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“There’s never been an Arab state here with the capital of Jerusalem,” says Daniel Luria. “There’s never been a Palestinian state here. This talk about Palestine, Palestine … I’ve never heard of anything more absurd.” Luria is the executive director of Ateret Cohanim, a settler organisation working to create a Jewish majority in the city of Jerusalem . Raised in Australia, Luria says Israel is his only home, in spite of only having moved there 25 years ago. He is one of more than 850,000 people residing in Jerusalem. After a peaceful period under Ottoman rule, where Islam, Christianity and Judaism coexisted in relative harmony, the decline of the empire and consequent victory of the British in Palestine during World War I set the stage for the eventual takeover of the city. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jewish forces captured West Jerusalem as the eastern half became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan . Almost two decades later, the  1967 Six-Day War would see the Jewish

It’s been a challenging five years since Ukraine ‘s revolution. Petro Poroshenko took over as leader, promising to fight corruption and stand strong after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. But with a struggling economy and a war against separatists in the east of the country, Poroshenko is facing a battle to hold on to the job. He is one of 39 candidates in the first round of Sunday’s presidential election, along with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. But the frontrunner appears to be Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian with no experience in politics, except for playing the president in a hit TV show. So who will Ukrainians choose? Presenter: Divya Gopalan Guests: Olexiy Haran – professor of comparative politics at Kiev Mohyla Academy Dmitry Babich – political analyst at Rossiya Segodnya news agency Lilit Gevorgyan – Russia and eastern Europe analyst at IHS Markit Source:   Al Jazeera News Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2JPzAkG

Arsenal’s Katie McCabe fires home from 20 yards to earn her side a potentially crucial 1-0 win against Birmingham in the Women’s Super League, as the Gunners aim to win their first league title since 2012. Watch WSL highlights on the Women’s Football Show on BBC One and the BBC Sport website and app at 23:30 BST. Available to UK users only. Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2TNDMB8

Kiev, Ukraine – Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky will face incumbent President Petro Poroshenko in a runoff vote for  Ukraine ‘s presidency, exit polls have shown. Zelensky,  a political novice  who is better known for playing a president in a TV sitcom, was projected to win 30.6 percent of the votes cast on Sunday,  according to surveys conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology and the Razumkov Centre. “This is just a first step towards a great victory,” he told supporters after the publication of the exit polls.  Poroshenko, who has been in power since 2014, was forecast to come second, with 17.8 percent of the votes. “I critically and soberly understand the signal that society gave today to the acting authorities,” he said, accepting the projected results. It was a different story for  opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, who disputed the surveys that showed her coming third, with 14.2 percent of the votes.   “I urge not to consider exit polls as the ultimate tru

Saudi political prisoners suffered torture and malnutrition, according to leaked medical reports prepared for King Salman, the Guardian newspaper has reported . The medical reports are understood to have been prepared for the king along with recommendations that include potential pardoning for the prisoners or early release due to health concerns. The medical examinations included in the report are believed to have been conducted in January for up to 60 prisoners as part of an internal review ordered by the king, despite objections by aides of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the Guardian wrote. The report was to be circulated around the royal court, a source told the British newspaper. The conditions of the prisoners as reported in the leaked documents are consistent, the daily said, with several reports that have emerged in recent months involving claims of torture in Saudi prisons. MBS, the kingdom’s de facto leader, is also facing reproach over the murder of Saudi jo

Saudi Arabia hacked the phone of Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, to gain access to his personal data, an investigator has said .  Bezos hired Gavin de Becker to look into the release by US tabloid National Enquirer of  leaked text messages and photos. “Our investigators and several experts concluded with high confidence that the Saudis had access to Bezos’ phone, and gained private information,” de  Becker wrote on The Daily Beast website on Saturday. De Becker linked the hack to extensive coverage by The Washington Post newspaper, which is owned by Bezos, of the murder of Saudi journalist  Jamal Khashoggi  at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul last year. “It’s clear that MBS considers The Washington Post to be a major enemy,” de  Becker wrote, referring to the oil-rich kingdom’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , whom the US Senate, after a closed-door briefing by the CIA, named as “responsible” for the murder. Saudi Arabia has stressed t

