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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes in an election that will extend his rule over a country ruined by war but which opponents and the West say was marked by fraud. Assad’s government says the election on Wednesday shows Syria is functioning normally despite the decade-old conflict, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and driven 11 million people – about half the population – from their homes. Head of parliament Hammouda Sabbagh announced the results at a news conference on Thursday, saying voter turnout was around 78%, with more...

While there are daily conflicting reports about the Vienna talks on re-‎establishing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), such ‎as approaching a new agreement between the United States and Iran, ‎the main question here is: If these negotiations reach a positive result ‎and the two sides reach a new agreement to re-establish JCPOA, ‎even with the addition of any new clauses, can we be sure of the ‎Iranian regime's adherence to this agreement? And will Iran really ‎give up its goal of acquiring an atomic bomb?‎ This is a question that even the most optimistic diplomats who want ‎the...

A New York Times opinion writer wondered in a new op-ed on Wednesday if the progressive cancel culture push will backfire on Democrats at the polls, and he isn't the only analyst asking the question. "Is Wokeness ‘Kryptonite for Democrats?’" Times contributor Thomas Edsall's headline asked. Edsall quoted several surveys finding most people are against the more radical campaigns, such as efforts to defund the police and upend traditional gender norms. And yet, he said, Republicans can still point to the extreme minority that is pushing these ideas to argue that the Democratic Party is increasingly beholden to the radicals....

Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia €1.1bn (£940m) to fund projects among communities affected by the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel’s government says amounts to a gesture of reconciliation but not legally binding reparations. Tens of thousands of men, women and children were shot, tortured or driven into the Kalahari desert to starve by German troops between 1904 and 1908 after the Herero and Nama tribes rebelled against colonial rule in what was then named German South West Africa and is now Namibia. Since 2015, Germany has negotiated with the Namibian...

May 28 , 2021 Friday of the 8th week of Ordinary time; Memorial of bl. Thomas Ford St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Oxford, UK Readings at MassLiturgical Colour: Green First readingEcclesiasticus 44:1,9-13 ©Let us praise illustrious menLet us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations.Some have left no memory, and disappeared as though they had not existed,they are now as though they had never been, and so too, their children after them.But here is a list of generous men whose good works have not been forgotten.In their descendants there remains a rich inheritance born of them.Their descendants stand by...

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DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) - Deputies with the Durham County Sheriff’s Office arrested a woman who was in possession of two kilograms of fentanyl - all while her child was in the vehicle, a news release said. Karen Garcia Euceda, 24, of Winston-Salem was the subject of an ongoing investigation. She was stopped while driving in the area of Club Boulevard and Watts Street in Durham on Tuesday. During a search of her vehicle, deputies said she was in possession of two kilograms of fentanyl. Her 4-year-old daughter was also in the vehicle. The child is now in the custody of...

The US Department of Justice has reportedly launched a probe into this spring’s dramatic implosion of Archegos Capital Management, which slammed some of the world’s biggest banks with more than $10 billion in losses. Federal prosecutors sent requests for information to some of the banks that conducted business with the massive but little-known family office run by disgraced financier Bill Hwang before its epic collapse in March, according to a Bloomberg report. Hwang relied on massive leverage and risky derivatives to take concentrated positions. When the massive bets he’d made on ViacomCBS and Discovery went south, he failed to meet...

You've experienced this Alex, there's this grating, obnoxious insistence on both the left and the right that you have to vehemently support Israel or Palestine.... I refuse to take a side because I refuse to support Israel or Palestine. ...

“He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination” (Proverbs 28:9).

...The boy Rae Carruth once tried to kill has become a young man about to graduate from a Charlotte high school. Chancellor Lee Adams has already tried on his cap and gown to make sure it fits. He has an orange-and-blue shirt and tie to wear underneath the gown and match his school’s colors. He plans to walk across the stage with the other Vance High graduates at 5:30 p.m. June 5 at Charlotte’s Bojangles’ Coliseum, not with the aid of the walker he uses less and less, but instead standing tall and holding onto the arm of his favorite...

Former Illinois Republican congressman Joe Walsh announced Wednesday night that his show on GAB Radio Network had been canceled. In a tweet, Walsh said the network is run by a supporter of Donald Trump who has wanted to oust him for some time. “It’s not a surprise I guess,” Walsh told Mediaite when reached for comment. “The same thing happened to me at Salem Media before my primary challenge to Trump. They let me go as well.”

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Thursday on CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight” that congressional Democrats wanted to investigate former President Donald Trump’s connection to the Capitol riot because Trump to be considered “an absolute pariah in America.” On the Senate voting on the House Capitol riot commission, Raskin said, “Well, they’ve elevated what they think is in their best political interests over what is clearly in the best interest of the country, which is to determine the truth of those events and the cause of those events. But they are too eager to protect Donald Trump and the evidence of his...

I confess that I have always been intrigued and fascinated; even influenced, by the teachings of ‘Zoroaster’, also known as’ Zarathustra’, ‘Zarathushtra Spitama ‘or ‘Ashu Zarathushtra,’ who was an ancient Iranian Prophet. ‘Zarathustra’ literally means ‘golden camel” in Old Iranian, derived from ‘zarat’ denoting “golden”, combined with ‘ushtra’ meaning “camel”, which was considered as a hallowed being. He founded what is now known as ‘Zoroastrianism.’ ‘Zarathustra’ was born in Bactria (or Aria) in modern day Iran (then Persia) around 628 BCE, possibly, in Rhages, (Iran) .He died around about 551BCE. He was the son of a not very prominent Nobleman,...

Video showing an unidentified flying object splashing down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego two years ago appears to have been corroborated by military radar which shows as many as 14 UFOs swarming a Navy combat ship while traveling at speeds of more than 160mph. Earlier this month, investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell released footage showing what appeared to be a spherical object floating in the air above the ocean as it was observed by US Navy sailors aboard the USS Omaha in July 2019. Corbell on Thursday released another video of the same incident, only this...

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This Memorial WeekendQ is the result of the sacrifices and commitment of countless patriots to win back our captured country from the Deep State and achieve the transformation President Trump promised in this campaign video. President Trump has said the awakening of the public is key to this transformation.Q describes this awakening as follows: "The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding 'mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of...

This is what a pandemic prom looks like under New York state guidelines. Forget popular kids and dorks — seniors at one Long Island high school dance will be divided by whether they are vaccinated or unvaccinated against COVID-19, The Post has learned... The school said that, per state and CDC guidelines, kids who are vaccinated will be able to attend maskless — while those who aren’t will need to wear a face covering. Students will need to show proof of inoculation to attend mask-free, and will be given wristbands to signify they’ve gotten the jab, Dr. Ira Pernick, the...

Pakistan’s National Assembly earlier this week passed a resolution condemning Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people. Several fiery speeches were made by the parliamentarians, with many questioning the usefulness of passing such a resolution and asking the government to do more. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced countrywide protests against Israel come Friday. What more? Pakistan declaring jihad against Israel and subsequently dropping nukes, using its artillery of missiles, war jets, or even the army, was the recurring “more” offered by parliamentarians. As Jamaat-e-Islami’s Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali asked of the army chief of Pakistan, what good was a seven...

An NFL document provided to Infowars reveals a league agenda to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for coaches and staff as the 2021 season prepares to launch.