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<p>Afghanistan’s last known Jew has “had enough” and plans to leave the country this autumn.</p><p>Zabulon Simantov, a carpet and jewelry merchant, lives on the same Kabul compound as Afghanistan’s only synagogue.</p><p>His decision to move to Israel after the High Holy Days this autumn came, he told Arab News, as a result of losing hope for peace in the country. Mr Simantov’s wife and daughters live in Israel.</p>

Beijing - North Korea on Saturday criticized the United States for abusing the country's "right to self-defense," days after President Joe Biden said Pyongyang's latest launch of ballistic missiles violated U.N. Security Council resolutions. "The new U.S. administration obviously took its first step wrong," Ri Pyong Chol, secretary of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, said in a statement carried in English by the state-run Korean Central News Agency. "We cannot but build invincible physical power for reliably defending the security of our state under the present situation in which South Korea and the U.S. constantly...

A Muslim convert has admitted sharing extremist videos on social media while subject to a terrorism notification order. Convicted terrorist Ibrahim Anderson, 44, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on Wednesday to a string of offences committed in the summer and autumn of 2020. The ginger-bearded defendant, from Luton, Bedfordshire, admitted breaching notification requirements by not providing email details that he was using.The ginger bearded extremist was previosly jailed for three years in 2016 for promoting ISIS on Oxford Street in LondonAnderson had also taken photographs of his young children to promote his extremism This image showed Anderson's young...

An HBO Original Series. The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".

Cassio Fontes, PhD, holds up the D4 Assay. Credit: Michaela Kane, Duke University An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus (EBOV) infection. In monkeys infected with Ebola, this diagnostic, called the D4-assay, proved to be 1000 times more sensitive than the currently approved rapid diagnostic test and capable of detecting the virus a full day earlier than the gold standard polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test. This work, which appears in Science Translational Medicine on April 7, was done by biomedical engineers, molecular biologists, and immunologists at Duke...

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A young girl leaves home to marry her lover defying her parents. She’s happy barely for a few minutes before her now-husband reappears in a skullcap and a crisp white kurta-pajama. He takes off her bindi and covers her head with a dupatta. He then teaches what looks like the Quran to a group of people, before he sells off his wife to some people who appear to be terrorists. This isn’t a lazy caricature from an archaic and offensive movie plot, but a video going viral in several Christian WhatsApp groups in Kerala. The video, shared on Facebook by...

'Outnumbered' panel reacts to reports that Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams pressured the MLB commissioner to move the All-Star Game out of the state. Video report at link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/presidenttrump/stacey-abrams-pressured-mlb-to-move-all-star-game-fox-learns/vi-BB1frxD8

"The US government is deeply concerned about the situation that is developing around the borders of Ukraine and in every possible way supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine," US Colonel Brittany Stewart addressing the Ukrainian military.

At the peak of Israel’s Covid vaccination drive, the halls of a huge basketball arena in Jerusalem were filled with people, each anxiously waiting up to two hours until their number was called. More than 3,000 people a day were being vaccinated here in January. On Monday, no more than 15 people lingered around long rows of empty chairs. Some barely had time to sit down before they were called to receive a jab. “They wait about 10 seconds,” said Shani Luvaton, the head nurse at the vaccination centre. She only uses half her booths for just a few hundred...

Anne Beatts, a pioneering comedy writer who helped launch “Saturday Night Live” and created the 1980s cult-favorite sitcom “Square Pegs,” died Wednesday at her home in West Hollywood. She was 74. Beatts’ death was confirmed by her longtime friend Rona Edwards. Beatts was a revered figure in comedy circles given her long resume. She and then-writing partner Rosie Shuster were among the very few women to work on “SNL” at the time of its debut in 1975 on NBC. Beatts was also the first female contributing editor to National Lampoon. In the early 1980s, Beatts created the CBS comedy “Square...

April 9, 2021Easter FridayBasilica de Notre Dame, Geneva, SwitzerlandReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White.First readingActs 4:1-12 ©The name of Jesus Christ is the only one by which we can be savedWhile Peter and John were talking to the people the priests came up to them, accompanied by the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees. They were extremely annoyed at their teaching the people the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead by proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus. They arrested them, but as it was already late, they held them till the next day. But many of those who had listened...

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing” (Proverbs 9:10-13).

A former federal official admitted she abused her authority in a publicity stunt that tricked New York City public housing residents into sounding supportive of former President Donald Trump, ethics oversight officials said Tuesday. The admission by Lynne Patton came as part of a civil settlement with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel that bars Patton from holding a federal job for four years and imposes a $1,000 fine. Patton “improperly harnessed the authority of her federal position to assist the Trump campaign in violation of the Hatch Act,” said a statement released by the special counsel office. Patton had...

WASHINGTON D.C.—As states like Georgia move to change voting laws, Democrats are pushing a federal voting law, HR 1, to take over voting in all states and counteract such moves. And as they promote the law, Democrats have a dire warning: If HR 1 isn’t passed, Republicans could sometimes win elections. “If we don’t radically change voting laws,” Senator Chuck Schumer told the press, “we could have horrible outcomes to elections in which Republicans sometimes win. We Democrats, along with journalists, have explained over and over to the American people that Republicans are bad and Democrats are smart and good,...

WHP Facebook Share Icon Twitter Share Icon Email Share Icon When asked what could be behind a surge of COVID-19 cases in young people, White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci pointed to youth sports as a possible factor. "School sports, particularly team sports, which people engage in close contact without masks. I think that's what is explaining these surges of cases in young individuals." Fauci said. But representatives of Central PA youth sports leagues pushed back, saying they had seen little to no difference. "I wouldn't be able to give you a good answer if its worse, better...

WHEN INDIA presented Bhutan with a generous gift of covid-19 vaccines in January, the neighbouring kingdom made an unusual choice. Rather than rushing to inoculate all 800,000 of its citizens, the government sought advice from the Zhung Dratshang, a body of Buddhist monks. The stars were not auspicious, they ruled. Better to wait two months, and then to make sure that the first dose be both administered by, and given to, women born in the Year of the Monkey. So Bhutan waited until March 27th before Tshering Zangmo administered the first jab to Ninda Dema. The injection took place at...

Former Jets cornerback Phillip Adams shot and killed five people including a beloved emergency room doctor, his wife and their two grandchildren before turning the gun on himself in South Carolina Thursday, in a horrific spree that his dad blames on his years in the NFL. “I think the football messed him up,” Adams’ father, Alonso Adams, told Charlotte television station WCNC. The ex-player killed Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70; his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, and 9-year-old Adah and 5-year-old Noah Wednesday evening at a home near his parents in Rock Hill, according to police.

In an exceptionally rare move, the Kenosha Police Department on Wednesday issued a public statement stating that a pair of reports from an independent local online news source are “inaccurate.” There have been a large number of inaccurate reports and disinformation regarding the shooting of Jacob Blake and the ensuing protests and riots, as well as the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings. This is the first time, however, is the KPD has publicly said specific reports were inaccurate.

BARRIE, ONT. -- When 12-year-old Alana Bauer found a large amount of money while delivering papers in Orangeville, she knew exactly what she wanted to do with it. The Grand Valley girl saw the money on the sidewalk and tucked it away for safekeeping while continuing on her paper route. When she returned home, she told her mother she wanted to take the money straight to the police station to give the owner the chance to reclaim it. "I just knew it was the right thing to do," she said. Dufferin OPP commended the young girl's integrity and recognized her...