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WORLD / EUROPE EU citizens back 2030 ban on gas cars By Reuters Published: Apr 12, 2021 07:23 PM A majority of residents of European cities support a Europe-wide phaseout of combustion engine car sales from 2030 to reduce planet-warming emissions, a YouGov poll conducted on behalf of environmental campaigners said on Monday. A Hyundai Kona electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) in a cradle on the assembly line at the Hyundai Motor Co. plant in Nosovice, Czech Republic, on Wednesday, April 7,...

New British legislation and reports on race, universities, and culture provide a pathway for conservatives across the Anglosphere.

A Smoking Ban On Balconies? Warsaw Tests The Edges Of Freedom A smoking ban on balconies has already been introduced in Lithuania - S Alb       Proposals to ban smoking on private balconies are led by activists trying to modify citizens lifestyles and fight "ideologically different phenomena," even when the real harm of these divergent behaviors is negligible. -Essay- WARSAW — Could there soon be a ban on smoking cigarettes on balconies in Warsaw? Or maybe one ...

Travel certificates back on the agenda This WEEK Digital Covid-19 travel certificates will be debated by MEPs this week as the EU Commission aims to have the documents ready to go by the summer (Photo: Steven Thompson) Brussels, 12. Apr, 07:11 After a week when a missing chair for EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in her visit with European Council president Charles Michel to Ankara rattled fathers inside and outside of the EU bubble, vaccines and travel certificates will be back cen...

Marty Rochester’s March 24 opinion piece, “Oy vey: The excesses of identity politics,” cries out for rebuttal on a number of fronts. Since I’m having trouble deciding whether I am, in Rochester’s words, a “garden-variety liberal” or a “left-wing extremist,” I’ll let other more astute readers…

Minsk Wages Diplomatic War on Multiple Fronts Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 58 Belarusian Embassy in Warsaw On April 4, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka proposed to “optimize” the number of Belarusian embassies and their staff around the world. Essentially, the Belarusian leader declared, if Belarus’s “diplomatic presence” in some countries has no “prospects” because of a minuscule volume of mutual trade and/or because those countries are hostile to Belarus, ...

But there is so much more to the legendary stories of his life. Once, as Glatstein and his brother were dragged into the Dachau crematorium, praying “Shema Yisrael” as they prepared for death, a Nazi guard hollered and pulled them out, insisting they were still healthy enough to work. Glatstein’s family later characterized the guard as the prophet Elijah in disguise. “That guard, he didn’t save my father and brother — he saved me, he saved my children, he saved my grandchildren,” ...

Park Slope Couple Celebrates Canine Companions With New Film Patch 5 days ago © Courtesy of Urtext Films. Documentary film "WE DON’T DESERVE DOGS" was released last week. PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — For Park Slope filmmakers Matthew Salleh and Rose Tucker, their latest documentary film "WE DONT DESERVE DOGS" is about much more than a celebration of the worlds favorite pet. The documentary, spanning 11 countries, may feature the furry companions at its core, but the questions it poses are o...

Blinken’s Holocaust gaffe Blinken’s Holocaust gaffe From the secretary of state’s recent remarks, one could erroneously conclude that it was actually Assistant Secretary of State Long, not President Roosevelt, who decided that the U.S. should refrain from intervening to aid European Jewry. (April 12, 2021 / Jewish Journal) Was Breckinridge Long our 32nd president, rather than Franklin Roosevelt? From Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent remarks, one could erroneously conclude that...

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