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Near kindergartens in the Amishev neighborhood in Ramla, today (Sunday) shocked parents of the kindergarten children discovered a nasty inscription spray-painted by Arabs on one of the nearby buildings that read: "Hitler the man." Following the incident, a complaint was filed with the police...

Hong Kong will include children aged five and above in its COVID-19 vaccine pass scheme from the end of September, the government said on Thursday (Sep 9), as authorities try to boost inoculation levels there. People aged 12 and above currently need to show proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, malls, supermarkets and sports facilities in the Chinese special administrative region. From Sep 30, children aged 5 to 11 will be required to have one vaccine shot, and two doses by Nov 30, the government said, adding that there had been a significant number of severe COVID-19 cases involving children...

Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often can choose to have a lumpectomy, which removes only cancerous tissue and a thin margin of surrounding healthy cells instead of the entire breast. Current cancer guidelines for most women under 65 recommend following lumpectomy with radiation therapy, which targets stray cancer cells that might otherwise cause breast cancer to recur or spread to other parts of the body. A new study could eventually expand an option for skipping radiation to some women as young as 55. The new evidence suggests that younger women with tumor features similar to those described above might...

Encouraging new data on a malaria vaccine from Oxford University bodes well for global effort to combat the mosquito-borne disease that kills a child every minute, its makers said on Wednesday. After decades of work, the only approved malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, made by British drugmaker GSK, was recently endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO). Oxford’s vaccine, called R21/Matrix-M, is likely more effective than Mosquirix in preventing the disease that kills about 600,000 a year despite roughly US$3 billion spent annually on insecticides, bednets and anti-malarial drugs, Oxford scientist Adrian Hill said.

Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, bashed the media Thursday, asserting they disseminate the left’s “lie” that law enforcement targets minorities.Lake, a former Fox 10 Phoenix anchor, held a joint press conference focused on law enforcement with Arizona’s Republican nominee for attorney general, Abe Hamadeh, at the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association.“A lot of people of color feel like they are unfairly targeted by police. Are they wrong to feel that way?” a reporter asked Lake. “And regardless of if there’s any merit there, what can you as governor do to improve the perception of police?”BIG MISTAKE: Reporter claims People of...

“We have a process in place to manage migrants at the border,” Biden said. “We’re working to make sure it’s safe and orderly and humane. “Republican officials should not interfere with that process by waging these political stunts. It’s long overdue for Senate Republicans to come to the table and provide a pathway for citizens, for dreamers, those in temporary status, farm workers and essential workers. We need to modernize our laws so businesses can get workers they need and families don’t have to wait decades to be brought back together.”

Syncretism and Freemasonry with Bergoglio in Astana. Benedict XVI: the truth is unfoldingVery few newspapers spoke of the self-styled Pope Francis at the interreligious meeting held in recent days in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Bergoglio is not the pope, as you know, because Benedict XVI has never abdicated, but he has been in the Impeded See for nine years, as documented with encyclopedic clarity by the investigation conducted on this page, later collected in the volume "Ratzinger Code", (Byoblu May 2022).It is striking that, with an investigation of this ubiquitous kind on the web and the inclusion of the...

A former teacher at a Christian high school in Florida was arrested for inappropriate behavior with a student for a second time this summer — this time stemming from accusations she twerked on a male student at prom. Julie Hoover, who used to teach at Point of Grace Christian School in Perry, was cuffed last week on charges of an authority figure soliciting or engaging in lewd conduct with a student and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to police records obtained by WCTV. Hoover, 39, was previously arrested in June and charged with one count of an...

CNN)The relocation of about 50 migrants from Texas to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, initiated this week by Florida's governor, has revived memories of strikingly similar tactics employed by southern segregationists 60 years ago. In 1962, a group of conservatives, intent on retaliating against desegregation efforts during the civil rights movement, funded one-way trips to the north for Black citizens, in what they called "Reverse Freedom Rides." Hundreds of Black Americans were transported to cities such as New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, recruited by members of a segregationist group called the White Citizens' Council, with false promises of jobs and housi

The cult group’s believers peel vegetables at the farmhouse.Scores of parents in Cambodia have urged the government to help bring back their children camping at a farmhouse owned by a politician-turned-doomsday prophet amid concerns they had been indoctrinated. Khem Veasna, head of the League for Democracy Party (LDP), claimed a devastating flood could wipe out humanity on Aug 30, and called on his supporters to take refuge at his mountainside plantation in Siem Reap province. More than 20,000 followers, including teenagers and Cambodians working in Thailand and Japan, returned to Cambodia and flocked to the estate to escape the impending...

