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ئیمانوێل ماکرۆن، سەرۆکی فەرەنسا ڕایگەیاند کەشتی فڕۆکەهەڵگری شارل دیگۆل دوای نزیکەی دوو مانگ لە جێگیربوونی لە نزیک تەنگەی هورمز دەگەڕێتەوە بەندەری تولۆن، وتیشی بەڵام کەشتییە مین هەڵگرەکانی فەرەنسا لەو ناوچەیە دەمێننەوە و ئەگەر پێویست بکات لەگەڵ هاوبەشە نێودەوڵەتییەکان کاردەکەن. ئەم بڕیارە دوای کەمبوونەوەی گرژییەکان لە دوای ڕێککەوتنی کاتی ئەمەریکا و کۆماری ئیسلامی درا. لە هەمان کاتدا بەریتانیا، فەرەنسا و عومان لە بەیاننامەیەکی هاوبەشدا ڕایانگەیاند مەسقەت هاوکاری هەردوو وڵات دەکات بۆ...

The community-led testing comes as residents report lingering health symptoms and question whether enough government monitoring has been done.

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(The Center Square) – As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Department of Education and a coalition of organizations launched a nationwide initiative to strengthen civics education amid concerns about students' understanding of American history and government. The America 250 Civics Education Coalition, led by the America First Policy Institute in partnership with the Education Department and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, officially launched on Sept. 17, Constitution Day, commemorating the document’s signing on Sept. 17, 1787. The coalition's mission is to strengthen civic literacy and encourage greater understanding of the nation's founding principles through educational programming leading up to Saturday's celebration of the nation's Independence Day. The initiative with the motto “Know America. Love America” has included over 100 events and programs nationwide. Among them have been K-12 teacher summits, student competitions, lectures, classroom resources and a 50-state “Trail to Independence Tour” highlighting each state's path to joining the Union. Coalition leaders say the effort is driven in part by declining civics proficiency among American students. “One of the first things we did was kind of a diagnostic on where we are in civic education, and that was kind of the sobering news," said Michael Shires, vice chair of education opportunity, higher education and senior policy officer at America First Policy Institute. Shires talked to The Center Square during an exclusive interview. Shires pointed to results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which found that only 23% of eighth graders scored at or above proficiency in civics education. “The numbers would say that we're not doing a very good job of passing that along to the next generation,” Shires told The Center Square. He argued civics instruction has increasingly emphasized the nation's shortcomings while overlooking the many positives of U.S. achievements. “A big part of how we got here is we just stopped telling the stories of what was good about America,” Shires said. “We've gotten much more proficient at telling the negative stories and forgotten to tell many of the positive stories.” Shires said coalition organizers hope the nation's 250th anniversary serves as the beginning of a broader effort rather than a one-time celebration. "We don't want July 5 to be the end of this conversation," Shires said. While political divisions are often reflected in public discourse, Shires said he believes many Americans remain optimistic about the country. “Despite what you see in the news headlines and the networks and the social media and everything else, for most people in their lives, they're excited that they're in America, that it's a place where they can thrive and make their own choices and pursue their dreams,” he said. McMahon said the coalition seeks to ensure students understand the nation's history and system of government. “Every young American understands the beauty of our nation and is equipped with the civic knowledge required to contribute meaningfully to its future,” the secretary of education said. The coalition working with the U.S. Department of Education includes dozens of education and civic organizations such as First Liberty Institute and Turning Point USA. First Liberty Institute President Kelly Shackelford told The Center Square back when the coalition was launched that public polling demonstrates widespread gaps in Americans' civic knowledge as well. “There are so many polls, for instance, like 71% of Americans don't even know what the three branches of government are,” Shackelford said. “And one of the more disturbing polls is that a large percentage of the students don't even love their country. And it's because they don't know what their country is. They don't know how wonderful our structure is, everything that's in place, the freedoms, how it's different from everybody else.” Among the coalition's signature initiatives is the Presidential 1776 Award, a national civics competition designed to recognize students' knowledge of the Constitution, the American founding and key moments in U.S. history. The competition features online testing, regional oral examinations and a national championship in Washington. The inaugural competition concluded in June, with high school student Miriam Washut of Lander, Wyo., winning the top prize and a $150,000 scholarship.

