An intermittent beep marks the rhythm in the operating room. There is no music and no one is speaking. Only a high-pitched tone of the vital signs monitor breaks the silence. It’s 9.30am. On the operating table, a woman is already under anesthesia. Around her, a dozen doctors move in an orderly chaos – the operation has begun. The technical term for it is nephrectomy, but colloquially it is known as a kidney transplant. The woman is the donor, and the recipient is her son.
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Hungary tells UK Jewish group to ‘mind its own business’ over antisemitism
Quiet New fascists at work; they don’t want to be disturbed with facts

President of Board of Deputies of British Jews had raised concerns over stance of Hungary’s PM and government
A Hungarian government minister has accused a senior representative of British Jews of politically-motivated lying, telling her to “mind your own business” following a meeting in which she raised concerns about antisemitism.
The secretary of state, Vince Szalay-Bobrovniczky, wrote to Marie van der Zyl, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, this week to take issue with the board’s account of a meeting between the pair.
Cannabis smoking in teenage years linked to adulthood depression
What distilleries paid for the study?

Study finds one in 14 cases in under-35s could be avoided if teenagers did not use the drug
Scientists believe they have identified about 60,000 cases of depression in adults under 35 in the UK, and more than 400,000 in the US, that could be avoided if adolescents did not smoke cannabis.
An international team of scientists looked at 11 studies published from the mid-1990s onwards, involving a total of more than 23,000 people, they report in the journal JAMA Psychiatry. They explored the use of cannabis for non-medicinal purposes in under-18s. Participants were then followed into adulthood to see who developed clinical depression, anxiety or suicidal behaviour. No single study looked at all three mental health issues.
Sri Lanka advertises for two hangmen as country resumes capital punishment
President should do his own killing – not really but what a dirt wad!

Death penalties to resume as part of Philippines-inspired campaign to be tough on drug crime
Sri Lankan prison authorities are recruiting two hangmen after the president pledged to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers amid alarm over drug-related crime.
Interviews of the candidates will be conducted next month and two will be hired, prison department spokesman Thushara Upuldeniya said Wednesday.
Kremlin aims to unplug Russian internet from World Wide Web
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Russia’s Duma has given its initial approval for a draft law that would create a domestic internet. The stated intent is to protect Russia from external threats. But critics worry that it would facilitate censorship.
Trump supporter attacks BBC camera operator during rally

A supporter of Donald Trump attacks a BBC camera operator while the US President spruiks his border policies at a rally in El Paso, Texas.
‘This Is My Space’: Kirsten Gillibrand’s Unabashedly Feminist Campaign
The New York senator has chosen a singular path to the presidency, making running as a woman, for women, the central theme of her campaign.
Twitter trolls stoked debates about immigrants and pipelines in Canada, data show

Twitter trolls tried to stoke fears about pipelines and immigration in Canada, according to a CBC/Radio-Canada analysis of 9.6 million tweets from accounts linked to suspected foreign influence campaigns.
Trump administration still separating families at border, advocates say

Annunciation House shelter still receives calls each week about new cases of separations in El Paso, legal coordinator said
The Trump administration is still tearing young children away from their parents when they cross the US-Mexico border unlawfully, despite formally ending the policy of family separations last summer, according to immigration advocates in Texas.
Related: ‘Inexplicable cruelty’: US government sued over family separations at border
Finnish Volunteers ‘Very Likely’ Participated in Killing of Jews in WWII
A report commissioned by Finland’s government found that volunteers in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS “very likely took part in the killing of Jews, other civilians and prisoners of war.”
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