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The Dubious Land Deal Threatening East Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter
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May 14, 2024
In April 2023, the community learned that an Israeli real estate company would soon construct a hotel on one-fourth of their land. “Progressively, we will lose everything.”
The Armenian car park in the Old City of Jerusalem in December 2023.
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Malaria parasites can evade rapid tests, threatening eradication goals
Over the last couple of decades, rapid diagnostic tests have emerged as a vital tool in the global fight to control malaria. The relatively inexpensive test strips have diagnosed millions of cases in just minutes, hastening access to lifesaving treatment. They’ve also drastically improved surveillance in harder-to-reach rural areas, sharpening public health experts’ view of the toll of this mosquito-borne disease that kills around half a million people globally each year.
But this progress could be undermined by the malaria-causing
The Unnatural Disaster Threatening Puerto Rico’s Children
The island’s health system is on its knees. Doctors are fleeing in droves. And the crisis is hurting children most of all.
The island’s health system is on its knees. Doctors are fleeing in droves. And the crisis is hurting kids most of all.
San Juan, Puerto Rico—Yarelys Díaz Rivera was desperate. Her young daughter, Isabella, was gravely ill. What
Utility Fraud and Corruption Are Threatening the Clean Energy Transition – Mother Jones
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At a press conference last month, flanked by sheriffs and attorneys, Ohio Attorney General David Yost announced the indictments of two utility executives who allegedly tried to “hijack” state electricity policy for their own corrupt ends by paying
Jordan Peterson Invites Elon Musk To Join Legal Battle Against Canadian Regulator Threatening His License
Dr. Jordan Peterson invited billionaire business magnate Elon Musk on Sunday to join his legal battle against the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which has threatened to remove Peterson’s clinical psychology license over his social media activity.
Peterson and the Canadian regulator have been facing off against each other since November after the government-backed college levied accusations that Peterson “may have lacked professionalism” in some of his social media posts, The Daily Wire previously reported. The regulator, which governs the
Crypto millionaire received threatening messages in the week before his grisly death: report
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
A crypto millionaire received threatening messages a week before children discovered a suitcase on the banks of a river that contained his dismembered body parts.
“I’m going to kill you, I’m going to do something worse to you,” a man said in a voice message to Fernando Pérez Algaba. “I’m going to gouge out your eyes and cut off your hands so that you can’t have any more money in your life.”
“I swear on my children
Russia threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, Ukraine says – POLITICO
Russia is threatening civilian vessels in the Black Sea, more than a week after the Kremlin reneged on a U.N.-backed deal to allow Kyiv to export grain across the Black Sea, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff said.
“Russian warships are threatening civilians in the waters of the Black Sea, violating all norms of international maritime law,” Andriy Yermak, head of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office, said on Telegram on Friday.
Yermak added that these are the “methods of terrorists” and