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u Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked Holocaust Memorial Day and the 78th liberation anniversary of the Auschwitz concentration camp by reminding the world that “indifference kills.” “We know and remember that indifference kills along with hatred. Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together,” he said in a Friday …

A court in Thailand sentenced a 27-year-old political activist to 28 years in prison on Thursday for posting messages on Facebook that it said defamed the country’s monarchy, while two young women charged with the same offense continued a hunger strike after being hospitalized. The court in the northern province …

“A dead Egyptian body, or a live British matriarch,” read the clue that Alex Trebek gave Jeopardy! contestants on a February 2015 episode. “What is a mummy?” one of the contestants replied.  Though Trebek accepted the response, a museum administrator in the U.K. today might tut-tut this exact wording. Visitors …

A Canadian pastor is facing his final trial after three years of repeated fines, arrests and imprisonment for keeping his church open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Artur Pawlowski, pastor of the Cave of Adullam congregation in Calgary, said he is accused of causing $400 million worth of damages for officiating …

Doctors demand end to COVID-related mandates Dr. Meryl Nass and Children’s Health Defense Organizer Michael Kane joined ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss why they decided to author a letter demanding an end to the mandates.  Healthy British residents under 50 will no longer be able to get COVID-19 boosters …

A transgender woman convicted of rapes carried out when she was a man will serve her prison sentence in Scotland with male inmates, officials said.  First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Thursday that Isla Bryson would not be incarcerated in a woman’s correctional facility “either short term or long term” following …

Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build “several” nuclear weapons if it chooses, the United Nations’ top nuclear official is now warning. But diplomatic efforts aimed at again limiting its atomic program seem more unlikely than ever before as Tehran arms Russia in its war on Ukraine and as …

Russia responded Thursday for the first time regarding the decision by President Biden to send Abrams M1 tanks to Ukraine, accusing it of “direct involvement in the conflict.” During his Wednesday announcement, Biden said the shipment of tanks that he classified as the “most capable tanks in the world” were …

The German government’s top anti-drugs official called Thursday for tough restrictions on advertising of alcohol, tobacco and sports betting in the country. Burkhard Blienert said about 150,000 people die in Germany each year as a result of alcohol and tobacco use, and an estimated one in eight adults has a …

Indian businessman Pramod Mittal was charged in Bosnia Thursday with heading an organized crime group and abuse of office while he was head of the supervisory board and co-owner of a coke plant in the northeastern town of Lukavac. Mittal, the younger brother of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, was …