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Russia's foreign ministry urged Israel on Thursday to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza to allow in food and medicine and said it was unacceptable that what it called the "indiscriminate" bombing of the Gaza Strip was causing so many civilian casualties. Moscow issued the statement after Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov spoke to Hussein Al-Sheikh, secretary general of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), by phone. The Russian foreign ministry said Bogdanov and Al-Sheikh had agreed on the need for a ceasefire and for the opening of human corridors to deliver food and medicine to Gaza's...

🚨BREAKING: Israeli Ground Forces Enter Nablus City, West Bank. pic.twitter.com/WGMOlpSjjQ— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) October 14, 2023

“ How L.A.’s bird population is shaped by historic redlining and racist loan practices” On a recent afternoon in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, Christian Benitez and Eric M. Wood stood outside a corner liquor store searching for birds. The researchers spotted a house sparrow and pulled binoculars to their eyes. “They’re all over the shrubbery in Boyle Heights,” said Wood, an associate professor of ecology at Cal State Los Angeles. Among the most ubiquitous and abundant songbirds in the world, house sparrows are urban creatures that thrive where people do. They’re resilient, adaptable and aggressive, and are found around buildings...

Anyone in France who supports Hamas or Islamic jihad will be sentenced to 5 years in prison.— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 14, 2023

Attorney David Harbach with the special counsel's office threw out a new argument during the two Garcia hearings scheduled Thursday, drawing ire from the judge for "wasting the court's time" by not filing the arguments and case citations the motions the government had already submitted.Defendants Carlos De Oliveira and Waltine Naut leave the courthouse after the Garcia hearings with their attorneys, on Oct. 12, 2023. (TJ Muscaro/The Epoch Times)Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira and butler Waltine Nauta were charged alongside former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents, and on Oct. 12, the government argued that their attorneys...

Yes or No. That is the choice Australia faces as polls have opened in what is seen as a nation-defining referendum. A Yes vote will recognise Indigenous peoples in the country's constitution and establish a body - called the Voice - for them to advise governments on the issues affecting their communities. A No outcome will reject both reforms. The historic vote has exposed uncomfortable fault lines, and raised questions over Australia's ability to reckon with its past. Some of the most painful chapters include massacres against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the forced removal of their children....

A man is not a woman. A man is not Woman of the Year. Yet, here we are.At an awards ceremony in the U.K., Virgin Atlantic Attitude Awards named Dylan Mulvaney, an American transgender activist and social media influencer, as Woman of the Year. The ceremony was for an LGBT magazine for the U.K. and Europe. Mulvaney attended the ceremony. When he accepted the award, he said that it has been 560 days since he started transitioning. That’s a long grift for social media. Dylan said some people “don’t see me as a woman at all.” Boos came from the...

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Two European Union member countries held elections this past weekend and the results are just beginning to come into focus. From my cynical viewpoint, they look pretty darn good. First up were regional elections in Germany. I’ve tried to keep you all up on the general deep sense of dissatisfaction with the way Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Green coalition has been forcing German citizens and their economy into NetZero naught land. These regional contests in two of the bigger, wealthier states in the country – Bavaria and Hesse – were going to be a prime test for how the wind might...

President Biden stumbled twice Friday while walking up the steps of a stage in Philadelphia — before telling his audience that Al Qaeda terrorists seem “pure” next to those from “evil” Hamas. The 80-year-old president initially staggered as he began to climb a small set of stairs to the stage, then lurched forward as he threatened to lose his balance completely — recalling a bad spill he took earlier this year during the Air Force Academy commencement exercises. When Biden regained his footing, he theatrically gripped the railing with both hands and mugged for his audience before making his way...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasted Republican members of Congress for rejecting House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) as speaker. Scalise was initially the party's nomination for speaker of the House but has since been replaced by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as their nominee. The Louisiana representative was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a relatively uncommon but treatable blood cancer, per his announcement in August. This diagnosis was cited as a reason to remove him from the running. "I’m dumbfounded that GOP Members (& Trump!) used Steve Scalise’s cancer as a reason to abandon him on the House floor—after nominating him for...

As the escalating conflict between Israel and Hamas continues to play out, Hezbollah has been making its presence felt. The terrorist group has engaged in skirmishes with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the north. But now, its leadership has indicated that the organization is “fully prepared” to get more involved in the fighting, which could further complicate the situation for Israel.One of Hezbollah’s leaders said during a recent speech that the organization rejects calls from other nations to stand down and refrain from entering the conflict.Foreign powers have urged Hezbollah to stay put on the sidelines - but deputy...

Israel maintains a hefty security presence in the occupied West Bank with a network of permanent and temporary checkpoints set up by the army and paramilitary border police. Military authorities do not reveal the number of checkpoints or their locations, and new, ad hoc posts often pop up overnight with no advance notice. Those checkpoints and the personnel needed to man them are reminders of how Israel’s military is spread out to maintain its occupation. There are also warning signs of the challenge Israel might face in supporting a likely increase in demand for these barriers from Israeli settlers while...

Vladimir Putin on Friday compared Israel to Nazi Germany as he turned on old ally Benjamin Netanyahu. The Russian president said Israel’s blockade of Gaza ahead of an expected ground offensive against Hamas was “unacceptable”. Israel has been pounding Gaza with air strikes and artillery, with some 300,000 troops stationed on the border in anticipation for a ground operation. Putin said this was comparable to Nazi forces’ siege of Leningrad between September 1941 and January 1944, when at least 750,000 of the city’s civilians starved to death. He told journalists on a visit to Kyrgyzstan that Israel’s plans for Gaza...

Funny how the 'mistakes' always are reported as nothing-to-see-here by the press, yet somehow always favor the Democrats. The formula is as predictable as the sun coming up in the morning. So here we have another one, this time in San Diego County. According to the Epoch Times:SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County Registrar of Voters office found that around 1 percent of voters for the Nov. 7 special election may have received duplicate ballots, it was announced Oct. 11.According to the registrar, the mistake impacts voters in the county Board of Supervisors District 4 special election and less than a...

Thanks to an activist Supreme Court, illegal aliens are entitled to all sorts of existing benefits. No wonder, then, that the Biden administration, having invited in millions of illegals, many from countries that wish us ill, has big plans to hand them billions in welfare payments. It has also emerged that the administration is threatening banks that, quite intelligently, don’t want to loan money to illegal aliens. This is the Cloward-Piven strategy on rocket fuel. As of January, U.S. citizens have been indirectly funding illegal aliens to the tune of about $150.7 billion per year. Ten months later, thanks to...

[Catholic Caucus] Dubium: ‘Are you a heretic, yes or no?’In a recent article, Roma Locuta Est took a brief look at the two sets of dubia presented by a group of five cardinals, and the response to them by Cardinal Fernandez (see A New Set of Dubia: This time, a different Outcome?).As outlined in my prior article, I commended the five cardinals for submitting these new Dubia to Pope Francis, and resubmitting them again in the face of clearly ambiguous answers (see HERE). At the time I wrote that we had these five new Dubia. However, since the publication of...

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) apprehended 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians in the Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas, in addition to two Lebanese men this week. CBP also apprehended an Egyptian man in his 40s in Eagle Pass, Texas, as terrorism concerns in the United States ramps up. NEW: FOX News has confirmed in addition to 2 Lebanese men, CBP apprehended an Egyptian man in his 40s in Eagle Pass yesterday…In the RGV Sector, since Monday, CBP officials there have apprehended 19 Iranians and 17 Syrians… all SIAs receiving extensive scrutiny @FoxNews— Griff Jenkins (@GriffJenkins) October 13, 2023Despite President...

By a vote of 21-13, the committee elected former Ravalli County Commissioner Ron Stoltz as central committee chair over Terry Nelson, who had served in that capacity since 2008. Nelson, a planner and surveyor by trade and Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2016, will continue in his role as state party secretary, a position to which he was elected at a statewide convention this June. Stoltz was nominated for chair by Sen. Theresa Manzella, R-Hamilton, the chair of the Montana Freedom Caucus and a prominent figure among Republican hardliners in Montana. She noted during Monday’s county party meeting that Stoltz was...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzian Army Failed in Avdiivka | They need Plastic bags | Ukraine Wins again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy1tbkqf3f0 The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the recent developments on the battlefield, as of 11th October 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). [NOTE: two summaries per week, released on Wednesday and Sunday] https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-595-summary/ *** Great interactive maps with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/