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Buildings forming part of Nof Zion, a Jewish settler enclave in East Jerusalem.
Buildings forming part of Nof Zion, a Jewish settler enclave in East Jerusalem.
On Sunday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates denounced the plan to construct 300 new housing units in the occupied part of Jerusalem. The plan is "part of Israel's colonial and expansionist projects implemented by the Israeli government encouraged by the latest announcement of US President Donald Trump's to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel," the ministry said. Israel's Construction and Housing Minister Yoav Galant allegedly advocated for the scheme.
The Palestinian ministry said the "Israeli colonial dare" would not have happened was it not for Trump's controversial decision to recognize Jerusalem "as the capital of the occupying power." The statement added that Palestinian authorities would hold the American president and his administration personally responsible "for any crimes" that might stem from Israel's "expansionist" move.
The alleged "aggressive" settlement plans under the so-called Greater Jerusalem bill have also been condemned by the Palestine Liberation Organization's Department of Jerusalem Affairs. It noted that the construction project aims to fragment the "geographical and demographic unity" of Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian WAFA news agency.
Mark and Lynn Wivell said their homeowner's association had made the request after they put up the display outside their home in Adams County, Pennsylvania.
"As part of our Christmas decoration, we would display the name Jesus to point out to everyone that we in this family believe that the reason for the season is to celebrate the birth of Jesus," Mr Wivell told the FOX43 news channel.
In a separate interview with the USA Today newspaper, his wife Lynn added: "I was quite shocked it offended somebody, but I guess in today's world I shouldn't have been."
Shortly after putting up the display, the pair received an email from the association asking them to remove it, because an unnamed neighbour had complained it was offensive.
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As many as 1,200 investigations have been launched by federal prosecutors over various terrorist-related activities this year, the Federal Prosecutor's Office told the dpa news agency. It added that 1,000 cases involved radical Islamists.
The figures were described as an "enormous increase" from the previous year, when only around 250 similar cases were recorded, with 200 being linked to radical Islam. The Federal Prosecutor's Office did not elaborate on the reasons for the significant rise, and provided no details about the nature of the activities that led to the initiation of the criminal investigations.
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Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson
Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson
It is the first such statement of the politician from the ruling Sweden's Socialist Working Party, whose coalition government together with the Green Party, welcomed over 163,000 asylum seekers in 2015.
"The integration [of immigrants] does not go as it should. We had a problem with it before the autumn of 2015 (when Sweden accepted a wave of migrants). For me it is obvious that we cannot accept more asylum seekers than we can integrate. It will not be good either for people who come here or for the whole society," said the Swedish Finance minister Magdalena Andersson.
According to the politician, people who come to Sweden "face a very tense situation" while greater housing and education opportunities exist in other European countries. "I think these people [immigrants] have a better chance if they seek asylum in another country," Andersson admitted.
Comment: Better to realize it late than never. But really, did they not think seriously about this at the time? Sweden already had experience with the difficulty of integrating tens of thousands of Balkan refugees in the 1990s.
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Victory over Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) was declared in late July. Five months on from its recapture, Iraq's once-second-largest city Mosul remains a mass grave with the overwhelming smell of decay still befouling the air.
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Erica Garner (c.) is in ICU in a Brooklyn hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Erica Garner (c.) is in ICU in a Brooklyn hospital after suffering a heart attack.
Erica Garner, whose father died in 2014 when NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold on Staten Island, was on life support in ICU in a Brooklyn hospital, the family said.
Comment:
- Father of six dies after New York police place him in chokehold for selling untaxed cigarettes
- Eric Garner NYPD chokehold case ruled a homicide
- Video shows cop sarcastically waving to cameraman after choking Eric Garner
- Blaming the victim: Congressman says Eric Garner's death is his own fault for being fat
- New York hospital that treated Eric Garner to pay family a measly $1 million
- FBI agents, prosecutors to be replaced in Eric Garner probe in rare shake-up
- Internal charges laid against NYPD sergeant in connection to Eric Garner chokehold death
- 2 years since cops killed Eric Garner - so far only person facing punishment is man who filmed It
- We have an Erica Garner issue': Clinton campaign ripped for talk of Eric Garner's death
- $10 million suit filed against New York City by man who filmed fatal arrest of Eric Garner
- Ramsey Orta imprisoned on trumped up charges after filming Eric Garner's death, rat poison now being found in food at his prison
- #ICantBreathe - Comedian Jon Stewart on Eric Garner grand jury decision: 'The idea that we live in a society, much less a post-racial society, is a joke'
- Minority Congressional staffers walk out in wake of grand jury decisions
- Paul Craig Roberts: Goon thug cops murder at will - and get away with it
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Vatican gendarmes attempt to block a topless activist of women's rights group Femen, who tries to reach the Nativity scene in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican December 25, 2017
Vatican gendarmes attempt to block a topless activist of women's rights group Femen, who tries to reach the Nativity scene in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican December 25, 2017
The woman can be seen rushing to the manger in the center of the square and attempting to grab the Jesus figurine, Reuters photos show. However, a guard blocked the activist, who was quickly covered with a black coat.
At least four people were killed as a bus plunged into a pedestrian underpass near a metro station in western Moscow
At least four people were killed and eleven others were wounded as the bus plunged into a pedestrian underpass near a metro station in western Moscow, a source in the city emergencies services said.
The bus plunged into a pedestrian underpass near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station at 2.50 p.m. Moscow Time when a large number of people were there.
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The bus plunged into a pedestrian underpass near the Slavyansky Bulvar metro station at 2.50 p.m. Moscow Time when a large number of people were there.
Comment: A dozen others were injured in the crash.
Witnesses told RT that the bus, which was about to run its usual route, suddenly accelerated and ran across the sidewalk and right into the underground passage. The passengers of the vehicle were not harmed in the incident, one of them said.The driver has been identified as 58-year-old Viktor Tikhonov:
Reportedly injured in the incident, Tikhonov was taken to hospital where he was questioned by police.However, one of the passengers claims the driver was acting with malicious intent:
"There were three people on the bus and I had to wait 15 minutes to resume driving," Mash quotes the driver as saying. However, another bus stopped behind Tikhonov's and he wanted to move the vehicle to give way to it.
"When I took the handbrake off, the bus drove off. I did everything to stop it, but it wouldn't stop. The vehicle is operated with an automatic stick, so I could do nothing," he added.
Rejecting speculation that Tikhonov might have been intoxicated at the time of the incident, his son, Aleksey, said that his father never drank at work. "We had breakfast early in the morning. My father wasn't stressed or tired," Aleksey Tikhonov said, as cited by Mash.
According to the driver's supervisor, he might have fallen asleep and pushed the gas pedal accidentally.
The supervisor also told RT that the driver had started his shift at 1:30pm on Monday, about two hours before the crash. He also said that the driver had worked normal shifts of 11 hours for the past two days. The director of the bus company is at the scene of the accident, he added.
The Moscow Region branch of the Transport Ministry said that the bus was in working order before the beginning of the shift on Monday. No anomalies in the condition of the driver had been established either, it added.
The witness told the Russian media that he was sitting next to the driver and "saw how he did it on purpose." The incident occurred at around 14:50 local time, the passenger recalled, adding that he asked the driver when the bus was going to move out and received the reply: "I'll move at 15:00."
"He seemed calm," the man said of the driver. "Suddenly, for no reason he stepped on the gas and drove out into the sidewalk... I was surprised, there was a bus ahead of him, which he could've driven into if he wanted to stop, or the trees. But he deliberately drove [into the underpass]," he added.
"He drove into the underpass, right there... ramming people... there were so many people under the bus," the witness said, adding that the five or six passenger on the bus, including himself, were unharmed.
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According to a recent analysis by the Columbia Journalism Review, multiple journalists have been detained this year simply for asking students questions on campus.
One such confrontation took place in August of this year, when freelance journalist Jeff Bachner was handcuffed by a security officer at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, before being released with no charge.
Just a few days later, the report details another detention of a freelance journalist who attempted to ask students questions about Confederate statues on campus. In that case, J.B. Nicholas was handcuffed by Bronx Community College security for trespassing, though charges against him were ultimately dropped.
Comment: But the whole world does have to change to accommodate you, according to the far left. Or you're a Nazi.