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The Lord said to Moses: “Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. If only one is sounded, the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you. When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out. At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be...

A line of Metropolitan Police officers “took a knee” in tribute to George Floyd today as thousands of protesters gathered outside Downing Street. At least 15,000 Black Lives Matter protesters including actor John Boyega and singer Liam Payne gathered in London, ignoring social distancing guidelines, as a show of anger against the death of Mr. Floyd in the US. And at least 2,000 of those demonstrated in front of Downing Street, shouting “take a knee” at Metropolitan Police officers guarding security gates. Four officers obliged, to the approval of the crowds, who urged other officers to follow the example of...

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has paid a visit to Gordon Brown in Downing Street. Baroness Thatcher arrived at three o'clock this afternoon. Tea for two at Number 10After meeting staff, including the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Tom Scholar whose father worked for her, Baroness Thatcher had private discussions with Mr Brown. She then went upstairs for tea in the flat she and her husband Dennis once lived in. The Chancellor Alistair Darling and his wife Margaret who now live there played host and Sarah Brown came too with the Prime Minister's children. Baroness Thatcher was invited to No....

SALT LAKE CITY – Down through the years there has been a remarkable relationship between American presidents and British prime ministers. Churchill and Roosevelt. Thatcher and Reagan. Blair and Bush. Here is how one American president admiringly described one of those prime ministers: "Whereas [he] ... has been throughout his life a firm and steadfast friend of the American people and the American nation; and.... "Whereas his bravery, charity and valor, both in war and peace, have been a flame of inspiration in freedom's darkest hour; and "Whereas his life has shown that no adversary can overcome, and no feat...