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Inside a centuries -old monastery on top of a mountain in western Syria, a priest swing an incense holder on a chain, led his flock in melodic songs and handed over a timeless sermon on the importance of loving the neighbor.But when the congregation gathered for coffee after the service, their current concerns emerged, on how peaceful the future of Syria would have been.Are the Islamist rebels who ousted the strong Bashar al-Assad man in December Ban Pork and Alcohol, would they impose a modest dress for women or limit Christian worship? Would the new security forces protect Christians from attacks by Muslim extremists?"Nothing happened that makes you feel that things are better," said Mirna Haddad, one of the faithful.Elsewhere in the historic city of Maaloula, its Muslim minority had dif...

"It's not my cello," said Rosie O'donnell on a video call, sitting on a gray seat in a gray sweatshirt and a pair of chic brown glasses.In New York, it was a Thursday morning. In Dublin, where the actress, the comedian and former Talk Show conductor remains from mid -January, the afternoon light was broadcast through a nearby window. The cello arrived with the rental.Many celebrities spoke during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 elections on the transfer abroad if Donald J. Trump won - among these, Barbra Streisand, Cher and Amy Schumer.Mrs. O'Donnell actually succeeded."I never thought he would win again," said President Trump, raising the television clips that he watched Kamala Harris last year, then vice -president, appearing at the Arenas packed in Pennsylvania and Michigan. "But I said:" If yo...

The Trump administration is not surrendering on the giants of technology.On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission will face off in court for the statements that the social media giant has eliminated nascent competitors when he purchased Instagram and WhatsApp. And on April 21, the Department of Justice will support that a federal judge should force Google to sell its web browser Chrome to limit the power of its research monopoly.Both cases, which contributed to setting a new antitrust control era, were presented during the first term of President Trump. They were advanced by the Biden Administration, which also intended Monopoly legal actions against Amazon, Apple and the business of Google advertising technology.Investors in Silicon Valley and Wall Street hoped that Mr. Trump could show mo...

During his Senate confirmation hearings to be Secretary of Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. showed up as a supporter of vaccines. But in office, he and the agencies he leads have taken large -scale measures, sometimes thin to undermine trust in the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.The National Institutes of Health has interrupted the funding for researchers who study the hesitation of the vaccine and hoped to find a way to overcome it. He also canceled the programs destined to discover new vaccines to prevent future pandemics.The centers for the control and prevention of diseases have set aside an advertising campaign for the flu. Kennedy said in an incorrect way that scientists who recommend the CDC on vaccines have "serious and serious conflicts of interest" in promoting products and yo...

The Israeli army hit and destroyed part of a hospital in the north of Gaza on Sunday morning, shortly after telling patients and staff to evacuate the site. The attack came hours after the Israeli government announced that its troops that fought elsewhere in the territory had expanded their occupation of the Southern Gaza Strip, interrupting the links between two Palestinian cities positioned strategically.Nobody was killed in the attack on the Arabic hospital Ahli, but a child who is treated for a head injury died due to the hasty evacuation, according to a declaration issued by the Anglican Church in Jerusalem, who supervises the medical center. The strike destroyed a laboratory and damaged a pharmacy, the emergency department and a church in the complex of the hospital in Zeitoun, added...

The first day of the total invasion of Russia, the president Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and his main political opponent at home squeezing his hand, putting aside their fierce rivalry to focus on the enemy. The typically Rauca policy of the country has become largely dormant for the three years that followed.Now, while the peace talks led by the Trump administration have aroused prospects for a ceased the fire and any elections, the political jockey has returned.Ukrainian politicians are maneuvering at home and move behind the scenes of the Trump administration, who did not secretly secretly make his contempt for Mr. Zelensky, despite his lionisation on the world phase for having resisted Russia.Petro O. Poroshenko, former Ukrainian president and leader of a rival party, He says that th...

After more than a week of caliber of rates on the products imported from China, the Trump administration issued a late Friday that spared smartphones, computers, semiconductors and other electronics from some commissions, in a significant break for technological companies such as Apple and the prices of the iPhones and other consumption electronics.A message published last Friday from the customs protection and the US borders included a long list of products that would not have to face the mutual rates that President Trump has imposed in the last few days on Chinese assets as part of a worsening of the commercial war. The exclusions would also apply to modem, router, flash units and other technological goods, which are not largely made in the United States.Exemptions are not a complete rec...

Nowadays they are so acute partisan divisions that it may seem that people have completely different realities. Perhaps in reality they are, according to Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist and political psychologist of the University of Cambridge. In a new book, "the ideological brain: the radical science of flexible thought", Dr. Zmigrod explores the emerging evidence that brain physiology and biology help to explain not only because people are prone to ideology, but how they perceive and share information.This conversation has been modified for clarity and brevity.What is ideology?It is a narrative on how the world works and how it should work. This could be the social world or the natural world. But it's not just a story: it has really rigid prescriptions on how we should think, how we should...

When Yona Schnitzer, a Marketing writer of Tel Aviv, participated in the traditional meal of Seder Pasqua, said a special prayer for the return of all the hostages still held by Palestinian militants in Gaza.He had thought that their freedom would be assured by Easter of 2025, but this did not happen."It has become so normalized that there are hostages in Gaza," said Schnitzer, 36 years old. "It's surreal and heartbreaking."Saturday evening, the Israelis will observe the beginning of the Jewish Easter, the Jewish Festival of Liberty, for the second time from 7 October 2023 led by Hamas, who lit the war in Gaza. The holiday is usually a celebration of the biblical history of the ancient Israelites freed from slavery in Egypt, with families gathering to tell that story, sing songs and eat sp...

To listen to President Vladimir V. Putin, the economy of Russia has thrived despite the western sanctions, becoming more self -sufficient and reorieasing towards new markets.But there is a company that Russian officials do not secretly secret: Boeing.The air giant planes play a fundamental role in the economy of Russia, connecting its distant cities. Until the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Boeing sold and maintained planes in Russia and managed an important design center there. He also bought a large part of his titanium, a key material for modern jets, from Russia.While President Trump pursues a surprising rapprochement with Moscow, the company emerged as a first test if the American companies that fled Russia at the beginning of the war will return.Boeing did not say anything in p...