Australia Meets Medal Target at Paralympic Games

Australia have won one gold and two bronze medals at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics reaching their target of three medals with four days of competition remaining.

Simon Patmore won Australia’s first gold since Salt Lake City in 2002 in the snowboard cross becoming the second Australia to win a medal at both the Summer and Winter games following his bronze medal in the  200m T46 sprint at the London 2012 Paralympics.

Duterte Out: Philippines Withdraws from International Criminal Court

President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has withdrawn his nation’s ratification of the Rome statute, which created the International Criminal Court administered by the United Nations.

He accused the International Criminal Court and UN of running a “baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks on my person,” in the wake of a war on drugs which has resulted in an estimated 8,000 extrajudicial killings.

Youth party Kabataan representative Sarah Elago said ,“Only the guilty become too eager to run away from prosecution.”

Britain First banned from Facebook after pressure from European leaders

Facebook has removed the page of British political organisation Britain First, citing violations of it’s hate speech policies.

Britain First used the page to host the false and misleading videos about islamic extremism that were shared by US President Donald Trump and Former Major General of the Australian Army and current senator for New South Wales James Molan.

The organisation’s rhetoric was invoked by the murderer of British MP Jo Cox in 2016.