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The company announced it's introducing Apple TV Plus, its own TV and movie streaming service, a branded credit card and a news subscription service Monday.

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Easy Easter Brunch Recipes, From Quiche to Sweet Rolls

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In between church and hunting for eggs, you'll need to feed the fam. These delicious Easter brunch recipes will make everyone happy-we've got sweet and savory recipes alike. And if you're hosting dinner later in the day, we've got plenty of plenty of Easter recipe inspiration for you.

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President Trump says U.S. should recognize Israel's sovereignty over disputed Golan Heights!

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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. should recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a controversial move that critics said would further inflame tensions in the Middle East.

Trump made the announcement in a tweet on Thursday, arguing that the disputed territory is critical to Israel's security. Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syrian control during the Six Day war in 1967.

The move overturns decades of U.S. foreign policy and contradicts a United Nations resolution, which calls on Israel to end its occupation of the Golan Heights. Previous U.S. administrations have labeled the territory as "occupied" and declined to recognize Israel's annexation.

"After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!" Trump tweeted.

Trump's decision comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is mired in a corruption scandal and in the midst of a bruising re-election campaign. Israel's attorney general announced last month that he would indict Netanyahu on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges pending a final hearing.

That news has clouded Netanyahu's bid for another term, with Israelis set to vote on April 9 in the country's general elections.

Trump's statement Thursday handed Netanyahu a major domestic-policy win that could help distract from the corruption case. Trump sent his tweet as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was in Jerusalem, meeting with the Israeli leader and visiting the Western Wall, among other sites.

"Trump has just made history," Netanyahu told reporters as he prepared to have dinner with Pompeo at his residence. "I called him. I thanked him on behalf of the people of Israel. He did it again."

Trump has made a series of policy decisions that favor Israel, most notably moving the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to to Jerusalem - a city claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians as their capital.

"The message that President Trump has given the world is that America stands by Israel," Netanyahu declared.

Saeb Erakat, a top official with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, blasted Trump's move, saying via Twitter that it was certain to bring "destabilisation and bloodshed in our region."

Middle East experts said Trump's Golan Heights statement was essentially a gift to Netanyahu's campaign, which has emphasized his sharp foreign-policy skills. And some expressed fear that it would embolden Israel to annex the West Bank.

"The U.S. position was always that the status (of the Golan Heights) would be determined in negotiations between Israel and its neighbors," said Daniel Byman, professor and senior associate dean at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service.

He said U.S. recognition of Israeli control over the Golan Heights is not as significant as Trump's other Israeli-related policy changes, particularly the U.S. Embassy move. But "it's a real shift" and will serve to remind Israeli voters of Netanyahu's close relationship with Trump, Byman said.

The Israel Policy Forum, which is focused on building support in the U.S. for a two-state solution, said Trump's decision was the right one. But it questioned the timing and suggested it could be counterproductive.

"Coming so close to Israel's elections, this appears to be a thinly veiled attempt to bolster Prime Minister Netanyahu's re-election efforts rather than a move whose timing is dictated by pure policy considerations," the group said in a statement. "Highlighting it now may actually be counterproductive, as it would bring attention to an issue that has been under the radar and would risk inflaming the situation in southern Syria by baiting Syrian forces or other pro-regime elements into carrying out a response."

Trump denied he was trying to boost Netanyahu before Israel's April 9 election.

"I wouldn't even know about that," Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Thursday. "I don't know if he's doing great right now, but I hear he's doing OK."

Trump said he's been considering the shift for a long time.

"It's been a very hard decision for every president, no president has done it," he told Fox. "Every president has said 'do that,' I'm the one that gets it done."

Israel's control of the Golan Heights has given it a buffer on its northern border, strengthening its hand against hostile Iranian and Syrian forces.

After 52 years it is time for the United States to fully recognize Israel's Sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which is of critical strategic and security importance to the State of Israel and Regional Stability!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 21, 2019

Others argued that it could bolster anti-Israel extremists and further imperil efforts to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.

"Trump's Twitter recognition of Israel's Golan Heights annexation does nothing to bolster Israeli security," Ori Nir, communications director at Americans for Peace Now, which advocates for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said in a statement. "It does, however, hinder its prospects to reach peace with the Palestinians and the Arab world. That is bad for Israeli and US national security."

