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Divided Jerusalem 0

Divided Jerusalem

Palestinians in Jerusalem make up close to 40 percent of the city’s population. They are required to pay taxes to the Israeli-controlled Jerusalem municipality like any inhabitant of the city. But Israel deliberately avoids investing in infrastructure and services in East Jerusalem. Only 10 percent of the Jerusalem municipality’s budget goes to public spending in…

How Iraq’s elections proved ‘discipline quo’ expectations rotten 0

How Iraq’s elections proved ‘discipline quo’ expectations rotten

With partial results of Iraq’s parliamentary vote released, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s Sairoon coalition (the Alliance of Revolutionaries for Reform) is leading in the polls. Coming in second is Hadi al-Amiri’s Fatah (Conquest) coalition, featuring a list of candidates from Shia militias. Incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s coalition, Nasr (Victory) Alliance, is third. Observers of Iraq’s…

An Overwhelmed French Police Power Are Chasing The Most widespread ISIS Attacker’s Connections 0

An Overwhelmed French Police Power Are Chasing The Most widespread ISIS Attacker’s Connections

BRUSSELS — French police fanned out across Europe Monday to investigate the terror connections of a Chechen immigrant after a series of knife attacks Saturday night after vowing allegiance to ISIS. Khamzat Azimov stabbed four people, one fatally, in his attack in the bustling Opera section of Paris before being shot and killed by police.…

A hundred-ball competitors plans because childhood ‘not drawn to cricket’ 0

A hundred-ball competitors plans because childhood ‘not drawn to cricket’

The younger generation are not attracted to cricket – ECB chairmanYoung people are « just not attracted to cricket », which is why a new 100-ball competition is being proposed, according to England and Wales Cricket Board chairman Colin Graves. The concept could see innings consist of 15 traditional six-ball overs and a final 10-ball over, and…

Scotland: Catalan separatist combating Spanish extradition case 0

Scotland: Catalan separatist combating Spanish extradition case

Glasgow, Scotland – To her supporters, she is the underdog taking on the might of the Spanish authorities; to her detractors, she is a fugitive from justice. Clara Ponsati is the former education minister of Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia and a current economics lecturer at Scotland’s University of St Andrews. The 61-year-old bespectacled politician…

Ex-FBI agent caught teaching police Islamophobic suggestions 0

Ex-FBI agent caught teaching police Islamophobic suggestions

An Islamophobic former FBI agent, who provides counterterrorism training to members of US law enforcement, has been secretly filmed telling police officers that Muslim students at American universities pose a threat of « jihad » and that a prominent civil rights group is a front for « terrorist » organisations. During the training event, John Guandolo – a conspiracy…

US Supreme Court solutions for Contemporary Jersey in command’s fight to legalize sports making a bet 0

US Supreme Court solutions for Contemporary Jersey in command’s fight to legalize sports making a bet

The U.S. Supreme Court will allow more states to legalize sports betting, breaking up Nevada’s monopoly on the practice, according to a ruling Monday. The court upheld the legality of a 2014 state law permitting sports betting at New Jersey casinos and horse racetracks and voided the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. Some…

Why Germans Are Getting Fed Up with The usa 0

Why Germans Are Getting Fed Up with The usa

Germans have never liked U.S. President Donald Trump, and the backlash against his actions is stronger than ever after he pulled the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal last week. But there’s a growing gap between the German establishment and German voters: The former may be anti-Trump but the latter are increasingly anti-American. German Chancellor Angel Merkel…