[Catholic Caucus] Large Crowds March for Latin Mass in Washington DCAs many cities across the globe reel from the self harm of Latin Mass crackdowns, a group of Catholics in the Arlington and Washington DC took to the streets today to express their wish to see it restored. Carrying banners stating ‘What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred’ and ‘Save the Traditional Mass’, the Summorum Pontificum event was intended to petition for ‘The Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass’. Those marching said Rosaries on their route from one suppressed church to another. Speakers at the event decried the ‘rupture’...

Globally beloved but difficult to define, curry is a testament to the creativity and resilience of the human spirit, drawing its spices and aromatics from a worldwide pantry. By Published on "I paid a lot of bribes to learn, to be honest with you," Chintan Pandya, chef and partner of several excellent Indian restaurants in New York City, tells me with a look of bemusement. We're in the kitchen at Dhamaka, his restaurant of provincial cuisine dubbed "unapologetic Indian," which looks out on bustling Delancey Street in the Lower East Side. The chef drops a handful of curry leaves in...

The campaign of Uncle Fester-ish, ne’er do well goon running for United Staes Senator in Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, seems to have had a sudden attack of the yips this weekend. They’ve sent out a terse little memo, warning of increased Republican ad spending, and that they can’t match the money.PHILADELPHIA — John Fetterman continues to lead Mehmet Oz in the polls, but the Pennsylvania Democrat’s Senate campaign is privately sounding the alarm that things could change if he continues getting outspent on TV....For all the regular guy act, Fetterman has significant problems, and those are starting to surface as liabilities....

Recent research has demonstrated that as many as 200 million people in the Americas and Europe have Jewish ancestry who were forcibly converted. …The process for certification begins with filling out a relatively short questionnaire about a person’s background, clues about their Jewish heritage, like customs, family trees or items with a Jewish connection, and their reasons for believing they have Sephardi ancestry. This information will then be assessed by a team of experts and researchers who will determine if the applicant has enough information to be awarded the certificate... …While the certificate will have no legal status, it is...

Hopes that the Covid-19 pandemic could be over soon have risen online in China with a UN agency's assessment that the end is "in sight" but there is no sign in the country that strict controls will be abandoned. Nevertheless, Chinese state media have denied suggestions that the country's "dynamic zero-Covid" approach will become permanent government policy. Expectations of a potential end to restrictions in China were raised on Wednesday (Sept 14) when the United Nations posted a message on its WeChat account that next week's UN General Assembly session would include a meeting to discuss "ending the Covid-19 pandemic"....

Two Covid-19 antibody therapies are no longer recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as Omicron and the variant's latest offshoots have likely rendered them obsolete. The two therapies - which are designed to work by binding to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 to neutralise the virus' ability to infect cells - were some of the first medicines developed early in the pandemic. The virus has since evolved, and mounting evidence from lab tests suggests the two therapies - sotrovimab, as well as casirivimab-imdevimab - have limited clinical activity against the latest iterations of the virus.

An accused jilted madman who flew into an ax-wielding rage at a Lower East Side McDonald’s was released without bail at his arraignment, authorities said Sunday. Michael Palacios, 31, who allegedly grabbed an ax and trashed the Delancey Street fast-food joint in a fit early Friday, was arraigned on fourth-degree criminal-mischief and possession-of-weapons charges hours later and freed, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said. Neither charge is eligible for bail under the state’s lenient criminal-justice reforms. According to a criminal complaint filed in the case, Palacios slammed two tables and a plate-glass partition during the early-morning rampage. Palacios also told...

"Hashtag, 50 is the new 30," says Tiat Lim when asked about his age. And for Tiat, who turned half-a-century old early this year, the statement isn't a hollow one by a mid-lifer in denial either. More from AsiaOne Read the condensed version of this story, and other top stories with NewsLite. After all, the man has been found to have successfully reversed his biological age by more than 20 years. The "de-ageing" process to turn back the clock took him about six years, from around the time he and his sister opened their gym, Bespoke Fitness, in 2016. The...

Hurricane Fiona is striking Puerto Rico. Forbes reports that the island's entire electrical grid ...

Bill Clinton, 76, said that Republicans are only able to 'close' in midterm elections because 'they scare people' into thinking they need to vote in right-leaning politicians. The former Democratic president said that his party could hold onto the House and Senate in November's election if they 'say the right things' – suggesting that Republicans are better at embellishing to make their cause seem more dire. While early predictions pointed to a Republican bloodbath in the 2022 midterms, more recent polling has shown Democrats and the GOP at a tie or close to one when asked which party likely voters...