A Kurdish woman dances during Nowruz celebrations on March 24, 2018, in Tokyo, Japan. Nowruz, marking the first day of spring, is widely celebrated by Kurdish communities around the world. An estimated 2,000 Kurds live in Japan, many of whom are claiming refugee status owing to alleged human rights abuses in Turkey and Iraq. Carl Court/Getty Images
An estimated 10 to 15 million people worldwide are strangers in their own country. In many cases, they were born and raised in a country that denies them citizenship based on ethnic or religious discrimination. Since no government recognizes them, they can t get a birth certificate, attend school, see a doctor, own property or get married. In extreme cases, they are targets of violence and human trafficking.
Door-to-door testing in England to stop South African variant spread
From CNN s Jo Shelley
Volunteers are briefed at a fire station as local authorities prepare to deploy Covid-19 testing kits on February 2, in Woking, England. Leon Neal/Getty Images
Door-to-door coronavirus testing is being rolled out in parts of England in an attempt to stem the outbreak of a more contagious variant discovered in South Africa.
The surge testing scheme will see mobile testing units deployed in eight areas where the variant has been found.
A statement released by the UK Department of Health and Social Care on Monday said 105 cases of the strain had been detected in the UK to date and 11 cannot be traced back to international travel, leading to concerns about community transmission.
One of them married Nicky Hilton, Paris’s sister. Another is an environmental activist in Santa Monica, California who crossed the Pacific Ocean in “Plastiki,” a craft made of recycled plastic bottles. Another tragically died just two weeks ago at age 57. They invest, run business interests, donate generously to a variety of causes, and not one of them has ever caused a forest fire with laser beams.
Today’s Rothschilds aren’t as rich as Bezos and Gates, but they still command the attention of antisemites and conspiracy mongers. Case in point: Just over two years ago, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia suggested in a Facebook post that wildfires in California started by PG&E, in conjunction with the Rothschilds, using a space laser, in order to clear room for a high-speed rail project.