Abuja, Nigeria – On February 3, Khadijah Adamu, a 24-year-old pharmacist in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, told her Twitter followers about a harrowing case of physical abuse, detailing claims of how an ex-boyfriend almost killed her. “ It was a burden that I was carrying around for two years,” Adamu told Al Jazeera. “Talking to people didn’t work, praying didn’t work, nothing worked, and to make matters worse my abuser refused to leave me alone.” Fakhriyyah Hashim, an entrepreneur and development worker in the Nigerian capital Abuja, noticed Adamu’s tweet and replied with empathy, adding the hashtag #ArewaMeToo.   Arewa is the general term used to refer to northern Nigeria , which has a majority Muslim population and a conservative society where issues surrounding sex and sexuality are rarely discussed in public. Soon, young women and men from the north started sharing experiences of rape and abuse on Twitter, using the hashtag. Some tweets even named the alleged abusers

Pope Francis  has joined  Morocco ‘s King Mohammed VI in saying  Jerusalem  should be a “symbol of peaceful coexistence” for Christians, Jews and Muslims on the first day of a visit to the North African country. The spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics was invited by King Mohammed VI for the sake of “interreligious dialogue”, according to Moroccan authorities. He is expected to celebrate mass at a Rabat stadium with an estimated 10,000 people attending as well as visiting a church-run social services centre and meeting with Catholic priests and other Christian representatives on Sunday. In a joint statement on Saturday, the two leaders said Jerusalem was “common patrimony of humanity and especially the followers of the three monotheistic religions”. “The specific multi-religious character, the spiritual dimension and the particular cultural identity of Jerusalem… must be protected and promoted,” they said in the declaration released by the Vatican as the pontiff v

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have rallied at the Israel- Gaza  fence to mark the first anniversary of the Great March of Return protests, facing off against Israeli tanks and troops massed on the fortified perimeter.  Israeli forces on Saturday used live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas on the protesters, killing three 17-year-old boys, and wounding at least 207 people, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Tamer Aby el-Khair was shot in the chest east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza and died at a hospital, the ministry said. The second teen, Adham Amara, died after being shot in the face east of Gaza City.  The third teen, Belal al-Najjar, was killed by an Israeli gunshot, according to Gaza officials. A fourth Palestinian, identified as 20-year-old Mohamed Jihad Saad, was killed in an overnight demonstration ahead of the main protest.  Palestinians are demanding the right to return to lands from which their families were violently expelled during the founding of Israel i

Kiev, Ukraine – Voters in Ukraine will on Sunday cast their ballots to choose their sixth president, in the first test for incumbent  Petro Poroshenko  since he entered the top office in 2014 on the wave of the so-called Revolution of Dignity. About 35 million people are eligible to vote, but several million of them in the Russian-annexed Crimea and the rebel-held parts of eastern Ukraine are unable or unwilling to cast their ballots. Polls on Sunday will open at 8am (06:00 GMT) and close at 8pm (18:00 GMT). An early count is expected on Monday. If none of the candidates secures 50 percent of the vote, a runoff between the top two candidates will take place on April 21. The race is contested by 39 contenders, but only three of them have a realistic chance of winning, according to opinion polls. The latest surveys show comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelensky leading with 20.6 percent, followed by opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko with about 13 percent. Poroshenko, wh

Amnesty International has worked to hold governments accountable for human rights violations for nearly 60 years, and it is now giving a critical look at its own organisation. Following the suicide of a staff member, Amnesty commissioned an independent review of its company culture, which found that some  of its staff have been victims of bullying, public humiliation, discrimination, and abuses of power, and that these issues threaten the organisation’s credibility. The report surveyed hundreds of employees as part of its investigation and found widespread mismanagement and a “toxic” work environment. According to the report,  39 percent of staff had developed mental or physical health issues because of working there, and 65 percent didn’t believe their well-being was a priority for Amnesty. “I think this was a problem that was left festering for decades,”  Kumi Naidoo , Amnesty’s secretary-general, told Al Jazeera. While we are winning battles, we are losing the war. And

