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Operation Shield and Arrow: IAF assassinates Islamic Jihad officials in Gaza
Communities within 40 km of Gaza have been placed under restrictions by Home Front Command.
The IDF assassinated a number of senior officials in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist movement in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning, including the commander of the al-Quds Brigades in the northern Gaza Strip, an official responsible for terrorist activities in the West Bank and a military secretary in the movement.
At least nine Palestinians were killed in the strikes, according to Palestinian reports, with a number of sites in Gaza City and Khan Yunis targeted, among other locations.
Schools and roads closed, shelters opened in southern Israel
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared a special situation in the home front, issuing a series of restrictions on communities in southern Israel.
The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) announced the closure of the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings between the Gaza Strip and Israel after the strikes began.
The Home Front Command has directed residents of communities in southern Israel to stay near shelters and banned any gatherings in open places of over 10 people and in closed buildings of over 100 people. All schools in communities in the Lachish region, in communities near the Gaza border and in the western and central Negev will be closed on Tuesday as well.
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-742463
New York judge bars Trump from discussing certain evidence in DA Bragg prosecution
Trump's team had argued that such an order would violate his First Amendment rights.
A New York state judge has barred former President Donald Trump from posting about some evidence on social media pertaining to an ongoing prosecution from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg is pursuing charges against Trump in connection with a 2016 payment his then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
Judge Juan Merchan on Monday issued an order that prevents Trump from posting "any materials and information provided by the People to the Defense in accordance with their discovery obligations" and asserts that said materials "shall be used solely for the purposes of preparing a defense in this matter," NBC News reported.
Merchan further barred anyone with access to the evidence from giving the materials to third parties without the court's consent. Trump himself may only review some materials in the presence of his attorneys.
Bragg had previously sought such an order from the judge, pointing to Trump's history of attacking witnesses and investigators, which the DA said could compromise their safety.
Trump, Bragg's team wrote, "has a longstanding and perhaps singular history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, trial jurors, grand jurors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him."
Trump's team had argued that such an order would violate his First Amendment rights.
The former president has not publicly commented on the development as of press time.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/new-york-judge-bars-trump-discussing-certain-evidence-da-bragg-prosecution
NIH renews grant to organization that funded coronavirus experiments in Wuhan
The organization confirmed that it had "revised" the aims of its experiments amid "ongoing concerns by removing all on-the-ground work in China and all recombinant virus culture or infection experiments."
The National Institutes of Health have renewed a grant to EcoHealth Alliance, an organization that funded experiments in Wuhan at a facility identified as the possible origin point of the COVID-19 pandemic.
EcoHealth announced the renewal on Monday, noting that the grant had been suspended in April of 2020 "due to concerns about continuing collaborative laboratory research with the Wuhan Institute of Virology." EcoHealth's experiments involved on-site work at the WIV and involved the study of coronaviruses.
Formerly maligned as a conspiracy, the notion that the pandemic emerged as the result of a lab leak has increasingly gained traction among federal agencies such as the Department of Energy and the FBI. "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan," FBI Director Christopher Wray said in April.
EcoHealth has come under repeated scrutiny for its failure to disclose taxpayer-funded grants and faced criticism from the NIH itself for its "failure to comply with several elements of the terms and conditions of grant awards." Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch in April obtained records from the Department of Health and Human Services showing that the NIH had approved grants to EcoHealth to conduct experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Those projects sought to study interspecies transmission of coronaviruses and to create "mutant" strains of the virus.
The organization confirmed that it had "revised" the aims of its experiments amid "ongoing concerns by removing all on-the-ground work in China and all recombinant virus culture or infection experiments." Those aims include:
(1) identifying high-spillover risk bat SARSr-CoV sequences in southern China and assessing drivers of recombination; (2) conducting community- and clinic-based surveillance of archived pre-COVID-19 human samples to identify SARSr-CoV spillover events, routes of exposure, and potential public health consequences; and (3) characterizing SARSr-CoV binding, ability to evade therapeutics/vaccines, and identifying spillover hotspots.
They further acknowledged that they had agreed to additional oversight by the NIH and would collaborate solely with the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School.
The White Coat Waste Project, a watchdog group that monitors federal spending on animal experimentation, excoriated the grant renewal.
"The batty taxpayer-funded grant that bankrolled EcoHealth Alliance’s dangerous animal experiments in Wuhan that probably prompted the pandemic should be de-funded, not re-funded," said WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman in a statement. He went on to assert that EcoHealth had "violated a federal ban on gain-of-function research, repeatedly broke transparency law, and obstructed investigations into COVID’s origins."
