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UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk earlier this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of "revolutionary suicide," raising concerns from prominent doctors and deepening a public relations crisis that has embroiled the elite medical school. The talk, "Depathologizing Resistance," was delivered on April 2 by two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, under the auspices of the department’s diversity office and UCLA’s Health Ethics Center, according to slides and emails obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The remarks centered on the suicide of Aaron Bushnell, the U.S. serviceman who set himself on fire...

Is there anything Joe Biden can't do?Get a load of what he funded in his latest bloated budget spending bill passed last week, according to Breitbart News, which opened the hood of that jalopy:Slipped into a $1.2 trillion budget signed by Biden last weekend is about $380 million for “enhanced border security” projects in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and Tunisia — about $150 million of which must go to border security in Jordan.Meanwhile, the budget puts strict limitations on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border to deter illegal immigration.“The Biden administration...

The casting of award-winning actor Denzel Washington as the legendary ancient general Hannibal Barca in an upcoming Netflix project has reportedly outraged Tunisians who argue it is racial recasting that erases their history. Netflix touted the film in a press release, about "the Carthaginian general who famously led an army of warriors and elephants across the Alps to fight the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War." Hannibal’s home region of Carthage is now within Tunisia, the northernmost state in Africa and considered to be part of the Arabic world. According to an English translation of French-language Tunisian news outlet...

PERRY, N.Y. — Federal officials say a man from Tunisia is now awaiting a deportation hearing after allegedly attempting to take possession of a child in Wyoming County. On December 2, the Perry Police Department arrested Monji Jelassi, 64, after a woman complained that Jelassi asked to purchase her 5-year-old child. According to U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), the woman said Jelassi then tried to entice the child into his vehicle. At the time Jelassi was arrested, the only identification he had was a foreign-issued international driver’s license. When his identity was confirmed by U.S. Border Patrol agents four...

JUST IN: Chaos erupts at the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon after a rocket killed hundreds of people at a hospital in Gaza.The Israeli Defense Force denies launching the rocket while others are blaming them.Tear gas was fired at hundreds of protesters who gathered… pic.twitter.com/SEj1OH9xGA— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 17, 2023

A New York state judge imposing a gag order on President Trump... At least 21 are dead following what is being called an apocalyptic bus crash near Venice, Italy... Two US Army soldiers killed, 12 others hurt in the crash of a military vehicle on a dirt road in Alaska... In Canada Liberal MP Greg Fergus selected as the new Speaker of the House of Commons... Removal Of Kevin McCarthy As US House Speaker... In Spain King Felipe asking Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of the Socialists to form... The slide of the peso in Argentina it fell to a...

Welcome to the wee little bit of Italian rock – only 7 miles long – between Tunisia and Sicily known as “Lampedusa.”On the island of Lampedusa in #Italy, more than 10,000 illegal immigrants have arrived by boat from Africa, outnumbering its population of only 6,000.pic.twitter.com/GaGHah8ahY— THE GLOBAL NEWS. (@THE_GLOBE_N) September 23, 2023AdvertisementPope Francis, who has yet to open even St Peter’s Square to help share the burden he recently urged to rest of Europe to keep sucking up, hasn’t made many friends in Italy with his one way exhortations to welcome the hordes.From Libya to Lampedusa. Pope Francis says that...

In the Ukraine War tonight an attack by Ukraine on the port city of Sevastopol...Russian attacks in Ukraine tonight with explosions reported... The Democrat US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will lead a bipartisan delegation of Senators to China, Japan and South Korea... The French government says that an elected official responsible for French citizens in foreign countries is under arrest in Niger... In Memphis the US Justice Department targeting five former police officers with civil rights charges. They stem from the death of Tyre Nichols... In the European Parliament criticism aimed at the migration deal announced in July between...

Undocumented sub-Saharan African migrants in Tunisia received three billion dinars (about $1 billion) in remittances from their countries during the first half of 2023, an official from the national security council said in a meeting late on Friday. President Kais Saied, who chaired the meeting, said, "This figure is shocking and indicates that Tunisia is being targeted." Saied denounced this year undocumented sub-Saharan African immigration to his country, saying in comments criticised by rights groups that it was aimed at changing Tunisia's demographic make-up.The amount of the announced transfers for undocumented migrants is higher than revenues of the vital tourism...

Conflicting charges from the US and Russia about what's going on in the skies over Syria... A letter from Twitter threatening a lawsuit against competitor Meta over the newly launched "Threads" social media app... Authorities in Tunisia forcibly removing migrants from the port city of Sfax... Tonight in Israel the opponents of judicial reform protesting outside the homes of government ministers and blocking roads... An Israeli soldier killed in a terrorist attack in Samaria today... Dutch authorities arresting a man and his wife from Central Asia on terrorism charges... Pushing for Sweden to be accepted into NATO membership Secretary General...

