>"Israeli embassy officials in Berlin say they are ‘appalled by the antisemitic elements’"

>"Canadian police have begun an attempt to clear protesters Saturday morning from the Ambassador Bridge across from Detroit, intending to end a six-day blockage of North America's busiest international crossing by demonstrators decrying _...Read More_

>"A German court sentenced a Syrian army colonel to life in prison in the first-ever torture trial against President Bashar al-Assad's regime, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said in Koblenz on Thursday."

>"If 2020 renewed calls for racial equality as Black Lives Matter protests exploded throughout Europe, 2021 brought in the backlash as parts of the political establishment waged a so-called "war against woke.""

"If 2020 renewed calls for racial equality as Black Lives Matter protests exploded throughout Europe, 2021 brought in the backlash as parts of the political _...Read More_

>"January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election."

>"Powerful associates of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, are making and selling captagon, an illegal amphetamine, creating a new narcostate on the Mediterranean."

A health care analyst came to Manhattan for an anime convention. His trip shows how the virus once again outpaced the public health response.

At least eight people were killed and many others injured after a crowd surged forward while rapper Travis Scott was on stage at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday night

"Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had ordered the foreign ministry to declare 10 ambassadors from Western countries 'persona non grata' for calling for the release of philanthropist Osman Kavala."

>"Government pockets half of donations as central bank forces UN agencies to use lower exchange rate"

The sword, recovered off the coast of Israel, most likely belonged to a knight who fell into the sea or lost the weapon in battle, experts said.

>"Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's party was the biggest winner in an Iraqi election on Monday, increasing the number of seats he holds in parliament, according to initial results, officials and a spokesperson for the Sadrist _...Read More_

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. --Robert Zoellick

[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/06/europe/germany-jan-hecker-death-intl-hnk/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/06/europe/germany-jan-hecker-death-intl-hnk/index.html) "The German Ambassador to China, Jan Hecker, has died suddenly at 54, after only a few weeks in his position, according to a statement posted on the _...Read More_