Social Issues

A confusing voter registration issue could cost Bernie Sanders potential votes in the upcoming California primaries. The far-right American Independent Party has its name on California ballots and independent voters wishing to vote for the Democratic presidential hopeful might have inadvertently registered with the extremist anti-liberal party. They need to change their registration forms soon otherwise their votes will not be counted. Despite the obscurity of the far-right group, currently 3% of Californians are registered with the American Independent Party (AIP).

The French government has given the go-ahead for Prime Minister Manuel Valls  to use a rarely-invoked article of the constitution to bypass parliament and forcibly implement controversial labour reforms. “Because the country must move forward, the cabinet has authorized me to act on behalf of the government,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls told parliament to loud boos and heckling from someand applause from others. The decision follows weeks of protests against the proposed reforms, which among other changes seeks to make hiring and firing easier for companies.

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Researchers in Sweden have started a clinical trial to assess whether a prostate cancer drug could help prevent or lower the risk of paedophiles committing sexual abuse. The £1,000 a year drug called degarelix was found to have the side effect of reducing sexual arousal by stopping the production of testosterone The drugs trial at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet  will involve 60 patients have sought help for paedophile fantasies, but have not acted on them.

Since the start of the year, a tiny village in central India has seen an unprecedented eighty suicides While locals have blamed blame it on demon spirits, some researchers say that pesticides could be behind widespread depression. In a bizarre combination of financial distress, superstition and clinical depression, Khargone, has reported 381suicides in the past year. The continuing ‘depression’ forced the village to declare a state of emergency in early April.  It was reported that the youngest resident who tried to attempt suicide was just 11 years old.