A growing number of countries are coming forward to join BRICS and accept the new currency for global trade. The South African ambassador Anil Sooklal hinted that the alliance could expand this year becoming BRICS+. The move could add pressure on the U.S. dollar as developing nations would end their reliance on the greenback. The global financial order could tilt from the West to the East creating a new multipolar economy. According to the latest report, the BRICS alliance has formally received applications from 25 countries to join the bloc. The 25 nations that expressed their interest to join are...

Crucial science topics will no longer be taught to a large swath of Indian students, according to new government guidance. Most young learners in India will no longer be exposed to key science topics in school textbooks — unless they voluntarily major in science in higher classes. On June 1, India cut a slew of foundational topics from tenth grade textbooks, including the periodic table of elements, Darwin's theory of evolution, the Pythagorean theorem, sources of energy, sustainable management of natural resources and contribution of agriculture to the national economy, among others. A small section explaining Michael Faraday’s contributions to...

The discovery has revealed the Roman city of Neapolis, with its networks of submerged streets and monuments, was a crucial trading hub in ancient north Africa.The fourth century tsunami that partly destroyed Neapolis was well recorded at the time. It struck in Alexandria, one of the great seats of learning in the ancient world as well as the Greek Island of Crete...The further recovery of Roman food products, including roughly 100 tanks of fermented fish that was used as a condiment known as garum in the Roman empire, has told the archaeological team more about Neapolis's history...The Tunisian and Italian...

Tunisian President Kais Saied has claimed that last week’s attack near a synagogue in Djerba, in which two Jews and three police officers were killed, was not antisemitic, JPost reports. Saeid made the comments on Saturday, according to the report. According to the Tunisian newspaper La Presse, Saied spoke during his visit to the Ariana district near the capital. A video of the visit and the president's statements was published by Saied's office as well. According to La Presse, Saied said that "here, in this place where I stand now, Tunisian Jews fleeing the Nazi forces who had pitched their...

The Tunisian government's declaration of its intent to deport all black immigrants has prompted controversy. News outlets have rushed to asked average citizens their view on the matter.Here is what this senior tunisian gentleman had to say. pic.twitter.com/xW4kjcpODh— Hanni🏴 (@HanniPunished) February 23, 2023 -Their values are African and not Tunisian. - What do you mean by values? - What? -What do you mean by values? - Their values are not compatible with those of the Arabian Maghreb. They have their own values. -Have you met any of them? -Excuse me? Have I met them? -Have you met them? - My...

Hundreds protested in Tunisia Saturday against President Kais Saied ahead of parliamentary elections that represent the latest consolidation of a power grab he began in July last year. The protests were organised by political parties that have been marginalised by Saied -- first by him firing the government and suspending parliament last year, then by a new constitution. "Freedoms, freedoms -- the police state is finished!" protesters shouted. Demonstrators marched in central Tunis holding aloft banners with the words "resign" and others complaining that people have become "poorer and hungrier", AFP correspondents saw.

Spicy harissa paste from Tunisia, Morocco's Raï music, and Kalela dance from Zambia were selected to join United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO's) intangible cultural heritage list. The agency met in the Moroccan capital Rabat, to examine proposals for its List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which aims to protect cultural traditions, practices, and knowledge. There was no debate over whether to include Tunisia's harissa - a paste made with sun-dried hot peppers, spices and olive oil, found in almost every restaurant in Tunisia and exported worldwide. The debates were longer for Kalela, a traditional dance that originated during...

An unprecedented rise in food and energy costs compounded by the climate crisis is resulting in a perfect storm for civil unrest in more than 100 countries, according to newly released analysis. Popular anger at cost-of-living crises has seen the Sri Lankan government toppled, protests in Argentina and rising discontent in Europe. The report, produced by risk analysis firm Verisk Maplecroft, warns that political turmoil in the next 12 months is set to increase, with over 80 percent of countries experiencing inflation above six percent and the prospect of repressive measures being used to quell dissent likely. Countries in the...

Explanation: Does the Earth ever pass through a wind of meteors? Yes, and they are frequently visible as meteor showers. Almost all meteors are sand-sized debris that escaped from a Sun-orbiting comet or asteroid, debris that continues in an elongated orbit around the Sun. Circling the same Sun, our Earth can move through an orbiting debris stream, where it can appear, over time, as a meteor wind. The meteors that light up in Earth's atmosphere, however, are usually destroyed. Their streaks, though, can all be traced back to a single point on the sky called the radiant. The featured image...

Monday’s vote came a year to the day after the president sacked the government and suspended parliament in a dramatic blow to the only democracy to have emerged from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings. For some Tunisians, his moves sparked fears of a return to autocracy, but they were welcomed by others, fed up with high inflation and unemployment, political corruption and a system they felt had brought few improvements. His opponents say the moves aimed to install an autocracy more than a decade after the fall of dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but his supporters say they were...