Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has demanded that the Israeli bank Mizrahi Tefahot unblock his account and allow him to make a NIS 8 million (approximately $2.2 million) donation to ZAKA, a Jerusalem-based non-governmental organization (NGO). ZAKA, which operates a specially trained team of volunteer paramedics and rescue professionals, has been …
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Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates have donated a whopping $20 billion to their Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, their largest-ever gift, they announced on Wednesday. The massive donation brings the foundation’s total endowment to $70 billion. “The great crises of our time require all of …
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In Switzerland, those who did not explicitly ‘opt out’ during their lifetimes would now be assumed to have consented to have their organs taken for transplant upon their deaths, following a referendum on Sunday. The government-backed measure was upheld by roughly 60 percent of Swiss, with a turnout of just …
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Former Norfolk Police Lieutenant William Kelly has told The Daily Mail, in an interview given on the day Rittenhouse’s not-guilty verdict came in, that he deserves his job back from the “hypocrite” police chief who fired him. Kelly, 42, made headlines in April after it was revealed he’d donated to …
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