Nir said that previous peace initiatives have stipulated that Arab states would normalize relations and sign peace agreements with Israel if it settled its conflict with the Palestinians and its territorial dispute with Syria. Trump's move could also "further radicalize anti-Israel extremists in the region, fueling Iran-supported militias and terrorist groups to attack Israel," Nir argued.

But Trump's move won praise from Republican foreign policy hawks.

"The Golan was used by Syria in 2 wars of aggression against Israel," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted after Trump's announcement. "Additionally Syria's Assad, Iran, & Hezbollah need to pay a price for dismembering Syria. To return the Golan Heights to Syria would be to reward aggression and put the Jewish State at perpetual risk."

President Trump's decision to recognize the Golan as part of Israel is strategically wise and overall awesome.

Well done, Mr. President!

Now I, along with Senator @tedcruz, will try to get Congress to follow your lead. https://t.co/esjggBDawq

- Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 21, 2019
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: President Trump says U.S. should recognize Israel's sovereignty over disputed Golan Heights

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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. should recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, a controversial move that critics said would further inflame tensions in the Middle East. Trump made the announcement in a tweet on Thursday, arguing that the disputed territory is critical to Israel's security.

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Women’s Day 2019 in Colombia – Flowers and violence Día de la Mujer 2019 en Colombia - Flores y la violencia 

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Women’s Day 2019 in Colombia – Flowers and violence Día de la Mujer 2019 en Colombia - Flores y la violencia 

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On International Women's Day, tradition for Colombia's women is to be showered with flowers and gifts. But what is the reality of Colombian women for the other 364 days a year?

In the corridors of power, gestures of equality are made - like President Ivan Duque's gender-balanced cabinet - but women only hold 20% of seats in Congress: the situation only worsens the further women are from official power.

Violent and sexual crime against women are high and rising, and entrenched machista culture excludes women from equality and human rights in a huge range areas, from economic rights to bodily autonomy.

This violence and exclusion intersects with issues of socio-economic class, racism, homophobia and transphobia, making certain groups of women subject to overlapping and reinforcing patterns of power.

It's worrying that a country which is constructing a democracy has no intention of changing the culture.

Between January 2018 and February 2019, 1,080 women were murdered, 12 more than in the year before. The most affected group was between 20 and 24 years old.

In around 40% of cases, the murderer is a family member or partner - current or former. While in more developed regions like Antioquia and Bogota the rate is decreasing, in areas like Arauca (near the border with Venezuela), the rate has tripled.

In 2015, Colombia passed a specific law on femicide, defined as the killing of a woman by a man because of her gender. 16 Latin American countries now have a specific law for this crime: the continent has the highest global rate of this form of murder.

Despite this law, impunity (i.e. perpetrators facing no legal consequences) remains high, and emboldens other perpetrators: it has been estimated at up to 80%.

In over 95% cases of sexual violence against women between 2016 and 2018, the legal proceedings remained in the inquiry stage, never making it to prosecution. Bogotá councilman Yefer Vega warned that only one in ten registered cases of femicide are even reported to the authorities.

The message is that it's fine, that a man can hit a woman and nothing happens. Our institutions are prolonging cycles of violence."

Angela Gomez, Law Professor at the Universidad Libre
Lack of access to legal institutions and education around human rights are also factors, particularly in rural areas. "The negligence and ineffectiveness of the State in dealing with the situation in terms of prevention, sanction and guarantees of non-repetition is alarming. If in a city like Bogotá these rights are still not guaranteed, imagine what could happen in municipalities as far away as Caparrapí ( Cundinamarca)," Director of women's rights group Casa de la Mujer' Olga Sanchez said.

The group has also expressed concern about the number of crimes occurring on Colombia's roads and in public spaces -almost 61,000 in the last five years. Sanchez called it the "the naturalization of violence against women, the fact that their bodies are something that can be possessed, raped and murdered, without implying even social consequences."

The rise in sexual crimes against women last year was significant, at 9.5% between January and October last year, according to the Medical Examiner's Office.

In 2017, the last year with full statistics, more than 20,000 women reported rape. This means that a women or girl was raped in Colombia almost every 20 minutes, not counting the rapes that went unreported.

Some 87% of these crimes are committed against children and adolescents, in 76% of the cases by somebody close to the victim - a family member or ex-partner.

The president himself is self-professedly anti-abortion due to his Catholic beliefs: "I believe life begins at the point of conception."

Abortion in Colombia is legal only in the following circumstances, as of 2006:

The continuation of the pregnancy constitutes a danger to the life or health of the mother;

The existence of life-threatening fetal malformations;

The pregnancy is the result of rape, non-consensual artificial insemination or incest.

