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Thousands of Christians turn out in war-ravaged Syria to celebrate Easter

RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 06:15 UTC

Crowds have lined up for Easter celebrations across Syria. Festive processions, involving priests, worshippers and scouts, marched through the streets in Aleppo, Latakia and Damascus, marking the Palm Sunday.

As Catholics around the world celebrated one of the most significant Christian holidays on April 1, commemorating the resurrection of Jesus, thousands in the war-ravaged Syria, including in the capital Damascus and liberated Aleppo swarmed the streets.

People filled the square in front of the Holy Cross Church in Damascus, the seat of the Greek (Melkite) Catholic Church. Ahead of the festivities, which also saw uniformed Scouts of Syria parading through the city center, the cathedral was visited by Asma al-Assad, the country's first lady.

Bahrain strikes biggest oil field find since 1932

RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:49 UTC

Bahrain has announced that it has struck upon its biggest oil find since 1932. The country's official news agency reported the discovery of "highly significant quantities of oil and gas" off its west coast Sunday.

The resource, which is said to "dwarf" Bahrain's current reserves, was found at the end of last year following an order to intensify the search for deposits of crude. "Initial analysis demonstrates the find is at substantial levels, capable of supporting the long-term extraction of tight oil [light crude] and deep gas," Bahraini Oil Minister Shaikh Mohamed bin Khalifa al-Khalifa told the agency. It is the largest find in nearly 90 years.

Such tough guys: IDF shoot 12-year-old Palestinian boy during Gaza Land Day protests

Sputnik
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:17 UTC

© Reuters / Mohammed Salem
Palestinians attend a tent city protest along the Israel border with Gaza, demanding the right to return to their homeland, east of Gaza City

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy has been wounded by Israeli forces who opened fire on a crowd of protesters during the ongoing Land Day protests calling on Israel to return Palestinian lands illegally seized in 1948.

A Palestinian boy was hospitalized to Gaza hospital with a bullet wound on Sunday, reported the Jerusalem Post. The boy said he thought he was safe at the Land Day protest as long as he did not touch the barrier or throw stones.

"I was just standing there when I felt something hit my leg and it pushed me to the ground," the boy, Bashar Wahdan, told reporters. According to Jpost.com, the bullet cut through blood vessels and broke a bone.

America's self-satisfied 'Me Generation' has abandoned the anti-war movement - if it even remembers it at all

Robert Bridge
RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:34 UTC

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Members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War march around the Capitol here, as part of their week-long demonstration against the Vietnam War.

Once upon a war, Americans waged large-scale protests against overseas military adventures, even helping to stop the Vietnam War. Today, the spirit of dissent has vanished, replaced by intensely personal issues.

The first months of 2018 demonstrated that the protest movement in the United States is alive and well. In January, millions of women - energized by the Hollywood-inspired #MeToo movement - took to the streets of America to voice their displeasure at Donald Trump's first tumultuous year in the White House, as well as sexual discrimination against females.

In March, another protest rocked America as thousands of protesters - moved by the Parkland high-school shooting, which left 17 people dead in Florida - assembled in Washington, DC in a call for stricter gun control. In light of the disturbing frequency of shooting sprees in the US, it would be wrong to question the importance of such a movement. Yet, however tragic is the sight of innocent Americans being slaughtered by some deranged shooter, those deaths pale in comparison to the number of innocent people being killed in foreign lands as a direct result of US military incursions, many of them absolutely illegal.

Twitter jumps on McFaul's RT-propaganda-blaming wagon over Skripal article even though reporting was accurate

RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:22 UTC

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Forensic officers in Gillingham, Dorset,United Kingdom, where they removed a vehicle in the latest development following the Russian spy Sergei Skripal attack.

Michael McFaul and his Russia-hating Twitter supporters have hit out at RT as "propaganda" - for accurately reporting a comment made by Moscow about the Skripal case.

McFaul is a former ambassador to Russia and current Stanford professor, who persistently pushes against Russia. He took to Twitter on Sunday to denounce RT for publishing an article with the headline: "UK may have staged Skripal poisoning to rally people against Russia - Moscow." The article details a highly newsworthy statement made by Russia's envoy to the UK, Alexander Yakovenko, concerning the poisoning of ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter.

While speaking to Russia's NTV channel, Yakovenko said that "we have very serious suspicion that this provocation was done by British intelligence," adding: "The Britons are claiming a leading role in the so-called containment of Russia. To win support from the people and the parliament for this containment of Russia, a serious provocation was required. And the Britons may have done a really savage one to get this support."