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/nih-renews-grant-organization-funded-coronavirus-experiments-wuhan
India: ethnic clashes in Manipur, at least 55 dead and 260 injured
According to doctors and staff at hospitals in the city, where most of the injured people were hospitalized, the most common injuries are from firearms
At least 55 people have died and another 260 have been hospitalized after clashes broke out earlier this week in the northeastern state of Manipur between members of the Kuki and Meitei ethnic groups. This was reported to "CNN" by hospital sources in the city of Imphal, where the violence broke out. According to doctors and hospital workers in the city, where most of the injured people were hospitalized, the most common injuries are due to firearms, data also confirmed by the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, from the similar facility in Jawaharlal Nehru and Churachandpur district hospital. "Most of the patients arrive with severe bullet wounds or have been hit on the head with sticks," added Dr. Mang Hatzow of Manipur's Churachandpur District Hospital.
The government authorities in the state of Manipur nor the leaders of the Indian army have commented on the violence, during which hundreds of people poured into the streets of Imphal and many vehicles were set on fire. Earlier in the week the governor of Manipur state, Anusuiya Uikey, issued the order to shoot "on sight" in extreme cases, in an attempt to dissuade the most violent from taking to the streets. The violence erupted on Tuesday when thousands of indigenous people took part in a demonstration organized by the Manipur Tribal Students Union to protest the potential inclusion as a tribe of the Meitei, the majority ethnic group in Manipur. The Meitei community applied for recognition to the state government and the Manipur High Court on April 20 ordered the executive to consider the application within four weeks. Contesting the eventual status of recognized tribe are above all the Kuki. The dispute, however, degenerated into attacks on houses and villages, with fires and looting. The government has imposed curfews in several districts: Imphal West, Kakching, Thoubal, Jiribam, Bishnupur, Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Tengnoupal.
The northeastern state of Manipur, with the capital Imphal, was established in 1972 and has a population of just under three million. The Meitei constitute the main ethnic group; their language, Manipuri, of Burmese stock, is the official language alongside English, as well as the lingua franca of the state, inhabited by various peoples, including the Kuki and the Naga, who speak a variety of Sino-Tibetan languages. Hinduism and Christianity are the predominant religions, each with a share of about 40 percent. The economy is based on agriculture, forestry and trade, being Manipur, through the border city of Moreh, the "Gateway to the East", i.e. the neighboring Myanmar and other Southeast Asian countries. The main tourist attractions, especially naturalistic ones, are Imphal, Loktak Lake, Kaina Hill, Dzukou Valley and Keibul Lamjao National Park. The riots in Manipur, part of a wider phenomenon extending to all of North-East India, combine separatism and ethnic conflicts.
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/india-ethnic-clashes-in-manipur-at-least-55-dead-and-260-injured/
COVID Tests Declared Unsafe, Mass Recall Issued
Recall Notice - SD Biosensor, Inc. Requests Discontinuation of Use and Disposal of Specific Pilot™ COVID-19 At-Home Tests in the United States Due to Microbial Contamination in the Liquid Buffer Solution
Summary
Company Announcement Date:
May 04, 2023
FDA Publish Date:
May 05, 2023
Product Type:
Medical Devices
Reason for Announcement:
Due to microbial contamination in the liquid buffer solution.
Company Name:
SD Biosensor, Inc.
Brand Name:
Pilot
Product Description:
COVID-19 At-Home Test
Company Announcement
SEOUL, South Korea, May 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – SD Biosensor, Inc. today is requesting that consumers stop using and dispose of specific Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests in the United States because potentially harmful bacteria were found in the tube with liquid inside (pouch 2 of the kits).
The affected tests can be identified by the lot number on the outer packaging and should be appropriately discarded. Dispose of the entire test kit in the household trash. Do not pour the liquid down the drain.
Direct exposure to the liquid in the tube through misuse or spillage could potentially lead to serious illness.
To date, no such illness has been reported. If the liquid in the tube contacts your skin and eyes, flush with large amounts of water and if irritation persists, seek medical attention.
The affected test kits were distributed by Roche Diagnostics to distributors and retailers in the U.S. Product images, lot information and follow-up actions are available at go.roche.com/pilottestExternal Link Disclaimer or by contacting the Roche Customer Support Center at 1-866-987-6243 and selecting option 1.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/recall-notice-sd-biosensor-inc-requests-discontinuation-use-and-disposal-specific-pilottm-covid-19