Giorno: 18 Agosto 2021

Gantz, Lapid thank Palestinian firefighters for helping battle Jerusalem mega-fire

Read More Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz both thanked the Palestinian Authority for assisting Israeli firefighters to gain control over a massive fire near Jerusalem on Tuesday. “I want to thank the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Mahmoud Abbas, for his initiative to send the firefighters who came to […]

Seek and ye shall find Byzantine activity in Tel Aviv suburb 1,500 years ago

Read More An apparently richly decorated farmstead from the Byzantine period has been found in Ramat Hasharon, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday. The main reason it hadn’t been found earlier is that apparently nobody ever dug in the vicinity of that Tel Aviv suburb before, archaeologists explain. But the norm in Israel is […]

Arab Israeli lawmaker files complaint saying soldier attacked him in Hebron

Read More Ahmad Tibi, a senior member of the largely Arab Joint List party, has filed a complaint against an Israeli soldier who prevented him and party colleagues from entering a street in Hebron to protest renovations at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims. Al-Sahla Street in the […]

New Zealand Reports 4 More COVID-19 Cases as Delta Variant Spreads

Read More A deserted Devonport main street as Auckland wakes to level four lockdown and four more cases in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 18, 2021. (Fiona Goodall/Getty Images) WELLINGTON—New Zealand said on Wednesday that an additional four cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the country overnight, including an Auckland hospital worker. That takes […]

China Holds Assault Drills Near Southern Taiwan

Read More China carried out assault drills near Taiwan on Aug. 17, with fighter jets, anti-submarine aircraft, and combat ships exercising off the southwest and southeast of the island in what the country’s armed forces said was a response to “external interference.” In a brief statement that was released on Tuesday, the People’s Liberation Army’s […]

What South Africans have seen while working in Kabul during the takeover

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Palliative care is the opposite of giving up

Read More Imagine there was specialised care and support for people with serious cancer. I’m not talking about disease-directed care – oncologists skilfully take care of that. I’m talking about expert, empathic care with an overarching goal of improving the quality of life of both the patient and the family… The kind of care and […]

No official US evacuation plan for Americans outside Kabul, report says

Post Content The U.S. has no plans to evacuate Americans in Afghanistan who are located outside Kabul, according to a report Tuesday. Officials from various departments — including State and Defense — informed Senate staffers at a Tuesday morning briefing that they do not know of a way to get those Americans through Taliban checkpoints […]