#ISRAEL: High Court Rules Draft Deferrments For Seminary Students Must End

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Israel's High Court of Justice has issued an interim order barring the government from providing funds to ultra-Orthodox seminary students eligible for military enlistment — as the legal framework for deferring their military service will no longer exist.

A government resolution from June 2023 instructing the Israel Defense Force to temporarily not draft Orthodox seminary students despite the expiration of a law governing the matter will itself expire at midnight on March 31.

The controversy of student deferrals ending could break apart Netanyahu's wartime coalition, which consists of Orthodox political parties.

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CANADA: Population Boom Lowered Productivity, Says Bank Study

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As Ottawa overhauls its temporary immigration programs, a new analysis by Bank of Nova Scotia warns that the unchecked population surge of the past two years is behind two-thirds of the “massive” decline in productivity over the same time period.

The drop stems from a combination of two factors: chronically-low business investment in Canada and the sudden explosion in population, which grew by 1.25 million last year alone.

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#UGANDA: Online Protest Targets Gov't Corruption

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Abuse of public funds. Failing hospitals. Potholes in the streets of Kampala, the capital of Uganda.

These and other issues feature in an online protest campaign that is rattling government officials and others in this East African country where street protests are practically outlawed — and where corruption is widespread and often deadly.

The campaign has been trending on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, as #UgandaParliamentExhibition. It relies on leaks of official documents and has been cast as an "exhibition" — in a sequence of postings — about controversial issues.

President Museveni, 79, Blames "foreigners and Western pro-gay activists" for criticism of the government, calling them "enemies of the people." Uganda has passed some of the most restrictive anti-gay laws in the world, drawing condemnation and causing homosexuals to literally flee for their lives. 

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#GERMANY: Russian Election "Not Legitimate;" Putin May Be Refered to As "Governor" of Russia

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The German government does not recognize the legitimacy of the Russian presidential election, German government’s spokesperson Christiane Hoffman has said.

“At the moment we don’t have a dialogue with Vladimir Putin, so it’s not a question right now,” she said, answering the question of how the authorities of the Federal Republic of Germany intend to call Putin by title – “president or governor”.

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#CUBA: Protests Spread As Blackouts, Food Shortages Paralize Nation

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Cuba is "on the verge of total collapse" as the country has been hit by blackouts with residents taking to the streets calling for "food and power".

The crisis has seen the Cuban government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage. As the Caribbean island goes through its harshest economic crisis in three decades, the communist regime is resorting to hitherto unseen cries for help to other countries.

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#SOUTHSUDAN: Gov't Shuts Schools, Gov't Offices Amid Heatwave; Blames West

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Blaming "climate change" and the West, Joseph Africano Bartel, undersecretary for Environment in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, has announced the closure of schools and government businesses in this war-torn and poor African nation amid a severe heatwave. 

Yolanda Awel Deng, minister for Health, said heatwave like the current one hits cities the hardest, and reduce productivity. She urged people to remedying indoors as much as possible. She said the government is monitoring the situation for disease outbreaks.

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#RUSSIA: Putin Wins Fifth Term in "Landslide"

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Vladimir Putin was always going to claim his fifth term as president with a landslide, faced with three other candidates all rubber-stamped by the Kremlin.

But when election officials said results gave him more than 87% of the vote, he said Russia's democracy was more transparent than many in the West.

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#THENETHERLANDS: Wilders Says He Doesn't Have Support To Be PM... Yet

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Geert Wilders, whose anti-Islam, anti-immigration rhetoric swept his Party for Freedom to a stunning victory in the November election, said earlier this week that he doesn’t have the support of his prospective coalition partners to become the next Dutch prime minister.

Wilders took to X, formerly Twitter, to say that “I can only become premier if ALL parties in the coalition support that. That wasn’t the case.” Later, however, he took to X to say that one day, he will have enough support.

His coalition consists of 88 seats in the 150-seat parliament. His Freedom Party continues to gain support in the polls.

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USA: Sen. Schumer's Anti-Netanyahu Speech Stuns Israel

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) speech calling for a new government in Israel landed like an earthquake Thursday, delivering a huge shock to the already tense U.S.-Israel relationship.

In addition to being the most senior Jewish elected official in the country, Schumer has had one of the longest and closest relationships with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of any U.S. politician.

Schumer's speech, calling for new elections in Israel, stunned officials and observers in both Washington and Jerusalem because he has been the Democratic Party's most avid supporter of Israel in decades.

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#CROATIA: Parliament Dissolved Ahead of National Election

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 Croatia's parliament has been dissolved to pave the way for a parliamentary election later this year.

All 143 of a total of 151 lawmakers who were present at the session voted in favor of the move.

The date of the election is yet to be set. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has suggested it should be held before the vote for the European Parliament, which will be held on June 6-9.

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#IRELAND: Voters Reject 2 Referenda Questions In Defeat for PM

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Voters in the Republic of Ireland have overwhelmingly voted against amending the Irish Constitution.

Proposals to alter wording in the constitution to include families which are not based on marriage were defeated with 67.7% voting 'no'.

A second proposed change on the wording around the role of women in the home was defeated by a higher margin with 73.9% of voters rejecting it.

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#SWITZERLAND: Voters Approve Pension Raise

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Swiss voters backed a plan to raise pensions, the first time in the country’s history that social benefits got an increase via plebiscite.

The proposal to introduce a 13th annual payout to pensioners was supported by 58.2% of the electorate and also met the additional requirement of being passed in the majority of Switzerland’s cantons. A second initiative to raise the retirement age — and subsequently tie it to life expectancy — was rejected, garnering only 25.3% of votes.

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IRAN: Low Turnout In Parliamentary Election

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Iranians are voting for a new parliament in an election marred by frustration over economic woes and restrictions on political and social freedoms.

The election on Friday is the first formal measure of public opinion since antigovernment protests in 2022-2023 spiralled into some of the worst political turmoil since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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