Terwijl zaterdag de eerste fase van het staakt-het-vuren tussen Israël en Hamas eindigde, liet Israël weten voor het vervolg een Amerikaans plan te steunen voor verlenging van die eerste fase gedurende de ramadan en het joodse pesach, in plaats van over te gaan naar de afgesproken tweede fase. Zolang Hamas hier niet mee instemt, wordt alle humanitaire hulp naar Gaza tegengehouden. Vrachtwagens met voedsel, tenten en brandstof kunnen daardoor sinds zondag niet meer de grenzen over.
De hulpgoed...

Gaan met die banaan? Dat was de vraag voor zeven bieders tijdens een kunstveiling in New York op woensdagavond. Het kunstwerk, een banaan die met ducttape aan een muur is geplakt, werd voor 6,2 miljoen dollar (bijna 5,9 miljoen euro) verkocht. Na een veiling van vijf minuten werd crypto-entrepreneur Justin Sun de gelukkige eigenaar.
„Dit is niet alleen een kunstwerk, dit vertegenwoordigt een cultureel fenomeen dat een brug slaat tussen de werelden van kunst, memes [internetplaatjes] en de crypto...

For years, emergency medical services in Vermont and in many rural parts of the country relied entirely on volunteers. But more recently, volunteerism has dwindled and providers throughout the state have transitioned to a different model.

“We at one point had 75 volunteers on a roster,” Colleen Ballard, executive director of Essex Rescue, said. She now counts 12, with two on leave.

As the volunteer pool shrank, Essex Rescue had two options: stop its services or start hiring paid staff. It opte

Now that the countdown to Christmas is in full force, less-organized shoppers who celebrate the holiday may still be searching for this year’s Christmas tree. With some farms sold out of inventory and already closed, panic is possible.

Although the supply of locally grown trees is tight this year, industry observers, including Jim Horst, the executive director of the New Hampshire-Vermont Christmas Tree Association, have an assuring message.

“Most people that want to buy a Christmas tree are g

A youth facility in Tennessee that Vermont has been using since 2020 is abusive, unethical and unsanitary, according to recent findings of New Hampshire’s Office of the Child Advocate, which described “a culture of shame, humiliation, and inhumane punishment endemic to the program.”

The report prompted New Hampshire officials to remove two teenagers placed by that state with the Bledsoe Youth Academy and to decertify the facility, around the same time that Texas also stopped sending children th

As Israelis continue to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s power grab, the Druze flag — characterized by its green triangle and four stripes of red, yellow, blue and white — has been conspicuously absent. This is despite the fact that the country’s crisis is deepening, as a far-right coalition targets democratic institutions and solidifies Israel’s identity as exclusively Jewish, disenfranchising minorities like the Druze, who have traditionally enjoyed full citizenship rights.

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Since the 2020 closing of Woodside, Vermont’s only juvenile detention center, the state has struggled to find beds for justice-involved youths. Plans for new placements have been proposed, changed, or gone through lengthy legal battles with local communities. In some cases, juveniles have been placed in adult prisons.

Now, the state Department for Children and Families is aiming to create what it says is a better way of meeting the needs of juveniles caught up in the justice system, one that mo