London becomes deadlier than New York with 31 fatal stabbings in 2018 so far

Gareth Davies and Cheyenne Roundtree
Daily Mail
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 14:29 UTC

A murder epidemic is sweeping London. On Sunday, an unnamed man in his 20s became the 12th person in just 19 days to be gunned down or stabbed to death in the capital

A teenager is fighting for his life after being stabbed on the streets of London as the British capital's murder rate soared above that of New York.

The 16-year-old boy is the latest victim of violent crime after an incident in Bow, east London, at about 6.05pm on Sunday night.

It is thought the teen was stabbed near a parade of shops just off the A12 and witnesses described seeing two people being stretchered away from the scene.

The teenage victim was in a critical condition last night and two men were arrested.

The American idiocracy grows when merit-based hiring is deemed racist

Ilana Mercer
Katehon
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:49 UTC

As individuals, we want the best doctors treating and operating on us, the best pilots flying the airplanes we board, the best engineers designing the bridges we cross, the best scientists inventing and bringing to market the medicines and potions we ingest.

Yet the American Idiocracy is moving to equate merit-based institutions with institutionalized racism.

Tucker Carlson, likely the only merit-based hiree at Fox News, recently divulged that a member of the Trump administration was overheard (by a thought-police plant) expressing a preference for merit-based recruits for his department.

Egad, and what next!

Google, a tool of the Idiocracy, appears to have scrubbed its search of this latest episode in "The Closing of the American Mind." However, it's no secret that the education system already excludes the most naturally gifted, independent-minded individuals from fields in which they'd excel.

'Non-existent' baby denied medical assistance in Italy over bureaucratic hiccup - report

RT
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:59 UTC

An Italian-born baby boy has been left without medical assistance and does not exist according to state records, all because he shares the same first name as his twin brother.

A Pakistani family who have been living in Italy for 10 years with a legitimate residence permit couldn't imagine that giving their twins the same name would make them "prisoners of bureaucracy," according to La Stampa, citing the children's father, Syed Yasir Abbas. His sons, born only minutes apart from each other on October 5 in Novara, share the same surname and forename. The only difference is the middle name - the eldest is Muhammad Ashtar and the youngest is Muhammad Ammar.

However, the middle name was not enough for the Italian authorities to distinguish between the babies as the parents faced problems while trying to register the newborns at the Italian Agency of Revenue. It turned out that only the elder of the twins, Muhammad Ammar, had been accepted by the system.

Thus the second twin cannot apply for an Italian fiscal code (a sequence of letters and numbers, given to every Italian resident) and is essentially considered non-existent for paperwork purposes. The bureaucratic failure has made the child's life extremely complex. With no fiscal code, the youngster has no access to the same medical service that is provided to all newborns, including regular visits to a pediatrician.

Saudi strike in Yemen kills over a dozen members of same family

PressTV
Mon, 02 Apr 2018 13:40 UTC

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A photo taken on March 18, 2018, shows a Yemeni child looking out at buildings that were damaged in a Saudi airstrike in the southern Yemeni city of Ta’izz.

More than a dozen civilians have been killed and several others injured when Saudi military aircraft carried out separate airstrikes against residential areas across Yemen as the Riyadh regime continues with its atrocious bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor.

A local medical source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that Saudi warplanes targeted a refugee camp in the al-Hali district of Yemen's western coastal province of Hudaydah on Monday afternoon.

The source added that the aerial assault left 14 people dead and nine others injured.

The victims were all from the same family. There were seven children among the deceased.

Israeli occupation forces deliberately targeted journalists in Gaza

The Palestinian Information Center
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 13:04 UTC

The government media office in Gaza said that the Israeli occupation forces deliberately targeted journalists during the recent protests held in Gaza in an attempt to prevent them from revealing the truth.

In a statement on Saturday, the media office accused Israeli forces of firing live ammunition and tear gas grenades directly at journalists who were covering the border protests in Gaza on Friday and Saturday despite the clear and special signs referring to their job they were holding and their presence in spots relatively away from the participants in the protests.

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Society's Child

Thousands of Christians turn out in war-ravaged Syria to celebrate Easter

Bahrain strikes biggest oil field find since 1932

Such tough guys: IDF shoot 12-year-old Palestinian boy during Gaza Land Day protests

America's self-satisfied 'Me Generation' has abandoned the anti-war movement - if it even remembers it at all

Twitter jumps on McFaul's RT-propaganda-blaming wagon over Skripal article even though reporting was accurate

London becomes deadlier than New York with 31 fatal stabbings in 2018 so far

The American idiocracy grows when merit-based hiring is deemed racist

'Non-existent' baby denied medical assistance in Italy over bureaucratic hiccup - report

Saudi strike in Yemen kills over a dozen members of same family

Israeli occupation forces deliberately targeted journalists in Gaza

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