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Are the Taliban descendants of Israel? By MICHAEL FREUND  Pashtun practices include circumcision on the eighth day and refraining from mixing meat and milk — Is there a connection to ancient Hebrews?    SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 04:16 With the fall of Kabul into the hands of the Taliban just shy of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the world’s attention has once again turned to Afghanistan. Tucked away in south-central Asia, with unsavory neighbors such as Iran to the west and Pakistan to the east, the landlocked country, which once served as a base of operations for al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden, is as beguiling as it is complex. And yet amid its turbulent past, in which it has served as a flashpoint for the British Empire, the Soviet Union and now the United States, Afghanistan has long been home to one of the more intriguing unsolved mysteries of Jewish history: the fate of some of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Periodically over the past two decades, newspaper ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar with her husband Ahmed Hirsi Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband wants divorce after affair bombshell:   Ebony Bowden  MINNEAPOLIS — Rep. Ilhan Omar’s marriage appears to be headed for the rocks, a longtime friend of the couple told The Post. The congresswoman’s husband, Ahmed Hirsi, the source said, is poised to file for divorce after the revelation in a bombshell court filing that she allegedly had an affair with DC political consultant Tim Mynett. The Minnesota congresswoman and her husband allegedly separated in March, and Omar asked Hirsi to divorce her around that time because she didn’t want to file the papers — but Hirsi refused, telling her if she wanted a divorce she should do it herself, said the source, who has known both parties for 20 years. The husband allegedly changed his mind after Tim Mynett’s wife last week filed bombshell divorce papers claiming her spouse was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — with Hirsi said to b...

The former Russian reality television show host, Ksenia Sobchak, says she’s channelling the “Trump effect” in her campaign for the Russian presidency. “My popularity is huge. I’m the only person … known to all Russian people like Putin. There is no one else in the country who is as well-known as me,” the 36-year-old said in an interview with the Associated Press. WATCH: Russia’s ruling party seeks Putin’s ‘ultimate victory’ at 2018 election Russian President  Vladimir Putin  has been in power for three terms, and announce near the end of last year that he would seek re-election once again. The president enjoys an approval rating of more than 80 per cent, though he’s been accused of unfairly compromising elections in the past. Sobchak has been vocal about wanting political change in Russia, and first got involved in politics when she joined the massive protests against Putin in 2011-12. READ MORE:  Russia’s It Girl makes splash by joining ranks ...

Getting child labor out of supply chains By   Emily Louise Bowman  - Oct 12, 2017 Ten percent of the world’s children — 152 million — are used as laborers. Half of those children perform hazardous tasks such as spraying pesticides, descending into mine shafts and diving underwater to untangle fishing nets. Those grim statistics are reported by the U.S. Department of Labor in  its assessment of the state of child labor  in 135 countries. Children often are forced to do menial, unskilled tasks. But these boys are studying tailoring at a center in India so they can support themselves later. (© Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images) “These practices create not only human rights abuses, but they create an uneven playing field, making it hard for businesses that play by the rules to compete. A country’s failure to stop the exploitation of its labor force undermines the well-being of American workers and other workers around the world,” U.S...