Year: 2022

Certain criteria need to be met by the US to provide ground for such negotiations, a top foreign ministry official says
The US needs to stop arming Kiev and recognize reality on the ground in Ukraine for any talks on security guarantees between Moscow and Washington to begin, Alexander Darchiyev, who heads the North America department in the Russian Foreign Ministry, has said.

The surging cost of essentials like bread leave the most vulnerable the worst off, a study has found
The rate of food inflation in the UK has reached its maximum since 1977, with consumers in poorer areas reporting they are buying less food, a survey by the Office for National Statistics published on Thursday shows.
Lower-income households appear to be the hardest hit by spiraling inflation, with 61% of consumers living in the most deprived areas buying less when food shopping compared to last year, as opposed to 44% in the least deprived areas.

Jason Jimenez, an apologist and host of the “Challenging Conversations” podcast, recently commenced an episode of his show with a fascinating question: How many of you believe in the virgin birth?
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It’s an essential inquiry in an era hyper-focused on the material and the self — and one obviously worth pondering during the Christmas season. Apologists like Jimenez also believe this is especially important to tackle during a time when secularism rages and progressive ideologies dismiss basic biblical tenets.

Facebook parent Meta has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running lawsuit that accused the social network of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data. The amount was disclosed in a court filing late on Thursday. “The proposed settlement of $725,000,000 is the largest recovery ever achieved in a […]
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Christmas not only involves decorating, organizing family gatherings and engaging in the mad rush to buy gifts. It also involves listening to songs that aren’t played for roughly 48 of any given year’s 52 weeks.
One such song makes a simple yet poignant connection between an anonymous baby resting in a feeding trough and a well-known adult destined to redeem humanity through his death. It also issues a subtle yet powerful challenge to anyone listening to it.
Sadly, that same song generates controversy.
“Mary, Did You Know?” was first released on an album in 1991.

In internet forums over the past several weeks, Islamic State members have expressed cautious optimism about the benefits of a potential Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria. For the group’s scattered fighters, further Turkish attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces could represent a unique opportunity to reconstitute their strength. Given the organization’s weakened (yet resilient) […]
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