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For the past couple of years, leaders in Australia’s Jewish community have been seeing a rise in antisemitism and urging the country’s leaders to act. But Australia, like other countries grappling ...

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A sign — a sign in Jerry Lee Clarke’s front yard. That’s what started it all. It was a few weeks after Donald Trump’s second inauguration and the self-employed house painter wanted to speak his mind.

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To vape or not to vape? That is the question sparking a heated debate this week in Geneva where over 1,400 delegates have gathered to discuss the World Health Organization's tobacco control treaty and ...