Described as “sometimes modest, sometimes historic,” UN special political missions have quietly been preventing the escalation of conflicts during the organization’s 80-year history, becoming a key instrument for maintaining peace.

भारत समर्थित एक पहल, कैरेबियाई देशों में मातृ एवं शिशु स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं को मज़बूत कर रही है और एचआईवी, सिफ़लिस तथा हैपेटाइटिस बी का माँ से बच्चे में संक्रमण समाप्त करने के प्रयासों को आगे बढ़ा रही है.

The Airbnb-style company Swimply said there have been about 275,000 private pool reservations so far this year.

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. This news analysis was originally distributed in Votebeat’s free weekly newsletter. Sign up to get future editions, including the latest reporting from Votebeat bureaus and curated news from other publications, delivered to your inbox every Saturday.Happy Fourth of July, on this 250th anniversary of the United States. We’re living through extraordinary times in American democracy, as President Trump presses for greater federal control over elections and redistricting slips loose from its once-a-decade rhythm. As always, Votebeat is focused on an essential part of it: who gets to vote, who makes the rules, and what those votes are worth.That question has loomed over the nation from the beginning. Voting history is often framed as a steady expansion from white male landowners to everyone else. The truth is messier. States have always experimented with expanding the franchise, retracting it, and expanding it again. Voting rights have long varied from state to stateThe Constitution has never contained a broad, affirmative right to vote, which helps explain why voting in America has always depended so much on where you live.Some states expanded the vote earlier than we typically remember. Vermont, for example, adopted a broad franchise before the federal Constitution existed. Others expanded the franchise and later narrowed it: Revolutionary Pennsylvania extended voting rights to taxpaying men before limiting the vote to white men in 1838. Taken together, these examples show that American voting rights have never moved in one direction for everyone at once.Let’s start with Vermont, one of the earliest examples of a state taking an unusually expansive view of who should have the vote. In 1777, before the federal Constitution existed, Vermont adopted its own, eliminating both property and taxpaying requirements for voting. Why? Because of a man whose name you’ve probably heard before: Ethan Allen.A painting depicts Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys demanding the surrender of British forces at Fort Ticonderoga on May 10, 1775. Allen’s militia is better remembered for its Revolutionary War exploits, but its fight against New York’s authority also helped create the breakaway political community that adopted Vermont’s unusually broad early voting rules.Allen led what historian Alexander Keyssar describes in his book “The Right to Vote” as an “unruly political—and military—process” involving his militia group, the Green Mountain Boys. Allen’s men roamed what ultimately became Vermont back when New York still claimed the territory, resisting New York’s authority by stopping sheriffs, intimidating New York-backed settlers, burning buildings, and sometimes flogging opponents. Their campaign was not specifically about expanding the franchise. It began as a fight over land, sovereignty, and New York’s authority in the territory that became Vermont. But by helping create a breakaway political community outside New York’s control, the Green Mountain Boys also helped create the conditions for a very different constitution — one that rejected New York’s property-based voting system and allowed any adult man who took the Freeman’s Oath to vote.Then came the U.S. Constitution. The 1787 document did not grant anyone the right to vote, instead deferring to states to determine the makeup of their own electorate. Whoever a state allowed to vote for its own legislature could also vote for members of Congress from that state. States, not the federal government, were left to decide who “the people” were. Vermont, therefore, could continue to coexist with neighboring New York despite radically different approaches