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The chocolate bar has been urgently recalled (Picture: Reuters)

A popular chocolate has been urgently recalled over safety fears.

The Honeycomb Blast Choc Bar from Buttermilk Confections, which specialises in dairy-free products, may contain milk.

It markets itself as a safe plant-based alternative to most chocolate bars, with ‘no dairy, no gluten and no palm oil’ written on their…

A cupboard staple has been urgently recalled (Picture: Getty Images)

A popular onion chutney has been recalled because it may contain pieces of metal.

Fox’s Burton’s Companies (FBC) UK is urgently warning customers not to eat Arran Fine Foods Caramelised Red Onion Chutney.

The company says the product may contain pieces of metal making it unsafe to eat.

Those who have already purchased the…

A banking boom is unlikely in Antarctica, but there doesn’t need to be one. What matters is the ability of a people to participate in their micro-economies unsevered from civilization. If the coldest edges of Earth don’t freeze out customers, neither should our financial institutions.

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I’ve been on vacation in France this past week, traveling with my son’s school choir as they performed at various churches. I’ve also tried to take a break from the news, so this State of Faith newsletter edition is a bit shorter and is inspired by what I…

Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.

Members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) protest on the PA-50 highway on the eve of the twenty-seventh anniversary of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre on April 16, 2023. (Nelson Almeida / AFP via Getty…

Winston Churchill titled the fourth volume of his history of the Second World War The Hinge of Fate because it covered a time period in 1942-43 when events and decisions created a turning point in the war. Looking back 80 years ago, it is arguable that 1946 was the hinge of fate for the post-World War II world. Events and decisions of that year set the course for the Cold War and, ultimately, the…

We don’t have an effective, mass antiwar movement to push back against Donald Trump’s war on Iran. We need one immediately.

The US war on Iran is the most unpopular a US war in history. (Fatemeh Bahrami / Anadolu via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s war on Iran is very unpopular. As pollster G. Elliot Morris notes, it is the most unpopular a US war has ever been when it started. And…

After a militant 1970 hospital takeover birthed a pioneering detox program in the South Bronx, New York City is now studying what it dismantled, and what redress requires amid an ongoing overdose crisis.

Gloria Cruz (left) and Jack (no last name given) talk with newsmen on July 14, 1970, about why the Young Lords took over the old nurses' residence at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.…

The 2006 “Day Without an Immigrant” mobilized millions and killed a draconian anti-immigrant bill. With ICE waging war on immigrant communities, the playbook for a mass strike already exists — we just have to study it.

In 2006, hundreds of thousands of US immigrants staged a one-day nationwide strike and boycott of schools and businesses. (Jim Watson and Saul McSween / AFP via Getty…