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Israel's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the military must begin conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, a decision that threatens to split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government amid the war in Gaza.In a unanimous decision, a nine-judge panel found that there was no legal basis for the long-standing military exemption granted to ultra-Orthodox religious students. Without a law distinguishing between seminarians and other men of military age, the court ruled, the country's mandatory bills must apply equally to the ultra-Orthodox minority.In a country where military service is mandatory for most Israeli Jews, both men and women, the exemption for the ultra-Orthodox has long sparked resentment. But anger over the group's special treatment has grown as the...

Joanna Bailey, a family doctor and obesity specialist, doesn't want to tell her patients they can't take Wegovy, but she's gotten used to it.About a quarter of the people he sees at his small clinic in Wyoming County would benefit from the weight-loss drugs known as GLP-1, which also include Ozempic, Zepbound and Mounjaro, he says. The drugs helped some of them lose 15 to 20 percent of their weight. But most people in the area where she operates don't have insurance that covers the costs, and virtually no one can afford prices of $1,000 to $1,400 a month.“Even my wealthiest patients can't afford it,” Dr. Bailey said. He then mentioned something that many doctors in West Virginia – among the poorest states in the country, with the highest prevalence of obesity, at 41%...

The International Criminal Court said Tuesday it had issued arrest warrants for two senior Russian security officials for attacks on civilian targets, sharply condemning, if largely symbolic, the Kremlin's invasion of neighboring Ukraine.The Hague court accused Russia's top military officer, General Valery V. Gerasimov, and a senior member of the country's Security Council, Sergei K. Shoigu, of directing a campaign of attacks against Ukrainian power plants in winter of 2022.“The anticipated civilian harm and incidental damage would clearly have been excessive compared to the anticipated military benefit,” the court said in a statement Tuesday, referring to the attacks. He issued the warrants Monday.Russia's Security Council denounced the mandates, calling them "pathetic" e...

European Union regulators on Tuesday accused Microsoft of violating antitrust rules by bundling its Teams video conferencing and collaboration software with a suite of other productivity tools, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals.Regulators said Microsoft's packaging of Teams with other established software tools in Office 365 and Microsoft 365, which include programs such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, amounts to an unlawful abuse of market dominance that Rival companies like Zoom and Slack couldn't match. . Regulators said companies essentially had no choice but to adopt Teams if they wanted other software made by Microsoft.The charges are just the latest in a series of announcements by the European Union in recent months in its bid to crack down on the world'...

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WEWorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamescookingNippersAtleticoJune 25, 2024, 2:24 ETAn Israeli government committee has issued a warning to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and four more on Monday as part of a years-long investigation into Germany's multibillion-dollar purchase of submarines and missile boats, an episode considered the worst corruption scandal in the country's history. In a statement, the commission said Netanyahu had endangered Israel's security and bypassed official channels with the purchase during a previous term as prime minister. It was unclear whether Netanyahu himself was suspected of corruption in the case, but the commission said it issued the warning to give him and others — including a former defense minister and a former Mossad chief — the ...

Unlike most other supplements, fish oil has been rigorously studied, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. But the results of these studies are conflicting, leaving researchers and doctors still debating whether fish oil is beneficial for heart health. They also revealed that taking fish oil is linked to a slightly increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat.That's where the evidence for both the benefits and risks of fish oil lies today.Lots of studies, but unclear benefitsAfter reading cables from Greenland, researchers began looking at people in other parts of the world and found, in study after study, that those who consumed fish at least once a week were less likely to die of coronary heart disease than thos...

The White Clam Pizza at Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut, is a revelation. The crust, kissed by the intense heat of the charcoal oven, achieves a perfect balance between crunchiness and chewiness. Topped with freshly shucked clams, garlic, oregano and a sprinkling of grated cheese, it's a testament to the magic that simple, high-quality ingredients can conjure.Do you look like me? It is not. The entire paragraph, except the name of the pizzeria and the city, was generated by GPT-4 in response to a simple message requesting a Pete Wells-style restaurant critique.I have a few quibbles. I would never call any food a revelation, nor would I describe warmth as a kiss. I don't believe in magic and rarely call something perfect without using "almost" or some ...

The Israeli Prime Minister says the war in the Gaza Strip will soon enter a new phase.“The intense phase of the war with Hamas is coming to an end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a television interview on Sunday. “This does not mean that the war is coming to an end, but that the war in its intense phase is coming to an end.”But whatever relief these comments may bring after more than six months of horrific bloodshed, Netanyahu quickly made two things clear: A ceasefire in Gaza is not within reach. And the next clash could be in Lebanon, with the forces of a Hamas ally, Hezbollah.After recalling troops to Gaza, he said: “We will be able to move part of our forces north.”Netanyahu stopped well short of announcing an invasion of Lebanon, a move that would likely result in heavy ...

Amy Conroy sat alone in a veterinary office, her hands clutching a bottle of water and her eyes blinking back tears. Her 16-year-old cat, Leisel, was having trouble breathing. She was now waiting for an update.The door opened and Laurie Maxwell entered.Ms. Maxwell works for MedVet, a 24-hour emergency veterinary hospital in Chicago. But when she sat across from Mrs. Conroy one Monday evening in May, she explained that she wasn't there for the cat. She was there for Mrs. Conroy.Ms. Maxwell is a veterinary social worker, a job in a little-known corner of the therapy world that focuses on relieving the stress, worry and pain that can arise when a pet needs medical care.Pets no longer exist on the periphery of the human family: As one example, a 2022 survey found that nearly half of Am...