to the franchise. That flexibility produced inconsistency. In 1780, Massachusetts dropped racial exclusions for voting but kept property ownership at the center of political rights. That meant a free Black man who met the property requirement could vote while a poor white man who did not meet it could not. Property, race, gender, dependency, and local law interacted unevenly in the early American electorate.Some states also gave voting rights and then took them away. In New Jersey, the state’s 1776 Constitution and a 1790 election law allowed some property-owning women and Black men to vote. That changed in 1807, when the Legislature limited voting to “free, white male” citizens.An 1808 article in the Trenton Federalist said the new law “restricted all that has made our elections disagreeable, contentious and corrupt; all Females and Negroes being now deprived of a vote, who, not being eligible to nor much acquainted with the affairs of government, need not any longer be made use of to answer a party purpose.” The same state-by-state experimentation complicates another assumption we often make now: that citizenship and voting have always been inseparable.For much of American history, they were not. Some territories and newer western states used the franchise as an inducement to settlers. If they wanted people to move west, build towns, work land, pay taxes, and bind their futures to a new place, the vote was often part of the offer.Wisconsin became the clearest example. In 1848, it allowed immigrants to vote if they had lived in the United States for two years and filed papers declaring their intent to become citizens. Michigan and Indiana soon followed, as did the Oregon and Minnesota territories. Later, similar rules spread across parts of the South and West.But here, too, societal pressures prompted change. States began repealing noncitizen voting laws in the late 19th century. The backlash accelerated around World War I, amid rising xenophobia and suspicion of immigrants’ loyalty. Arkansas was the last state to end the practice, doing so in 1926.Which brings us to the arguments over voting that Votebeat covers now.Today, the fight for voting rights revolves around equal representationFor much of American history, the central question around voting rights was who could get through the door: who could register, who could cast a ballot, and who was excluded by law. But there is another question on the other side of the franchise. In 1976, legal scholar Gerhard Casper argued that American debates had long focused on “the right to be a voter,” rather than the harder problem of representation. Voting, he wrote, “is supposedly performed with a goal in mind — representation; but voting does not in itself necessarily entail representation.”The Voting Rights Act of 1965 tried to answer both problems. It gave federal force to the principle that citizens could not be denied the ballot because of race, and Section 2 later became one of the main tools for challenging election rules and maps that diluted minority voters’ ability to turn votes into representation.That issue is at the core of the modern fights over gerrymandering. A voter can be eligible, registered, and able to cast a ballot, and still live under maps that weaken the political power of that vote.Louisiana is the latest example. After years of litigation over whether Black voters in the state had a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, the Supreme Court’s Callais decision struck down Louisiana’s second majority-Black congressional district and narrowed how Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act applies to redistricting. Many voting rights scholars and advocates have described the decision as a major rollback — not because it removes anyone from the voter rolls, but because it changes what legal protection remains when votes are diluted by district lines.That is not the same thing as states limiting or even taking away voting rights based on property requirements, gender, or citizenship status. But it belongs in the same history. The rules change. The line moves. And sometimes, as American history keeps reminding us, it moves backward. Jessica Huseman is Votebeat’s editorial director and is based in Dallas. Contact Jessica at jhuseman@votebeat.org.

