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Photo by Jorge Fernández Salas on Unsplash. The attacks of October 7 continue to reverberate throughout Israel, affecting every single sector of its economy—tourism not excepted. Throughout, the  Israel Ministry of Tourism  has rallied together tourism industry leaders and entities to provide aid and comfort to those who have been displaced or who have lost loved ones through numerous initiatives. “On October 7, the lives of Israeli citizens were changed forever,” said Eyal Carlin, Israel’s tourism commissioner to North America, in a press statement. “In the nearly four weeks since that horrific day, the tourism community has united like never before to provide comfort to those who are grieving or have loved ones missing, while looking ahead to a time when we can again safely welcome travelers back to our amazing country.”

Ms Sheinbaum, a scientist who ran Mexico City in 2018-23, has the backing of the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mario Delgado, the president of Mr López Obrador's party, called her expected victory a "stellar moment in the history of our country". Mr López Obrador, who has been in power since 2018, cannot run for the top office again, as under Mexico's constitution, presidents are limited to a single six-year-term. The popular leader - recent polls suggested he had an approval rate of close to 60% - has instead thrown his weight behind Ms Sheinbaum, who is part of his Morena party. While many of the promises President López Obrador made upon taking office have remained unfulfilled, his efforts to reduce poverty and help elderly Mexicans have been popular with beneficiaries of these social programmes. Having the backing of the president may have considerably widened Ms Sheinbaum's base of voters, but it has also raised questions about how independ...

Frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum is set to become Mexico's first woman president in an historic win, exit polls suggest. Pollsters predicted that the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City had won 56% of the vote in Sunday's election, convincingly beating her main rival, businesswoman Xóchitl Gálvez. Ms Sheinbaum's Morena party has already claimed victory - but Ms Gálvez urged her supporters to wait for the official results, expected to be announced early on Monday. Voters were also electing all members of Mexico's Congress and governors in eight states, as well as the head of Mexico City's government, in the campaign marred by violent attacks. The government says more than 20 local candidates have been killed across Mexico, although private surveys puts the total at 37. Two people were reported killed in two attacks on polling stations in the state of Puebla on Sunday, officials said.

Frank McCourt, Founder of  Project Liberty  and Executive Chairman of McCourt Global, today announced that Project Liberty is organizing a bid to acquire the popular social media platform TikTok in the U.S., with the goal of placing people and data empowerment at the center of the platform’s design and purpose. Working in consultation with Guggenheim Securities, the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, and Kirkland & Ellis, one of the world’s largest law firms, as well as world-renowned technologists, academics, community leaders, parents and engaged citizens, this bid for TikTok offers an innovative, alternative vision for the platform’s infrastructure – one that allows people to reclaim agency over their digital identities and data by proposing to migrate the platform to a new digital open-source protocol. In launching the bid, McCourt and his partners are seizing this opportunity to return control and value back into the hands of indiv...

Frank McCourt Organizing a People’s Bid to Acquire TikTok 15 MAY 2024 Frank McCourt, Founder of Project Liberty and Executive Chairman of McCourt Global, announces that Project Liberty is building a consortium to purchase TikTok and rearchitect the platform to put people in control of their digital identities and data Leading technologists and academics, including Jonathan Haidt, David Clark, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee express support for Project Liberty’s vision for a more open, inclusive and responsible internet

Ms Sheinbaum, a scientist who ran Mexico City in 2018-23, has the backing of the outgoing president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Mario Delgado, the president of Mr López Obrador's party, called her expected victory a "stellar moment in the history of our country". Mr López Obrador, who has been in power since 2018, cannot run for the top office again, as under Mexico's constitution, presidents are limited to a single six-year-term. The popular leader - recent polls suggested he had an approval rate of close to 60% - has instead thrown his weight behind Ms Sheinbaum, who is part of his Morena party. While many of the promises President López Obrador made upon taking office have remained unfulfilled, his efforts to reduce poverty and help elderly Mexicans have been popular with beneficiaries of these social programmes. Having the backing of the president may have considerably widened Ms Sheinbaum's base of voters, but it has also raised questions about how independ...

Robert William Pickton is shown in this undated file television image in his Port Coquitlam home. REUTERS/Global TV/ File Photo  Purchase Licensing  Rights , opens new tab TORONTO, May 31 (Reuters) - Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton died on Friday aged 74 after he was assaulted by another inmate in a maximum-security prison earlier this month, prison authorities said. One of Canada's most infamous mass murderers, Pickton was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his pig farm in the Pacific province of British Columbia. He was convicted of killing six women whose partial remains were found on his ramshackle property near Vancouver. Government prosecutors dropped charges for an additional 20 murders after he was sentenced to life in prison. Canada's correctional service said Pickton had died after being assaulted on May 19 in the Quebec prison where he had been serving his sentence. Following the assault, he was ...

SAN SALVADOR, June 1 (Reuters) - El Salvador's  President Nayib Bukele  took office on Saturday for a second term pledging to cure the "illnesses" of the Central American country by prescribing his medicine to fix the economy, following his successful treatment to cure the "cancer of the gangs" during his first five years in office. The 42-year-old former nightclub manager was reelected in a landslide victory with more than 80% of the vote in February, following a court decision that paved the way for his re-election even though the country's constitution prohibits it. "Salvadorean society is still sick but it no longer has cancer," Bukele told the crowd from the balcony of the National Palace in the capital San Salvador. The cancer referred to criminal gangs that once made the country one of the world's deadliest to live in, but have been brought under control through mass arrests during his leadership. "Now that we have fixed the most ur...

We have always been here. At the university mobilising the police in its persecution of anti-colonial thought. At the suspensions and “talking to” of anti-colonial professors, the arrest of the conscientious dissenters and the pimping of concepts of anti-racism and forcing them into the service of colonial violence. At appropriating the fight against anti-Semitism, forged from Warsaw to Crown Heights, to make of it a human shield for settler conquest so that even the political party brimming with Holocaust deniers, who only yesterday were fear-mongering about George Soros, “Jewish lasers” and the “banking elite”, can seamlessly be recast as crusaders against anti-Semitism. I am not surprised that my, as they say, alma mater, is a central campus site in the battle between universities and protest. Nor am I surprised that my mentors and dissertation adviser remain in settler power’s crosshairs