NEW DELHI — Arvind Sonar, a 71-year-old roadside vendor in the Nashik city of India’s western state of Maharashtra, was shocked to see things like spoon and coins getting stuck to his body after getting the vaccine shot in the first week of June. His son, Jayant Sonar, had seen videos of people turning magnetic after taking the vaccine. When his parents got vaccinated, he decided to check. “After they received their doses, things were getting stuck to my father’s body, but not my mother’s,” Jayant told Zenger News. “Initially, we thought this was because of moisture, but even after he…
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WASHINGTON — Despite a lawsuit and a month-long battle South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will not get to have a fireworks display over Mount Rushmore for July 4th. She pushed for the display after President Donald J. Trump held an Independence Day celebration with fireworks and a military flyover on July 3, 2020. Last month, a federal judge blocked Noem’s efforts to force the National Park Service to grant the state a permit to shoot fireworks at Mount Rushmore National Memorial to celebrate Independence Day this year. Prior to 2020, such a permit had not been granted since 2009 because of safety…
Scientists from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, along with American and German colleagues, have developed “molecular tweezers” to destroy the biofilm that surrounds and protects antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the body. Antibiotic resistance occurs when germs like bacteria or fungi develop the ability to defeat medicines designed to kill them. Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant germs are difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to treat. The molecular tweezers developed by professor Raz Jelinek, and his PhD student Ravit Malishev from BGU’s department of chemistry, change the structural and assembly properties of the biofilm surrounding antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This clears a path for…
WASHINGTON — Every morning John Carr opens his front door on Amelia Island, Georgia, to watch the sun rise above the Atlantic Ocean. Because he is retired as a Certified Public Accountant he recently drove a friend and her family members 6,000 miles across the country and back. “I went to 22 states and eight national parks,” Carr said. “One of the greatest freedoms that we enjoy as Americans is the freedom of movement, we are free to move. “Americans went from East to West because they didn’t want to be close to their neighbors.” John Carr says that the beauty of America’s national…
A few years ago, Hong Kong was as normal as San Francisco or Vancouver. Today, civil rights of office workers are changing — creating challenges for executives who have to balance compassion with productivity. China’s 500-police officer raid of Next Digital’s pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper, Apple Daily, and arrest of employees is the type of event that executives dread. The paper reported that three executives and two senior journalists were arrested. Next Digital CEO Cheung Kim-hung and editor-in-chief Ryan Law were charged with “collusion with foreign forces” under Hong Kong’s year-old national security law, according to the paper’s Twitter account,…
A Turkish man who wanted to shoot a video while diving for his YouTube channel was shocked by the storm he encountered when he got out of the water. Erdogan Odabasi, who has been diving and spearfishing for five years, set off from Istanbul on June 16 to dive with his friends and shoot a video for his YouTube channel Aklim Mavide. He went to Saros Bay in the north of the Aegean Sea. The Gulf of Saros, called Melas Kolpos in ancient times, is the saltiest part of the Aegean Sea. It is also considered one of the cleanest…
A villa that was once the home of Adolf Hitler’s elder half-sister and welcomed many Nazi figures, including Hermann Göring, has been sold after many years for $5.4 million. The villa, known as Haus in der Sonne (House in the Sun), which once belonged to Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch (1883-1949) and her husband Martin Hammitzsch (1878-1945), was sold on July 1 to a native of Radebeul who wants to remain anonymous. Angela Hammitzsch is reported to have severed her relationship with Hitler in 1935. She and her daughter moved to the House in the Sun, and in 1936, she married…
LAGOS, Nigeria — Shooters attacked the Federal Government College in Birnin Yauri, a province in Kebbi State, north-western Nigeria, on June 18, kidnapping five teachers and more than 80 students, mostly girls. The heavily armed bandits entered the town on motorcycles from the neighboring Rijau forest in Niger State. A teacher at the school who witnessed the attack said the armed bandits broke through the gate, killed a police officer, and went straight to the students in classes. Nafiu Abubakar, the spokesperson for Kebbi State Police Command, confirmed the killing of one of his officers during the attack. “We are tracking…
NAIROBI, Kenya — Among the many students at Beauty Point College in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, there is a special cohort: 18 students with albinism, a rare genetic condition limiting the body’s ability to process melanin. They are part of a larger group, sponsored by beauty products giant L’Oréal in conjunction with the Albinism Association of Kenya to empower them economically. The program started in 2016. Elvis Makori Ombati, 26, is one of those students who feel that joining this beauty college changed his life. “I no longer feel discriminated against because of my skin color,” said Ombati to Zenger News as he filed the nails of a…
NEW DELHI — Priyanka Chopra Jonas is perhaps India’s most famous export to Hollywood, but she is not the only one. Before her, actors like Amitabh Bachchan from “The Great Gatsby” and Irrfan Khan from “The Namesake”, and “Life of Pi” made a name for themselves in international cinema. Other actors like Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Om Puri, Anupam Kher, Shabana Azmi, and Naseeruddin Shah also found work overseas. However, the equation hasn’t worked both ways. Mainstream Hollywood actors have rarely been cast in meaty roles in Indian cinema. Actors like Sylvester Stallone, Denise Richards, and Sir Ben Kingsley have appeared in…