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Mayor David Navarro of Clarin, Misamis Occidental, was killed and five others injured in the attack, including a police officer who was shot in the foot.
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Mayor David Navarro of Clarin, Misamis Occidental, was killed and five others injured in the attack, including a police officer who was shot in the foot.
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According to him, more than 35 official events and 1,500 meetings took place in Sochi, the resort city where the summit was held.
"The total amount of agreements sealed as of this moment was more than eight hundred billion rubles ($12 billion)," Kobyakov said, adding that the meetings are continuing.
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Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion says the move is aimed at making events ‘more inclusive’ and accessible to all
Sabbatical Officers Roisin McCallion says the move is aimed at making events ‘more inclusive’ and accessible to all
They are instead being told to use 'jazz hands', where they wave their hands in the air.
The motion to 'mandate the encouragement of silent clapping' was successfully passed by the university's student union officers, following their first meeting of the year on Tuesday.
It will come apply at student union events, and if successful, rolled out to other societies and events.
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For my part, the answer is 'yes' and 'no.'
I think that Her Majesty, aged 93 and long life to her, will be on her throne for longer than Northern Ireland will be in the United Kingdom.
The six counties of the north east of Ireland were unnaturally torn from the Irish motherland a century ago, but its status was always historically speaking, doomed.
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A box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil."
A box of fentanyl marked "Know what this is???!!! It is evil."
On January 18, three dealers busted in April 2017 were jailed for a total of 43 years for selling 2,800 packages of fentanyl and 635g of pure carfentanil over the darknet from their storage unit in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Yet, in the nearly two years between their arrest and jailing, the expected US-style fentanyl explosion has so far failed to ignite. The drug has a growing presence in Europe, but that's still nowhere near the levels seen in north America.
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A private flight was reportedly made this week from Israel to Saudi Arabia with a stop-over in Jordan, sparking speculation that high-profile Israeli officials could be on board.
A Bombardier Challenger 604 jet departed from Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv and arrived at an airport in Amman, Jordan on Tuesday, where it stopped for two minutes before heading towards Saudi Arabia, according to security reporter Yossi Melman.
"A mysterious flight to Saudi Arabia," Melman, a contributor for the newspapers Maariv and The Jerusalem Post, tweeted on Wednesday. "The Challenger took off from Ben Gurion Airport last night, and left for Amman, where it stopped for two minutes to launder the flight, then took off Riyadh. After a 55-minute stop-over at the Saudi airport's runway, the plane returned to Ben Gurion Airport."
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According to ICE officials, four executives at the sheet metal KSO MetalFab Inc. manufacturing plant in Streamwood, Illinois — a suburb of Chicago — have been charged with one count each of knowingly harboring illegal aliens and one count each of knowingly hiring illegal aliens.
The four executives include 81-year-old Dora Kuzelka, 62-year-old Kenneth Kuzelka, 56-year-old Kari Kuzelka, and 58-year-old Keith Kuzelka. ICE officials allege that the Kuzelkas knowingly hired at least 18 illegal aliens.
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"Israel has ignored warnings by the United Nations that Gaza is about to become uninhabitable, acting as if Palestinians there can be caged, starved and abused indefinitely. Now crises are unfolding on all fronts - social, economic, political and humanitarian - and Israel is running out of time to find solutions." - AMEU (September-October 2019)The only way Israelis can be made to sit up and take note of the disaster unfolding next door in Gaza, it seems, is when they fear the fallout may spill out of the tiny coastal enclave and engulf them too. Environmental experts from two Israeli universities issued a report in June warning that the imminent collapse of Gaza's water, sewage and electricity infrastructure would soon rebound on Israel.
Gideon Bromberg, the Israeli director of EcoPeace Middle East, which commissioned the report, told journalists:
"Without urgent, vigorous action, plagues and infections will break out that could cost a great many lives, both in Israel and in Gaza, and no fence or Iron Dome [Israel's missile interception system] can thwart them."Israel's liberal Haaretz newspaper paraphrased another of Bromberg's comments:
"If something isn't done, the upshot could be political horror in the form of hundreds of thousands of Gazans fleeing for their lives toward Israel - for fear of catching disease."
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Former World Vision employee Muhammed al-Halabi at district court in Beersheva, Israel.
Former World Vision employee Muhammed al-Halabi at district court in Beersheva, Israel.
The 41-year-old aid worker, Muhammed al-Halabi, was arrested in June 2016 while working for World Vision, a Christian humanitarian group, charged with funneling kickbacks to Hamas and its armed wing. For nearly four years, however, Halabi has been denied his proper day in court, instead forced to endure an endless series of stop-go proceedings in which key witnesses are barred from testifying.
His most recent hearing on Wednesday was no different, quickly hitting a dead end soon after it began. Halabi's brother, Hamed, told Middle East Eye:
"Today's hearing was cancelled shortly after it started because the witnesses were not present. The prosecution then threatened that any witnesses who come from Gaza to give their testimony will be detained.The Israeli government has denied travel permits to crucial witnesses in the former charity worker's case, preventing them from leaving Gaza to give testimony in Israeli courts. Halabi's lawyer, Maher Hanna, says that guarantees he cannot receive a fair trial.
"They do not want anyone to prove them wrong. All the eyewitnesses and even the officials at World Vision gave proof that he was innocent. But this is not what the prosecution is looking for."
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Thousands of Palestinians queue up to cross into Israel and begin their work day as the sun begins to rise, at Eyal Border crossing, in the city of Qalqilya, West Bank on 1 May 2019
Thousands of Palestinians queue up to cross into Israel and begin their work day as the sun begins to rise, at Eyal Border crossing, in the city of Qalqilya, West Bank on 1 May 2019
The workers make up 33 per cent of all Palestinian labourers in Israel, the paper added.
According to the report, workers paid upwards of $400 a month to get a permit, but field activists in the Israeli rights groups Kav La'Oved and Machsom Watch said they "heard of higher amounts being charged for each permit."
Comment: If this new policy among schools of higher learning hasn't convinced one yet that we have entered a new bizzarro world, then nothing will. And just note that the above case at Oxford University (of all places) isn't just an anomaly: