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While the world was looking elsewhere: Israel arrested 1363 Palestinians during the coronavirus pandemic

Quds News Network
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 21:29 UTC

The Israeli army has arrested 2330 Palestinians during the first half of 2020, including 1363 during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a joint report by human rights watchdogs.

The report added that since the start of this year, the occupation state has arrested 304 children, 70 women, and 565 under administrative detention.

The watchdogs (the Committee of Prisoners and Former Prisoners Affairs, the Palestinian Prisoners' Association, Addamir, and Wadi Hilweh Information Center) stated that the total number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails has been estimated at nearly 4700 prisoners until the end of June, including 41 women, 160 children, and 365 administrative detainees.

In June only, Israeli forces arrested 469 Palestinians, including 211 from Jerusalem, 45 from Ramallah and Bireh, 33 from Hebron, 36 from Jenin, 43 from Bethlehem, 32 from Nablus, 27 from Tulkarm, 18 from Qalqilya, 11 from Tubas, 4 from Salfit, 8 from Jericho, and one from Gaza.

Most arrests took place in January with 496 arrests, while the Palestinian capital city had the highest arrests' number with 1057 arrests, including 57 women.

Comment: See also: Israel arrested over 5,500 Palestinians in 2019 - Annual occupation report

Ghislaine Maxwell is secretly married, refuses to reveal spouse's name

Jack Salo and Lia Eustachewich
New York Post
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 21:32 UTC

Ghislaine Maxwell is secretly married — and refusing to reveal her husband's name, prosecutors said this week at the accused madam's bail hearing.

The bombshell detail was divulged Tuesday as Manhattan prosecutors accused her of purposely hiding the extent of her wealth.

"In addition to failing to describe in any way the absence of proposed co-signers of a bond, the defendant also makes no mention whatsoever about the financial circumstances or assets of her spouse whose identity she declined to provide to Pretrial Services," Assistant US Attorney Alison Moe told Manhattan federal Judge Alison Nathan during a video conference.

Moe added, "There's no information about who will be co-signing this bond or their assets, and no details whatsoever."

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Seven ships catch fire in Iranian port of Bushehr - latest in string of suspicious incidents

RT
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 15:08 UTC

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Firefighters combatting a blaze at the Delvar Kashti Bushehr boat factory in the Iranian city of Bushehr.

Follow RT on A major fire broke out at a boat factory in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr on Wednesday. At least seven ships have been damaged by the blaze, according to local media reports.

Footage circulating online shows firefighters battling the blaze on the pier, while some of the damaged ships emit thick black smoke.

The vessels appear to be small civilian fishing boats, another video suggests. The fire produced a large smoke column visible from other parts of the city.

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Clashes erupt at anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem

Sputnik
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 01:57 UTC

Clashes between Israeli police and protesters, angry at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his continued hold on power, broke out Tuesday outside his residence in Jerusalem, media said.

Thousands gathered on Balfour Street to demand the veteran politician's resignation, according to the Jerusalem Post newspaper. Some protesters reportedly carried torches.

A spokesperson for the Jerusalem police could not confirm reports of violence. The police said that several roads near the protest site had been blocked and drivers were urged to consider alternative routes.

Comment: The anti-gov riots in Jerusalem reported demonstrators throwing eggs, vandalizing shops and blocking the Jerusalem light rail. Netanyahu may be silver-tongued with other leaders, but many in Israel are not taken in!

COVID-19: Response by scientists, medical experts to German government to censor its own report

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, et. al.
Global Research
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:50 UTC

Response by Scientists and Medical Experts to Germany's Ministry of Interior Decision to Censor its Own Report

The report was an initiative of the Interior ministry's Unit KM4, a department responsible for the "Protection of critical infrastructures".

This is also where the German official turned whistleblower, Stephen Kohn, worked, and from where he leaked it to the media.

The authors of the report issued a joint press release on May 11th, berating the government for ignoring expert advise, and asking for the interior minister to officially comment upon the experts joint statement."...

The German government officially scorned the 93 page report, claiming it was an unauthorized opinion of one government employee with possible involvement of "third parties" outside the government.

Decapitated, dismembered body of tech CEO found in New York City apartment

Joe Marino, Jason Beeferman, Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
New York Post
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 17:00 UTC

The body of a decapitated, dismembered tech CEO was found inside a Lower East Side apartment on Tuesday afternoon — sorted in plastic bags right next to a power saw, sources told The Post.

