Tag: Syria

NHS doctor faces calls to be SUSPENDED for ‘sickening’ post that mocked innocent Israeli festivalgoers fleeing Hamas gunmen

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A doctor who mocked terrified Israelis fleeing Hamas gunmen is today facing calls to be suspended over her ‘repugnant’ comments.

MailOnline yesterday revealed how Dr Mennah Elwan stated ‘if it was your home, you would stay and fight’ in response to horrifying footage of Palestinian terrorists opening fire on innocent party-goers.

The neurology registrar also claimed ‘there are no civilians in Israel’ in her series of abhorrent posts on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Unglaubliche Bilder aus „damals und heute“ zeigen New York in seinen Kinderschuhen – bevor das World Trade Center die „geschäftige Einwandererenklave“ Little Syria ersetzte und der Times Square mit LED-Werbung und Touristen überfüllt war

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Ein faszinierendes neues Buch zeigt, wie wenig oder wie viel Wandel New York im letzten Jahrhundert erlebt hat, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Bildern, die Schnappschüssen von heute gegenübergestellt werden.

Jamie McDonald, der Autor von „New York City Yesterday and Today“, hat für die Steuerbehörde Hunderte von Bildern gesichtet, die größtenteils zwischen 1930 und 1940 aufgenommen wurden, um praktisch jede Immobilie in den fünf Bezirken der Stadt zu dokumentieren. Manhattan, Brooklyn, die Bronx, Queens und Staten Island.

In der Einleitung stellt er fest, dass

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Helen Mirren brilliantly portrays Golda Meir in a new biopic. But few people know the full, epic story of the woman who became Israel’s only female Prime Minister at the age of 70

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At lunchtime, the bombs began to fall. Explosions thundered and fireballs roared across the Golan Heights – the Levantine region seized by Israel after it was attacked by Syria in 1967 – as hundreds of Syrian MiG airplanes dropped their deadly payloads. Some 1,400 of Damascus’s tanks had massed for the invasion, against just 180 for the Israeli defenders.

To the south-west, across the Suez Canal, a terrifying horde of 600,000 Egyptian soldiers, supported by 550 aircraft and a further

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Israeli Missile Strike Kills 4 Near Damascus, Syria Says

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Syrian state media reported on Monday that an Israeli missile attack targeting the vicinity of Syria’s capital, Damascus, had killed four soldiers and wounded four others.

The report, which cited an unidentified military source, said the strike had occurred at about 2:20 a.m. and had come from the direction of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed.

Syrian air defenses shot some of the missiles down, according to the report, which said there had

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Drone attack on tanker shows Kyiv’s intent to hit Russian energy shipments – POLITICO

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KYIV — An overnight naval drone attack against a Russian tanker in the Black Sea signals a potential new front in the Ukraine war, with Kyiv delivering its strongest message to date that it is willing to target Moscow’s all-important shipments of oil and fuel.

The battle for supremacy in the Black Sea is ramping up fast, with massive implications for global energy and food security. The attack on

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Scoop! Why Ben from Ben & Jerry’s blames America for war in Ukraine – POLITICO

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Ben Cohen wasn’t talking about ice cream. He was talking about American militarism.

At 72, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream is bald and bespectacled. He looks fit, cherubic even, but when he got going on what it was like to grow up during the Cold War, his tone became less playful and more assertive — almost defiant. 

“I had his image of these two countries facing each other, and each one had this huge pile of shiny,

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The untold story behind Syria’s White Helmets – POLITICO

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AMSTERDAM — I first met James Le Mesurier in Istanbul. He greeted me at his office, a three-story building in the trendy district of Beyoğlu, along the shores of the Bosphorus Strait. I had traveled to Turkey to meet him, a renowned humanitarian and one of the founders of the White Helmets rescue group in Syria. James had the dignified bearing of a former soldier in the British military,

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2023’s most important election: Turkey – POLITICO

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For Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, next month’s election is of massive historical significance.

It falls 100 years after the foundation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s secular republic and, if Erdoğan wins, he will be empowered to put even more of his stamp on the trajectory of a geostrategic heavyweight of 85 million people. The fear in the West is that he will see this as his moment to push

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Kate Middleton and Prince William meet people who have raised money for those in Turkey and Syria

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The Princess of Wales wore a floral headscarf as she joined Prince William to meet with volunteers who had fundraised to help communities in Turkey and Syria this morning.

Kate Middleton, 41, opted to recycle an Alexander McQueen black pleated dress, which she first wore to meet with well-wishers in Sandringham after the Queen’s death, for the outing at Hayes Muslim Centre in London today. 

Meanwhile she also wore a black and white veil by Pakistani brand Élan, which is

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The Earthquake Has Left Syrian Kurds Even More Under Siege

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