while given the coating of legality by the Greek courts, were mired in scandal and greed, and they were, at the very least, irregular — while some were even illegal.Orphanage directors, lawyers, doctors, nurses and even some priests were involved in sending these children abroad in this days, and unscrupulous middlemen filled their pockets as they dispatched these children with minimal documentation and little hope of ever finding their way back to their homeland.