Month: May 2021

      The Bloc Québécois has reportedly failed to unanimously pass a motion recognizing Quebec’s right to unilaterally change the Constitution in line with the proposed reforms to the province’s language law. On Wednesday, Yves-Francois Blanchet tabled a motion in the House of Commons asking the lawmakers to recognize that right but confronted a single critical nay from a lone member of the Parliament. Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould destroyed the unanimity that was required for a motion tabled without official notice. In a Twitter post that was posted a…

      Gaza strip is ripped by the ongoing bloodshed and it has unleashed a chorus of voice across the states of Gulf Arab who have fiercely criticized Israel and shown their empathetic support towards Palestine. The vocal opposition to Israel is expressed on social media, through street protests, and also in newspaper columns and it has come just months after various pacts were signed for establishing ties with the Jewish state. This complicates matters and also government efforts to rally Arab citizens around the acceptance of the deals.…

      A stampede that occurred at a religious festival is attended by tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews in Northern Israel has killed at least 44 people and has injured some 150 others on early Friday, as stated by the medical officials in one of the country’s deadliest civilian disasters. The stampede reportedly occurred during the celebrations of Lag BaOmer at Mount Meron. Tens of thousands of people who are mostly ultra-Orthodox gather every year to honor Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century sage and mystic who has…