“These fees impose a significant burden on elderly Holocaust survivors, victims and heirs who often rely on these payments to meet their everyday needs,” acting Superintendent Adrienne Harris says.
"Comfort the victims of violence against women, which has increased in this time of pandemic. Offer hope to young children and adolescents suffering from bullying and abuse," Pope Francis says in annual "Urbi et Orbi" speech.
Dressed for Christmas, elephants pass out hand sanitizer and face masks to children at a school north of Bangkok.
Around 30,000 Jews whose ancestors were expelled from Portugal during the Inquisition in the 15th century are believed to have obtained Portuguese citizenship to date.
Hosting delegation of rabbis from Islamic states, Russia, Erdogan condemns "inhuman ideas such as antisemitism, intolerance toward people of different religions," calls antisemitism, hostility to Islam "crime against humanity."
Chinese official tells CNN that Beijing and Riyadh have "maintained friendly cooperation in all fields."
"If you want to have your concerns addressed, all sanctions must be lifted," Iranian state news quotes Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian saying. Meanwhile, Iraqi FM Fuad Hussein makes rare appeal for direct US-Iran talks.
German pastor hands over to city of Gorlitz four portions of Torah scroll he says his father, a German police officer, retrieved from a Gorlitz synagogue after being dispatched to the site during the riots.
Plan to subsidize Taliban fighters' monthly wages to guard UN facilities underscores ongoing insecurity in Afghanistan following US pullout.
The Illinois Investment Policy Board is scheduled to vote on divesting its pension funds of investments in Unilever at its meeting on Wednesday morning in Chicago, multiple sources told JNS.
