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LONDON: Senior Conservative Party politician Lord Mohamed Iltaf Sheikh has won a defamation case against Associated Newspapers Limited, publishers of the Daily Mail and Mail Online. The case pertained to an article published in August 2018 accusing him of appearing at a hate conference held in Tunisia with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, for hosting in the House of Lords the well-known Pakistani religious leader Muhammad Hassam Haseeb-ur-Rehman, as well as allegedly supporting a Hamas leader. The article titled EXCLUSIVE: Top Tory peers appearance at Corbyns hate conference in Tunisia comes after YEARS of rubbing shoulders with Islamists, hate preachers and Holocaust deniers accused Lord Sheikh of mixing with extremist, Holocaust deniers and hate preachers and focused on his attendance at a conference in Tunisia in 2014 where it had earlier been widely reported that Jeremy Corbyn had participated in a wreath-laying ceremony
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admin | August 2, 2020
Bari Weiss on The View. Photo: Screenshot. With her recent resignation from The New York Times, Bari Weiss joined a small but distinguished group of American Jews who have resigned in protest from positions of stature, choosing to sacrifice their self-interest for the sake of principle.
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admin | August 2, 2020
Here is a sampling of the weeks events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after publication. The multimedia artist Tony Oursler explores how technology touches humanity through pieces that blend video, painting and collage
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admin | August 2, 2020
Twitter has finally booted David Duke, a former KKK grand wizard and founder of the KKK revival group the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan. Why has it taken years for a company whose policies explicitly bar individuals who affiliate with and promote violent extremist groups? Gizmodo wondered about this earlier this month and asked Twitter, to which the company replied that Duke is not currently a member of the KKK and has distanced himself from the organisation publicly.
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admin | August 2, 2020
Saint Sophia, Hagia Sophia, the Church of the Great Wisdom, Aya Sofia. There have been so many forms to the pristine rose.
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admin | August 2, 2020
Melbourne aged care home Epping Gardens, where 85 residents and 35 staff have tested positive for Covid-19, is in chaos, a relative of one of the infected residents has told Guardian Australia. Nobody has the answer, but she cant go back to Epping Gardens, said Carla Gangi, whose 89-year-old grandmother Concetta Mineo was hospitalised on Tuesday. Guardian Australia has learned that an additional 11 Epping Gardens residents were to be sent to hospital on Thursday, in addition to two who were hospitalised on Wednesday due to coronavirus.
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admin | August 2, 2020
Mary, 20, was pregnant when the coronavirus reached Papua New Guinea. Four weeks after the country went into lockdown, doctors refused to treat her because of the closure, even after she collapsed in the clinic. She was suffering from pregnancy toxemia and her fetus died in utero
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admin | August 2, 2020
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the small community of Sephardic Jews that lives on in the Greek city of Thessaloniki is looking to its past to help safeguard its future.
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Image by youtube David Galante BUENOS AIRES (JTA) It took 50 years for David Galante to begin talking about his experience at Auschwitz. Born to a Sephardic family in Rhodes in 1925, Galante studied in a Jewish school as a child, learning Italian, French and Hebrew
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Israels Health Ministry will increase the number of worshipers permitted in synagogues ahead of Tisha BAv, which begins on Wednesday evening, the heads of the ultra-Orthodox political parties announced on Monday.
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