Утром в субботу, 4 июля, в Мали джихадисты и повстанцы-сепаратисты снова осуществили скоординированные нападения на позиции хунты в разных районах страны. Сообщается в частности об атаке на тюрьму в 70 километрах от столицы. «Африканский корпус» ВС РФ заявил, что в боях участвуют российские наемники.

O funeral público do guia supremo iraniano Ali Khamenei teve início neste sábado (4) em Teerã, onde cerca 20 milhões de pessoas são esperadas. Quatro meses após a morte do aiatolá em ataques israelo‑americanos, o caixão com seus restos mortais está exposto na Grande Mosalla, um imenso complexo religioso na capital iraniana. Entre cânticos religiosos e recolhimento, a multidão clama vingança pela morte do líder.

เปิดนิทรรศการ “เกรียนบ้าน เกรียนเมือง” พิพิธภัณฑ์มามัญชน-กลุ่มล้อการเมือง ชวนสำรวจศิลปะล้อการเมืองผ่านอารมณ์ขัน

Американская певица Тейлор Свифт и игрок команды по американскому футболу «Канзас-Сити Чифс» Трэвис Келси поженились в Нью-Йорке 3 июля. Показываем, что происходило в городе во время празднования.

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Varsavia – Anche nel 2026, a cavallo tra giugno e luglio, le Pontificie Opere Missionarie della Polona hanno dato vita alla ormai tradizionale “Scuola per Animatori Missionari”. Quest'anno, dal 30 giugno al 3 luglio, l'evento ha riunito a Varsavia 42 partecipanti, tra seminaristi, religiose e volontari laici.La Scuola per Animatori Missionari punta a alimentare l’impeto missionario e far conoscere l'attività delle Pontificie Opere Missionarie. Il programma si basa su un metodo consolidato con giornate scandite da momenti di preghiera, liturgie eucaristiche quotidiane, laboratori e lezioni, ascolto di testimonianze, incontri e scambio di esperienze tra i partecipanti.L'edizione di quest'anno ha una connotazione singolare, in quanto coincide con il centenario dell’istituzione della Giornata Missionaria Mondiale , col 110° anniversario della fondazione della Pontificia Unione Missionaria con il 200° anniversario del “Rosario Vivente”, la pia pratica promossa dalla Beata Pauline Jaricot, iniziatrice dell’Opera della Propagazione della Fede. Anche questa edizione della “Scuola” - sottolinea il Direttore nazionale delle POM in Polonia, padre Maciej Bedzinski - è stata ravvivata dal contributo offerto da missionari provenienti dall'Africa e dal Sud America.Una nuova iniziativa: l'Accademia MissionariaIn occasione del110° anniversario dalla fondazione della Pontificia Unione Missionaria , il 1° luglio è stata ufficialmente inaugurata l'Accademia Missionaria, un corso missiologico di tre semestri condotto in modalità online.La prima lezione, riguardante la Sacra Scrittura come fonte della missione della Chiesa, è stata tenuta da padre Dinh Anh Nhue Nguyen, Segretario generale della PUM. Alle lezioni hanno partecipato 112 persone iscritte all'Accademia e 42 partecipanti della Scuola per Animatori Missionari.Nei mesi a venire sono previste ulteriori lezioni riguardanti, tra l'altro:L'essenza della fede rivelata e la figura di Gesù Cristo ; l'identità cristiana in relazione alla religione ; I principi dello sviluppo della fede rivelata e l'inculturazione missionaria ; il Kerygma, la catechesi e le basi della missionarietà .L'Accademia Missionaria suscita interesse anche fuori dai confini polacchi e coinvolge partecipanti di altri Paesi . I partecipanti alla Scuola concludono la formazione ricevendo un diploma e un mandato speciale, diventando collaboratori preziosi per le Pontificie Opere Missionarie.

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Javno tužilaštvo za organizovani kriminal navelo je za KRIK da će od Ministarstva unutrašnjih poslova zatražiti sve „skaj” komunikacije bivšeg predsednika Fudbalskog saveza Srbije Slaviše Kokeze i osoba sa kojima je, prema istraživanju KRIK-a, bio u kontaktu i planirao napad na proslavljenog fudbalera Nemanju Vidića. Piše: Tamara Todorović Tužilaštvo za […] The post TOK nakon otkrića KRIK-a: Tražićemo od MUP-a „skaj” poruke Slaviše Kokeze appeared first on KRIK.

Головне управління розвідки Міноборони заявило про знищення російського винищувача Міг-29 минулого тижня в окупованому Росією Криму. За даними розвідки, у ніч на 26 червня військові департаменту безпілотних систем ГУР атакували аеродром «Бельбек» – внаслідок операції знищено російський винищувач Міг 29. «Одним ударом спецпризначенці ГУР також спалили аеродромну пускову установку – в момент ураження машина обслуговувала бойовий літак російських окупантів. Орієнтовні збитки агресора можуть...