Police came upon the grisly scene shortly after 3:30 p.m., after a cousin of the dead man requested a welfare check at the man's East Houston Street building and called police, the sources said.

An electric saw was found near the body, which was described as that of a 33-year-old man. The victim's arms and legs below the knees were removed, and body parts were found in plastic bags found in the apartment, the sources said.

Police sources believe the victim was Fahim Saleh, a venture capitalist and CEO of the Nigeria-based motorbike startup Gokada.

Captured Syrian militants tell media they are US-trained, sent to spy on Russian, Iranian & Syrian facilities

RT
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:06 UTC

Three gunmen caught by the Syrian Army have told Russian media they were part of a US-backed militant group and had been sent on a spying mission in the Raqqa governorate.

The detainees were shown to journalists near the city of Palmyra, where they were delivered by the Syrian army. The three men claimed they belonged to the Revolutionary Commando Army, a militia group based around the US base in Al-Tanf in southeastern Syria.

According to the detainees, they left Al-Tanf on motorcycles and rode north for a reconnaissance mission in the Mansoura subdistrict of the Raqqa governorate. Upon reaching their destination they were supposed to look for Syrian, Russian and Iranian facilities.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for possible infection

Jacob Pramuk
CNBC
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 05:23 UTC

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Tuesday for a possible infection, according to a spokeswoman for the court.

The justice, 87, received treatment at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore after experiencing fever and chills. She underwent a procedure to clean a bile duct stent and will stay in the hospital for a "few days," court spokeswoman Kathleen Arberg said in a statement.

"The Justice is resting comfortably and will stay in the hospital for a few days to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment," she said.

Ginsburg, the oldest Supreme Court justice, has endured a range of health issues in recent years. In January, she said she was "cancer-free" after undergoing treatment for what was likely pancreatic cancer last year.

The year before, she underwent treatment for cancerous growths on her lungs.

Falling fertility rates to trigger 'major shifts' in economic power, research predicts

Sam Meredith
CNBC
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00 UTC

The analysis says that improvements in access to modern contraception and the education of girls and women could underpin "widespread" and "sustained" declines in global fertility.

It means that, in the absence of liberal immigration policies, 183 of 195 countries on the planet will not be able to maintain current populations by the end of the century.
Professor Ibrahim Abubakar of University College London, who was not involved in the research, said if the findings of the study were "even half accurate" then migration would become "a necessity for all nations and not an option."

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People with colorful dresses selling and buying goods in a street market in Osogbo, Nigeria at dusk.

Declining fertility rates will likely mean almost every country has shrinking populations by the end of the century, according to a new study, triggering "major shifts" in global economic power.

A new report in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, published Tuesday, expects the global population to peak at 9.7 billion by the year 2064, with the number of people across the globe forecast to fall back to 8.8 billion by 2100.

Comment: How far can we trust these models in a unpredictable fast changing world?

Supreme Court clears way for first federal executions in 17 years

Phil Helsel
NBC News
Tue, 14 Jul 2020 10:39 UTC

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A guard tower sits along a security fence at the Federal Correctional Complex at Terre Haute, Indiana, on Tuesday.

The 5-4 ruling says that federal executions may proceed. The last time an execution occurred at federal level was in 2003.

The Supreme Court early Tuesday ruled that the first federal executions in 17 years can be carried out.

The justices ruled 5-4 hours after a U.S. District Judge preliminary blocked four inmates from being executed.

Daniel Lewis Lee was originally scheduled to receive a lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital at 4 p.m. ET Monday, but a federal judge's order prevented his execution.

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Society's Child

While the world was looking elsewhere: Israel arrested 1363 Palestinians during the coronavirus pandemic

Ghislaine Maxwell is secretly married, refuses to reveal spouse's name

Seven ships catch fire in Iranian port of Bushehr - latest in string of suspicious incidents

Clashes erupt at anti-Netanyahu protest in Jerusalem

COVID-19: Response by scientists, medical experts to German government to censor its own report

Decapitated, dismembered body of tech CEO found in New York City apartment

Captured Syrian militants tell media they are US-trained, sent to spy on Russian, Iranian & Syrian facilities

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg hospitalized for possible infection

Falling fertility rates to trigger 'major shifts' in economic power, research predicts

Supreme Court clears way for first federal executions in 17 years

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