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In Maharashtra, MVA and BJP trade blame over vaccine supply Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA The row between the Centre and the Maharashtra government over COVID-19 vaccine roll-out has turned into a full-blown slanging match between the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik on Thursday alleging that the French Embassy in India had procured the Moderna vaccine and that it was being administered to its nationals in Nav...

Global Atlanta May 10, 2021 | Staff Angela Jackson Editor’s note: Since its founding in 2016, Georgia State University’s Center for Urban Language Teaching and Research, or CULTR, has become a key convener for vital discussions on enhancing inclusive language instruction among underserved communities and institutions in metro Atlanta and beyond.  A touchstone event each year is the Global Languages Leadership Meeting, a networking luncheon that allows local organizations from the business,...

March 29, 2021 One of the consequences of the European conquest of most of southern Asia was an insatiable interest in the regions geography. European-made maps at the time were full of blank spots or, at best, rough guesses of the exact location and height of certain mountains and the sources and accurate courses of major rivers. Ambitious individuals in the academic world sought to make their reputations by answering important geographical questions. By the late 1880s Great Britain had alread...

Here on Israellycool, we have covered the injustice surrounding the case of Sarah Halimi, murdered by her neighbor who was found to be ineligible to stand trial because he was under the influence of cannabis and therefore not criminally responsible for his actions. As I pointed out, even animals have it better in France, and French President Macron agrees the law needs to be changed. Former NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind arranged a candlelight vigil in front of the French Consulate a few days...

22 Apr 2021 Over a hundred protestors gathered outside the French Consulate in New York City on Tuesday to express outrage over a decision by the highest court in France not to put a man who killed a Jewish woman while screaming Allah hu Akbar on criminal trial because his consumption of marijuana triggered a “delirious episode” that made him not responsible for his actions. Kobili Traore brutally beat his 65-year-old neighbor before throwing her out of the window of her third-floor apar...

Amidst a crackdown on Christianity in China, on September 22 the Vatican and Beijing provisionally reached a major agreement: Pope Francis will recognize seven excommunicated bishops Beijing appointed, in exchange for more influence on who Beijing appoints as bishops in the future. Perhaps mindful of the role the Catholic Church played in the Eastern European democratic revolutions in the 1980s and ’90s, Beijing has long been hesitant to engage with the Vatican. What is at stake in this chang...

shutdown of social media and instant messaging platforms after days of violent anti-France protests. In a notice to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the Interior Ministry requested a "complete blocking" of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Telegram until 3pm. It gave no reason for the ban, but it came a day after French citizens and companies in Pakistan were advised by their embassy to temporarily leave after rallies led by an extremist party paralysed large parts of the co...

The Indestructible Townhouse Over 211 years, the Dickey House in Lower Manhattan has survived everything New York City has thrown at it. Soon it will become part of a new home for Public School 150. April 9, 2021, 8:00 a.m. ET When it comes to architectural survivors amid Manhattan’s eternal churn of destruction and redevelopment, it is hard to top the 211-year-old, four-story brick landmark at 67 Greenwich Street in the financial district. Originally the townhouse of the merchant Robert Dick...

AJC CEO David Harris Becomes "Officer" of the Order of the Legion of Honor in French Government Ceremony News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- France honored American Jewish Committee (AJC) CEO David Harris today with one of the countrys most prestigious awards. The ceremony took place at the French Consulate in New York City. French Ambassador to the U.S. Philippe Étienne promoted Harris to the rank of Officer within the order of the ...

It seems like the most open and shut of cases. In the middle of a lavish wedding reception in Be’er Sheba in Israel’s Negev desert, the French bride and Israeli groom are all set to cut the cake. Suddenly the lights go out, the power cut. When they come back on, there stands the bride in front of everyone – splattered in blood, the cake knife in her hand, her husband dying at her feet. With hundreds of witnesses, it should be case closed. But Natalie (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) says she didn’...