Killer robots may sound like the name of a science fiction film, but they could be becoming a reality – and soon. Scientists say artificial intelligence has developed so quickly that we could soon see weapons that can choose a target and kill without being controlled by a human.  The United Nations has held five days of talks in Geneva, Switzerland on banning what are known as lethal autonomous weapons. But the United States , Russia, Israel and the United Kingdom are against any restrictions, saying these developments could make war safer.  How likely are killer robots? And are we prepared for them? Presenter: Divya Gopalan Guests: Will Crosthwait – cofounder of KENSAI, an artificial analysis consultancy company Mariarosaria Taddeo – research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute Toby Cadman – internet human rights lawyer and barrister at Guernica37 International Justice Chambers Source:   Al Jazeera News Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2UlgAy

Manchester United forward Jesse Lingard goes back to his old school to chat packed lunches and forgetting PE kit with BBC Sport’s Dion Dublin. WATCH MORE: Wijnaldum on Baby Shark & goosebumps for You’ll Never Walk Alone Watch Football Focus at 12:00 GMT on Saturday 30 March on BBC One. Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2Oxc0I6

Istanbul, Turkey – Millions of Turkish voters will on Sunday cast their ballots in critical local elections, after a heated campaign dominated by discussions over the country’s economy and security. The polls could pose a major challenge for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) Party given a backdrop of high inflation and rising unemployment sparked by a major currency crisis last year. According to Taha Akyol, a Turkish political analyst and columnist, the vote is the “hardest” faced by Erdogan’s party since coming to power in 2002. “The party is trying hard to stay away from discussing actual economic issues,” he said. Turkey’s economy has been hit hard since the lira lost as much as 40 percent of its value against the US dollar last year. The currency crisis, triggered in August after a bitter diplomatic spat with Washington, raised investor concerns over the independence of the Central Bank and highlighted wider worries over the perform

Watch highlights from the FA People’s Cup semi-finals with great goals, inspiring stories and guests appearances by comedian John Bishop and DJ Adele Roberts. This is a live BBC Sport stream starting at 17:30 GMT. Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2Wu8TmY

San Salvador, El Salvador – Mario* says he used to be an aggressive, domineering and an arrogant person. When his relationship ended more than two years ago, he threatened to publish intimate photos and videos of his ex-girlfriend in an attempt to regain control. He did not share the images publicly, but his messages were still a crime under Salvadoran law: online harassment, which carries a four to six years prison sentence in El Salvador. Mario spent six months behind bars before he was given the option of enrolling in a masculinity course, an alternative measure focused on rehabilitation. “Often a person doesn’t even realise that they are carrying out some type of violence, and in the class, they make us see,” Mario says, adding that the classes have helped him identify how his past and present behaviours have embodied toxic masculinity, commonly defined as a set of socially constructed traits that encourage dominance, aggression and the devaluation of women . The course is pa

Getty Images Copyright: Getty Images Welcome to the second of the Champions Cup quarter-finals, two-time champions Saracens taking on Glasgow Warriors , who are in the knockout stages for only the second time in their history. These two have been going at each other longer than back-seat toddler twins on a bank-holiday traffic jam. They have met five times previously in European competition, including a quarter-final two years ago and two pool games late in 2018. All three have gone the way of the English side, but there is plenty of friction in their fractious past. Read More from Trendy News Viral https://ift.tt/2I1F35B

Chipinge, Zimbabwe –  Flash floods and landslides triggered earlier this month by Cyclone Idai has destroyed large tracts of cornfields in Zimbabwe ‘s agricultural Manicaland and Masvingo provinces, heightening food insecurity in the southern African country. Farmers in the worst-affected villages of Chipinge and Chimanimani in Manicaland, more than 500km southeast of the capital, Harare, said the cyclone tore through the region on the eve of harvest, wiping out an already poor crop hit by an El Nino-induced drought. Fungai Njobwe, a 52-year-old-council worker, told Al Jazeera on Thursday that strong winds and flood waters have wrecked his corn fields in the town of Chipinge. He said he had expected that crop to feed his family of six for a year. “All our maize was destroyed and we have no hope of harvesting anything because it’s all gone,” Njobwe said. After floodwaters receded, pests had invaded the field and “are infesting the maize and eating it”, he added. Cyclone Idai, which