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(Worthy News) – The United Kingdom’s Home Secretary Sajid Javid will designate the entire Lebanese organization Hezbollah as a terrorist movement at next week’s Conservative Party conference.

London-based The Jewish Chronicle first reported Javid’s anti-Hezbollah terror classification on Thursday.

The EU proscribed Hezbollah’s so-called military wing a terrorist organization in 2013. The terror classification arose because Hezbollah operatives blew up an Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria in 2012, murdering five Israelis and their Muslim Bulgarian bus driver. The terror act resulted in injuries to 32 Israelis. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Interest rates on U.S. 30-year fixed-rate mortgages increased to their highest levels in more than seven years in line with bond yields which rose on the view of sturdy economic growth and heavy debt supply, data from Freddie Mac showed on Thursday.

Thirty-year mortgage rates averaged 4.72 percent in the week ended Sept. 27, up from 4.65 percent the week before and the highest since 4.78 percent in week of April 28, 2011, the U.S. mortgage finance agency said.

On Tuesday, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield touched 3.113 percent, the highest level in four months. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – At least 10 pastors were arrested with their families last Sunday as they worshiped in church services across the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a leading persecution watchdog has reported.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a United Nations’ accredited NGO that serves in over 20 countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, reports that authorities in the state have continued their crackdowns on Christians this week.

In addition to the 10 pastors and families, police are said to have also arrested three more believers on Monday and threatened another pastor in the state in an attempt to get him to stop holding services. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh gave an intense and tearful testimony Thursday, shooting down multiple allegations of sexual abuse during a historic Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Kavanaugh called the allegations against him a “grotesque and coordinated character assassination” adding that his family and name “have been totally and permanently destroyed.”

He says part of the reason for the allegations is anger by some about President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election.

“This confirmation process has become a national disgrace,” he said. “You’ve replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Republican senators say the Judiciary Committee plans to vote Friday morning on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second ranking-Republican, had said Thursday that the GOP conference would meet and “see where we are.” They later announced that they still intended to vote Friday on Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh and a woman accusing him of sexual assault, California psychologist Christine Blasey (BLAH’-zee) Ford, spent hours testifying Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The Palestinian Authority has demanded that the Israel government transfers $360 million in back taxes it has collected for commercial activity in Area C of the West Bank.

Israel stopped transferring those funds in the year 2000, which would have amounted to an estimated $20 million a year, the PA said.

It made its demand in a report it issued for Thursday’s meeting of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Some 7,000 Christian Evangelicals from more than 100 countries took part, along with thousands of locals, in an extravaganza of color, music and flags on Thursday in the annual Jerusalem Feast of Tabernacles March.

The parade is one of the central events of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem’s (ICEJ) annual celebration in Israel.

Dozens of national delegations assembled in Jerusalem’s Sacher Park resplendent in their national costumes and carrying their nations’ flags. They wended their way through the streets of the capital down to the Liberty Bell Park next to the German Colony neighborhood. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council has said Israel will be sorry if it continues to attack Syria’s army and its allies.

Iran and Russia have both backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a seven-year war against rebels.

But Israel, increasingly concerned that its enemy Iran may establish a long-term military presence in its neighbor, says it has carried out more than 200 attacks against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years. [ Source (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that Jerusalem “is not for sale” while urging US President Donald Trump to rescind his decisions recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and cutting aid to the Palestinians, which he said had undermined the two-state solution to the Middle East conflict.

The aging Palestinian leader did not hold back on the expected broadside against Israel, which he accused of continuing a “colonial occupation” continues to “suffocate us.”

He also said that Israel’s recent passage of the Nation-State Law will lead to an apartheid state, adding that it discriminates against the country’s non-Jewish population. [ Source: Ynet News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bombshell speech at the UN Thursday, featuring revelations about a secret nuclear warehouse in the heart of Tehran, which included its precise location for people to look up at home, had everything you’d expect: It was rich on Biblical themes, included praise for Israel’s vibrant democracy, was marked by the scolding of European anti-Semitism, and contained outraged rebuttals of Palestinian accusations.

As in most of his recent UN speeches, the centerpiece of Thursday’s 40-minute address was Iran and its nuclear ambitions. But his disclosure of top-secret intelligence on the atomic warehouse may prove effective, at least temporarily, in drawing global attention to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear duplicities.

Until Netanyahu’s appearance Thursday afternoon, much of the global political and diplomatic leadership here, when considering Israel’s part of the Middle East, was, as is the norm, preoccupied with the non-existent peace process between Israelis and Palestinians, and the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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