Tens of thousands of protesters have held a massive rally in Morocco's port city of Casablanca to show their anger at Israel's aggressive policies toward the Palestinians.The protesters marched down the streets of Morocco's commercial hub to denounce the policies of the Tel Aviv regime.

The massive rally was organized by a Moroccan Islamic association. Members of political parties also left behind their differences and attended the demonstration to show their support for the Palestinian cause.The protesters carried placards demanding an end to the ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinians, and also called on the international community to boycott Israeli products.

The angry demonstrators also burned the flags of Israel to show their fury. They also chanted slogans such as "Death to Israel," and "We will sacrifice our soul and our blood to you, Al-Aqsa."

A number of participants were clad in attire in the colors of the Palestinian flag to show their support for the Palestinian people. The participants also vowed to continue their demonstrations in support of the Palestinians.
Tensions in the occupied territories escalated after the Tel Aviv regime in August imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Palestinians are also angry at aggressive Israeli settlers, who frequently storm al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.

Nearly 60 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds of others injured since the Israeli regime began a harsh crackdown on Palestinians in early October. At least ten Israelis have died as a result of attacks over the past few weeks.

Treating alcohol and drug withdrawal is cheap and easy. So why are so many inmates dying of it?

It's been more than a year since 32-year-old David Stojcevski died in a Michigan jail cell after spending more than two weeks in acute withdrawal from benzodiazepine medication and methadone. But the grueling details of his ordeal are just now coming to light as his family speaks publicly for the first time about their pending wrongful death lawsuit.

According to the complaint, which was first reported on last month, Stojcevski lost 50 pounds in just 16 days as Macomb County Jail officials repeatedly refused to give him medications he had been legally prescribed before entering the facility to serve a 30-day sentence for reckless driving. Video taken of his cell during his confinement shows that despite being clearly in distress, Stojcevski was largely ignored by corrections officers and staff from the private firm contracted to provide medical services at the jail.

Two-thirds of likely voters in the United States say the country is on the "wrong track", according to a new poll released by Rasmussen Reports on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Only 27 percent of likely voters say the United States is heading in the right direction, according to the poll, while 65 percent think the country is on a wrong course.

A New Mexico man who had been watching TV's The Walking Dead told authorities he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie.

Grants police spokesman Moses Marquez said Sunday that 23-year-old Christopher Paquin was beaten and that 23-year-old Damon Perry is being held on a murder charge.

Perry's attorney, Michael E. Calligan, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Officers were called Thursday afternoon to an apartment complex where Perry was allegedly wielding a knife.

They found Paquin's body inside an apartment and maintenance workers detaining Perry.

Five people were killed and eight others injured on Monday when an explosion ripped through two trucks carrying fireworks in the Jordanian capital, a civil defence spokesperson said.

General Farid al-Sharaa said two trucks loaded with containers filled with fireworks exploded in a parking lot at the customs department in southern Amman.

Five people were killed and eight others suffered from burns, he said.

The explosion also sparked a fire that ripped through the parking lot and damaged a dozen vehicles, Sharaa said. Firefighters were working to put out the blaze.

A Christian website that gives advice to couples about how to live by the Bible's "gender roles" recently advised men that they should not look at their wives' faces during sex if she engaged in intercourse "begrudgingly."

In a column on the BiblicalGenderRoles.com website last week, a writer going by the name Larry Solomon argued that men "should not tolerate refusal."

According to the Christian columnist, women who did not like having sex with their husbands should "fake it until she makes it."

But Solomon noted that coercing wives into sex did not always result in an enjoyable experience for the husband.

"You also need to realize that whether your wife knows it or not she needs to have sex too," he opined. "If you don't have sex with your wife at regular intervals, even sometimes when she is not in the mood but consents anyway, you will open yourself to temptation."

"Focus your eyes on her body, not her face. Focus on the visual pleasure you receive from looking at her body and physical pleasure you receive from being inside your wife," Solomon recommended. "You want to connect with her physically AND emotionally during sex. But your wife is the one refusing to connect with you emotionally, so you have to concentrate 100% on the physical side."

Solomon said that men should think of unwilling wives like Medusa, the mythical Greek monster who could turn men to stone if they looked upon her face.

"I know you love your wife, most men love their wives. But sin is ugly," the writer remarked. "Your beautiful bride's face becomes ugly during this sinful time that she is grudgingly giving you sex as she grimaces wanting you to 'just hurry up and get it over with'."

"So like the men who could not look at Medusa's face otherwise they would be killed, realize that if you look on your wife's face when she is displaying a sinful attitude toward sex it will kill your sexual pleasure and may actually make it much more difficult for you to achieve the physical connection and release that you need," he concluded. "Sometimes we have to work around the sinful behavior of our wives and this will be one of those times."

As a little girl, Kim Phuc loved to climb up trees. After the South Vietnamese military dropped napalm on her village, Trang Bang, on June 8, 1972, Phuc's skin was partly destroyed and she was no longer able to play many of her favorite games.

Forty years later, the woman who was famously photographed by AP photojournalist Nick Ut, and now lives in Canada, is undergoing laser treatments at Miami's Dermatology Institute. The treatments will continue for the next seven months.

The Denver Police Department arrested 10 housing advocates and tore down a set of small, single-occupant dwellings they were attempting to build in the city's Sustainability Park. According to KMGH Channel 7, the activist group Denver Homeless Out Loud came to the park on Saturday and began to build "tiny homes," small dwellings intended as free housing for the homeless.

The group is protesting the sale of the land to a private developer which plans to build an upscale apartment complex. "Today hundreds of people came out to Sustainability Park in the Curtis Park neighborhood of Denver to build a tiny home village where three urban farms are being displaced to build an apartment development," the group said in a statement.

"The group, led by Denver Homeless Out Loud and composed of houseless people and supporters, had been constructing tiny homes and trying to find a location for the village for over a year," the statement explained. "But due to zoning and code constraints they have not been able to find a legal place to put the houses."

According to activists, the Denver Housing Authority eliminated hundreds of low-income housing units to create the park. For a time, the land was farmed by a group known as the Urban Farming Collective, but now the land is being sold to a developer, which will construct "multifamily housing that will support gentrification in Curtis Park" and drive rents upward and out of reach of current residents.

A video is rapidly going viral of a school resource officer in South Carolina choking and slamming a high school student who was sitting at her desk.

The incident took place on Monday at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, and was captured on camera by two different students from different angles.

"The student was told she was under arrest for disturbing school and given instructions which she again refused," Sheriff Leon Lott told WIS-TV. "The video then shows the student resisting and being arrested by the SRO."

The videos captured the teenage girl sitting at her desk in her classroom when Officer Ben Fields approached and grabbed her before wrapping his arm around her throat. The desk flips over as he throws her to the ground and out of view of the camera.

Giorgos Taktikos was just 5 years old when he and his family began their long journey to the Sinai Desert by boarding a small boat in the middle of the night and leaving behind their native Chios.

Today, at the age of 78, Taktikos is following history being written the other way round. As a former refugee, he is pained to observe the boatloads of people fleeing the Middle East and reaching Greek shores, while his mind races back to his own long and difficult journey into the unknown.

A native of the Chiot village of Kourounia, Taktikos was one of over 30,000 Greeks who left several eastern Aegean islands during the German wartime occupation, some seeking refuge in Syria, others reaching South Africa, in an effort to escape hunger and war.