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Israeli police officers sparked a diplomatic and religious row on Sunday after they stopped two top clergymen from going to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to celebrate the Palm Sunday Mass. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, who serves as the Head of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, and Custos of the Holy Land Father Francesco Ielpo, were “compelled” by Israeli police to turn back from their procession towards the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest site in Christianity. The two Catholic clergymen were on their way towards the site of the…
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that it has become toxic to support Israel among Democrats and Democrats who are starting to refuse AIPAC money are saying that “Israel is a monster country and it’s a dirty country and this is dirty money, and that gives permission to a lot of people who are actually antisemitic to say, well, you know what, if a Democratic senator won’t take their money, this must be a dirty country.” Maher read a viewer question on Democrats distancing themselves from AIPAC that asked, “Has…
Starting on July 1, Idaho will become the only state in the union that uses a firing squad as its primary option to fulfill its death penalty obligations. Idaho will also become one of only three states that include child rape as a death penalty crime. Currently, the firing squad option is Idaho’s second option after lethal injection. Five states currently offer firing squads as a death penalty option. Last March, South Carolina executed 67-year-old Brad Sigmon by firing squad. Sigmon had been on death row for nearly a quarter century for beating his ex-girlfriend’s parents to death with a…
Rescuers are pulling bodies from the rubble as more are believed trapped underneath, RT’s bureau chief Hami Hamedi reports from the scene At least three people have been killed after a residential building was destroyed during US-Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian capital overnight, RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi has reported from the scene.The death toll from the attack on Friday morning remains unclear as several more people are believed to still be trapped under the rubble. Hamedi, who visited the site, witnessed rescuers combing through the debris in the hope of finding survivors. The overnight airstrikes on Tehran were…
An Indian national has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after allegedly ploughing a car into pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday evening. The English cathedral city of Derby was struck with horrific scenes as at least seven people were injured in the Friar Gate downtown area at around 9:30 pm when a black Suzuki Swift was driven into a crowd of people. Fortunately, all seven people did not suffer life-threatening injuries. According to the local police, a 36-year-old man from India, who is said to have lived in the area for a “number of years”, has been…
Actress Christina Applegate reflected on the abortion of her child in the 1990s in her new memoir You with the Sad Eyes. Applegate, the star of the ’90s hit Married…with Children, revealed in her New York Times Bestseller that she considered the abortion of her baby “murder” and even called it “killing my child,” and detailed her struggle with grief in the aftermath of her decision, NewBusters reported. Her memoir delves into her traumatic childhood experiences, including sexual abuse, as well as her current debilitating struggle with MS. In the audio version of her memoir, she says she “fell pregnant” in April of…
Karol Nawrocki has criticized the union’s energy and migration policies that “go against common sense” as well as “ideological projects” Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said the EU “needs urgent repair” and criticized self-defeating energy and migration policies imposed on member states by unelected bureaucrats as well as a growing ideological slant within the bloc.A poll by Eurobazooka late last year indicated that 25% of Polish respondents favored a ‘Polexit,’ with another 6% unsure, making the country a major hotspot of Euroscepticism. National daily Gazeta Wyborcza noted at the time that as recently as 2022, around 92% of Poles favored…
(AFP) — Police have arrested two more people over an apparent bid to explode a homemade device outside the Paris branch of the Bank of America, the French domestic security service said on Sunday. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Saturday he thought the war in the Middle East might have motivated the attempted attack. Police detained a first suspect, possibly a minor, in the early hours of Saturday just after he placed a device outside the bank building, near the Champs-Elysees. The suspect was accompanied by a second person, who appeared to be taking photos and videos with a…
Apple is preparing to launch an advertising program within its Maps application as part of an ongoing effort to increase revenue from its services division. Autoblog reports that Apple is preparing to launch an advertising program within its Maps application as part of an ongoing effort to increase revenue from its services division. The initiative represents the company’s latest move to expand its advertising business and diversify income streams beyond hardware sales. According to sources familiar with the matter who requested anonymity due to the confidential nature of the plans, an official announcement regarding the new advertising program could arrive as…
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said that things like “body cameras, wearing your IDs, not wearing masks,” “make sense” for ICE and CBP. Bacon said, “I would say that there was overreach done by Border Patrol and ICE. I have a couple incidences in Omaha where people were in Omaha legally with legal work permits and were detained and were in the process of being deported, until we intervened. And so, we do need to rein in ICE and Border Patrol. I think they — we have new leadership. I’ve got to keep stressing…