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From PressTV
Syrian army liberates key area in Homs, edges closer to Palmyra
Syrian forces have edged closer to retaking the ancient city of Palmyra after establishing full control over new areas in the central province of Homs and inflicting heavy losses on Daesh terrorists, new reports say.
The army recaptured the mountainous al-Hail district and surrounding areas on Tuesday and launched a clean-up operation afterwards, Lebanon’s al-Ahed news website said.
The liberation of the area, which overlooks Palmyra (Tadmur in Arabic), paves the way for retaking the historic city which fell to Daesh last May.
“The regime forces are now two kilometers (a little more than a mile) away on the south side and five kilometers (three miles) away on the west side,” Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is affiliated to foreign-backed Syria opposition, said.
Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has seen shocking scenes of pillage and looting by Daesh of some of its valuable archaeological areas over the past months.
Syrian sources also said two Daesh ringleaders had been killed in a Russian airstrike in Raqqah. They identified them as Abu-Hammam al-Tunisi and Abu Hamzah al-Ansari.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Turkish president says his country is ‘ready to cooperate with Israel against terrorism’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country is “ready to cooperate with Israel against terrorism.”
Erdogan made the statement Wednesday in a telephone conversation with Reuven Rivlin, the Israel president’s office said in a statement.
Rivlin called Erdogan to thank him for his letter of condolence following Sunday’s terror attack in Istanbul in which three Israeli citizens were killed, and many others injured. He also thanked the Turkish president for taking care of the injured Israelis and for his assistance in repatriating the injured and the bodies of the victims.
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From PressTV
Yemeni ceasefire to take effect on April 10, says UN envoy
The UN special envoy to Yemen has announced a ceasefire will soon take effect in the impoverished country that has been on the verge of famine as a result of the year-long military aggression by Saudi Arabia.
“The parties to the conflict have agreed to a nationwide cessation of hostilities beginning April 10 at midnight in advance of the upcoming round of the peace talks, which will take place on April 18 in Kuwait,” Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said during a media briefing in New York on Wednesday.
From PressTV
Saudi warplanes hit northwestern Yemen, killing more civilians
Saudi warplanes conducted a new series of airstrikes on northwestern Yemen Wednesday, killing at least four people, local media reports say.
Yemen’s al-Masirah television said the Saudi jets bombed parts of Hudaydah Province as the kingdom’s aerial attacks on its impoverished southern neighbor have continued nonstop since they started on March 26, 2015.
On Wednesday, the northwestern province of Jawf, the southwestern province of Ta’izz and the northern province of Sana’a were also targeted in similar strikes.
On Tuesday, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch called on the United States, Britain and France – the largest arms suppliers to the regime in Riyadh – to stop arms deliveries to Saudi Arabia.
Amnesty says the arms exports to Riyadh have contributed to the Saudi crimes against Yemeni civilians and have given rise to a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world’s most impoverished nation.
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From Russia Today
Denmark may strip radical imams of citizenship
Published time: 23 Mar, 2016 20:30
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Denmark might soon be able to strip radicalized imams of citizenship. The proposal is expected to be supported by a majority in parliament.
The initiative comes from the anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, and has received backing from the ruling Liberal Party, the opposition Social Democrats and the Conservative party.
“The Constitution says that one must practice his faith as long as it is not contrary to morals or disturbing to the public order,” Martin Henriksen, Danish People’s Party’s spokesman told the Berlingske newspaper on Monday.
“When imams endorse or recommend stoning or when an imam tells a woman subjected to violence by her husband, that that’s okay, then it [may be considered] subversive speech that disturbs the public order. Some of these imams are Danish citizens, and we think we should deprive them of their citizenship,” he said.
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From The Daily Mail
‘Daddy don’t let them take me away’: Harrowing moment girl, 6, is taken from her home of five years by social workers because she is ‘1.5% Native American’ and her adoptive parents are white
- Lexi, a six-year-old with one-and-a-half per cent Choctaw blood has been removed from her foster parents of five years
- Protesters tried to stop government officials from taking the child from her foster parents by spending the night outside the home
- Summer and Rusty Page, Lexi’s foster parents, are not Native American
- Due to the ‘Indian Child Welfare Act’, Lexi is supposed to only live with other Native American families
- Summer and Rusty, from Santa Claritra, California, have been fighting for two years to adopt the child
- The Choctaw Tribe has decided to place Lexi with a person in Utah who is not Native American and does not live on a reservation
Social workers seized a hysterical six-year-old girl from the home of her white foster family on Monday because she is part Native American.
The child, Lexi, sobbed, clinging to her foster father Rusty Page as he reluctantly fought through a crowd to hand the child over to the Department of Children and Families in Santa Clarita.
In a disturbing video from KTLA, Lexi screamed, begging Rusty, ‘don’t let them take me away’, as she was removed from her family.
As Lexi was placed in the back of a black car with government workers, her foster mother Summer Page burst from the home screaming ‘I love you, Lexi’.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli government minister blames Brussels terror on ‘eating chocolate’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli government minister blamed Belgian officials for “eating chocolate” instead of paying attention to security against terror.
“If in Belgium they continue eating chocolate and enjoying life, and continue to appear as great democrats and liberals, and do not decide that some Muslims in their country are organizing terror, they won’t be able to fight them,” Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday in an interview with Israel Radio. Katz also serves as the country’s transportation minister.
His remarks came a day after twin bombings at Zaventem Airport and at a metro station in central Brussels killed at least 34 people and injured dozens.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pew study: Israel only country where men pray more than women
NEW YORK (JTA) — Israel is the only country in the world where a higher percentage of men say they engage in daily prayer than women, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
The study, which draws on data from more than 2,500 censuses and surveys taken over the last few years in 192 countries, found that women generally are more religious than men. An estimated 83.4 percent of women worldwide identify with a faith group, compared to 79.9 percent among men, according to the study released Tuesday and titled “The Gender Gap in Religion Around the World.”
Women in Christian countries report more weekly attendance at religious services than men, but the opposite is true in majority Muslim countries and in Israel. This is due in large part to religious norms that prioritize male worship participation in Muslim and Orthodox Jewish societies, the study found.
READ: Pew survey: 57% of US Jews eat pork, Torah study grows
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From Russia Today
‘North African’ stranger’s Metro kiss on lips is not sexual harassment, police tell Vienna woman
Published time: 23 Mar, 2016 09:16
Subway passengers use escalators during the rush hour at the subway station in Vienna © Leonhard Foeger / Reuters
A young woman who was kissed by a stranger on the Vienna Metro on her way to work was shocked to learn from police officers that a kiss wasn’t an act of sexual harassment.
Iryna L., a 27-year-old manager, said she was on her way to work on Monday. Suddenly a man “of North African origin and approximately 25 years old” approached her and started stroking her hand. When she asked him to stop, the man kissed her.
“It happened very quickly. He sat near me in the full carriage and stroked my hand. I cried out ‘stop’ and moved myself to another seat, he tapped me on the shoulder, pulled me to him and kissed me on the mouth,” she said, as cited by Austrian Heute newspaper.
Iryna said she hit the attacker with her bag and he ran away.
However, the young woman saw little help from other people on the train.
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