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The Washington Post spent the entire week knocking the Abraham Accords that were struck under former President Trump as tensions continue to rise between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas. In the final months of 2020, the Trump administration brokered a historic peace agreement between Israel and several Arab nations that paved the way for normalized relations. The nations that struck deals with the Jewish State include the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. While the Abraham Accords had been regarded as one of Trump's greatest foreign policy achievements, the Washington Post appeared gitty in trashing the peace deal as violence...

The Yellow Vests are planning protests with specific sites given in Paris as the Champs-Elysees at 930am tomorrow (330 am Eastern US). Protesters are set to be at the Palace de l'Opera between 1030am and 1230pm. Another gathering for protest set at the Port Maillot-Gare Saint Lazare at 10am. Protests are set in other cities like Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Nantes. A protest is set for the Mont-Blanc tunnel and there are other locations listed. BFM-TV in France reports that fewer buses have been chartered to bring protesters to Paris tomorrow. 24 journalists in France have filed complaints against police...

Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with 'thousands' of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weekend of confrontation..... The Eiffel Tower and other tourist landmarks were shut, shops were boarded up to avoid looting and street furniture removed to avoid metal bars from being used as projectiles. About 89,000 police were deployed across the country.

A marriage counselling service could be forced to close unless it accepts same-sex spousesThe Irish government has threatened to stop funding the bishops’ marriage counselling agency unless it changes its policy to accept gay couples. Accord, an agency of the Irish bishops’ conference, received £1.4 million in state funding last year and could potentially be forced to close if such funding is withdrawn. said that Tusla, the government’s childcare agency, has said that any agency it funds must make its services “accessible to everyone”. A new agreement has been sent to state-funded counselling services including Accord. In England and Wales...

New Honda Accord a major step backwards - and that's a good thing!By Jim BrayTechnoFile.comIt may not be back completely but, as evidenced by the newly redesigned 2018 Honda Accord, it looks as if the honoured Japanese carmaker is back on track. Or at least well on the way.I've been particularly vociferous about my Honda angst in recent years. The company makes terrific cars - and they still do, for the most part - but somewhere along the way between adding all the new drivers' aids and pursuing ever more strict fuel economy mandates the company seemed to lose its...

Headline of the Day Poll Was President Trump right to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement? No. The United States should take the lead against Global Warming. Yes. Global Warming is a foolish hoax.

The American Jewish community is so split over the Iranian nuclear deal that meetings of some Jewish organizations dealing with other Jewish communal issues are being cancelled because people don’t want to argue about the accord, Greg Rosenbaum, the chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council, said Sunday. Rosenbaum, speaking to a delegation of Israeli diplomatic journalists visiting the US, said that this is an issue that is threatening to tear apart the American Jewish community. “We have passed the point of civil discussion, and now are almost at fratricide” over this issue, he said. ”I am not sure we...

Does anyone recall an accord that states that every nation importing oil from opec, the bulk of which comes from the middle east, must allow a certain number of muslim immigrants into their nation. I first read of this maybe 8 to 10 years ago. I do not know if it was true. That is why I am seeking it now, to verify.

The Israeli government has asked Egypt to withdraw the armored vehicles it deployed in Sinai ten days ago, in contravention of the peace treaty between the two nations, according to Al-Quds Al-Arabi, which quotes Israeli sources. Israel said that the deployment of armored forces in the EL Arish area was only reported to it retroactively by Egypt, after the forces had already been deployed. Once Egypt supplied Israel with the full details about the extent of the deployment, the Jewish state asked Egypt to withdraw its armor from northern Sinai. "Security sources" told the paper that this is a moment...

WASHINGTON—After more than 20 hours of continuous wrangling, Congressional Democrats and White House officials reached agreement on the final shape of legislation that would transform financial regulation, avoiding last-minute defections among New York lawmakers that had threatened to upend the bill. After months of uncertainty about how the U.S. would craft new rules, the agreement offers the clearest picture since the financial crisis of how markets and the government will interact for decades to come. The common thread: large financial companies are facing a tougher leash.

Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD Heart Risk Isn't Cut for Diabetes Patients Who Aggressively Lower Blood Pressure, Blood Fats March 15, 2010 (Atlanta) -- Lowering blood pressure and blood fat levels to below current guidelines did not bring down higher risks of heart problems for diabetes patients, according to new results from a landmark federal study. But for individual people with diabetes, the findings brought some good news in that the current standard of care worked better than expected, some doctors say. Also, for people with diabetes that are at particularly heightened risk of heart problems, aggressive management may...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – China has told participants in the U.N. climate change talks that it sees no possibility of reaching an operational accord this week, an official involved in the Copenhagen talks told Reuters on Thursday. The official, who asked not to be identified by name, said the Chinese had suggested instead issuing "a short political declaration of some sort." It was not clear what that would say. The official said negotiations were continuing to try to achieve a breakthrough that would still allow an operational agreement to be signed. The development came as dozens of heads of state were...

President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say.

The target hemoglobin A1c of less than 7% should remain the general goal for nonpregnant adults with diabetes, despite recent results from three large randomized trials showing that intensive glucose lowering did not reduce the risks of cardiovascular disease in people with longstanding type 2 diabetes. But glycemic targets that are either more or less stringent than that standard may be prudent for certain individuals with diabetes, according to a position statement issued jointly last month by the American College of Cardiology, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association and published online in the journals of each organization: the Journal...

(San Francisco Bureau) SAN FRANCISCO — Lowering hemoglobin A1c levels below currently recommended levels did not reduce the risk of macrovascular events in high-risk patients with established type 2 diabetes in two large studies, and significantly increased the risk of death in one of the studies. Providers should focus on managing blood pressure and lipid levels to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes who are at high risk for macrovascular complications, and stick to the currently recommended goal of an HbA1c level between 7% and 7.9%, several investigators suggested during a press conference held at the annual...

Honda gave word earlier today that the company's first US-bound diesel powerplant will arrive by 2009, likely powering an upcoming Accord model. The company calls its four-cylinder 2.2 i-CTDi "superclean," meaning it'll meet emissions standards by way of a newly developed NOx catalytic converter that engages in a high-tech cleaning process. It absorbs NOx from exhaust gas and converts a portion of it into ammonia, which is also absorbed and used later in a reaction that converts the remaining NOx in the exhaust into nitrogen (N2). That nitrogen is, in turn, converted into grape soda, which is frozen and...

New Analysis Shows No Sign of Increased Risk to Patients Receiving Intense Therapy One week after U.S. researchers announced that pushing down blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible might be dangerous for high-risk diabetes patients, a preliminary analysis of a similar international study has found no such risk. The seemingly conflicting findings, released today, stoked the new uncertainty about the best strategy for treating type 2 diabetes, one of the most common health problems in the United States and elsewhere. "This unfortunately just makes things more confusing," said Richard Kahn of the American Diabetes Association. "I think...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistani officials struggled Monday to salvage a peace deal meant to contain militants near the Afghan border and urged tribal elders to halt violence surging across the northwest. Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, long insisted the 10-month-old accord was key to ending extremism in the tribal region, although U.S. officials complained it provided the Taliban and al-Qaida with a safe haven. Pro-Taliban militants in the lawless North Waziristan region renounced the agreement amid weekend bombings and suicide attacks that killed more than 70 people across the northwest, most of them policemen and soldiers. The violence has added...

Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) - The Delegation of the State of Israel, expected at the Vatican on Thursday 29 March, has decided not to come, and has communicated this only a very few days before the scheduled appointment. The news was soon widely known among media people in Rome, who cover the Vatican, since several key journalists had been invited to meet the Head of the Israeli Delegation on Thursday evening, following the negotiations in the Vatican, and have now had to be told by the Israeli Authorities that Israel had decided not to send the Delegation. In the absence so...

Nuke Accords Breathe Life into N.Korean Bonds Insolvent North Korean bonds worth W400 billion (US$1=W946) are finding favor with international traders. Denominated in Swiss francs and German marks, the 13-year bonds maturing March 12, 2010 are being traded on major international financial markets like New York and London. North Korean bonds were valued at less than 10 cents per dollar five or six years ago, but since the six-way nuclear deal was reached in Beijing last month they have surged on expectations that the North Korean economy will gather steam. According to a London finance insider, some investors are purchasing...