Even when fulfilling these criteria, accessing abortion services has proven difficult however, with evasion and postponement by the medical establishment until it is too late for the procedure, effectively forcing women to give birth.

It is estimated that 99% of abortions in Colombia are carried out illegally: 400,000 illegal abortions per year, with women facing huge risks in seeking procedures, as well as facing ongoing cultural taboos around the procedure. The Ministry of Health has reported around 10,000 visits from women experiencing complications from illegal abortion procedures.

According to the World Health Organization, 47,000 women die every year due to illegal abortion, three quarters of these in Latin America and Africa.

Women in Colombia have a 58.8% labor force participation rate, while men have a rate of 82.6%, according to figures released by the United Nations. Colombia's Vice President Marta Lucia Ramirez, however, released figures in December revealing that unemployment among women in Colombia is almost 70% higher than among men, at around 12.8%.

This situation is more extreme in early life: nearly a third of women between the ages of 15 and 24 are neither in school nor employed, compared with 13.4% of men of the same age.

Women are often, however, engaged in unpaid and uncredited domestic labor. Women over the age of 15 spend an average 16% of the day on unpaid domestic labor and chores: almost four times the amount of time men spend on the same.

According to the Vice President, men earned 17.5% more than women for the same job and with the same skill set in 2017. In the USA, this figure was 19.5%. in Italy, 6.5%.

Even though the indicators of poverty in the country have fallen, the number of women in poverty continues to grow."

Economist Ana Isabel Arenas

Less than half of women in Colombia have their own account at a bank or financial institution.

The feminization of poverty is the way in which the economic model negatively impacts women. Access to education, the perpetuation of gender roles, and the distribution of unpaid labor are among factors which increase women's poverty. There are also taxes on certain goods, and cultures around financial control in the household.

In a statement for International Women's Day, United Nations human rights experts called for an end to the taboo around menstrual health and products.

Sanitary hygiene products are often inaccessible or too costly, particularly for women and girls living in poverty and in situation of crisis, and States are often silent on those issues in their policies. In such situations, women and girls can be pushed to use improvised, unhygienic materials that may lead to leaking and infection and put their health at serious risk."

United Nations Experts including Dubravka Šimonovic, Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its root causes and consequences

Colombia is progressive on menstrual justice in certain ways: in 2018, Colombia's constitutional court decided that 5% tax levied on menstrual products was unacceptable.

This is a positive step towards tackling gendered poverty, though the new budget has been criticized for not doing enough to tackle gender inequality. Many countries in Europe maintain a tax on menstrual products, classing them as 'luxury items'.

Education inclusion is more or less equal in Colombia, with literacy rates on a par. Women and men also complete close to the same number of years of education.

During his election campaign, Duque claimed he had "great respect" for the LGBTQ+ community, but his government is backed by conservative and religious groups that view homosexual acts as a sin, and who are gaining influence in the country. LGBTQ+ women are discriminated against both in culture and by state institutions.

Though Colombia is steeped in homophobia, trans inclusion in terms of the law is reasonably progressive, comparative to the region: in 2015, constitutional courts ruled that all citizens had the right to have their gender identity legally recognized, and could choose their own name and gender on their national ID card. Also, in December 2018, the first murder of a trans woman was recognized as 'femicide', acknowledging the gender of the victim.

Trans women still, however, face disproportionate violence and murder: life expectancy for trans women in Latin America is between 35 and 41 years old. Poor access to health care and societal discrimination remain major issues.

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On International Women's Day, tradition for Colombia's women is to be showered with flowers and gifts. But what is the reality of Colombian women for the other 364 days a year? In the corridors of power, gestures of equality are made - like President Ivan Duque's gender-balanced cabinet - but women only hold 20% of seats in Congress: the situation only worsens the further women are from official power.

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The adorable reason why F1 star Daniel Ricciardo has been nicknamed 'Avocado'

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Daniel Ricciardo has recently found himself the subject of much amusement - and his Formula 1 rival Lewis Hamilton has now got in on the act.

Ricciardo became one of the key talking points last weekend when a young fan accidentally gave him a hilarious nickname.

During his home Australian Grand Prix, a local news channel asked Louis Pope who his favourite driver is, only for the youngster to reply with "Danny Avocado".

The response soon caught on and the world of social media got involved by mocking up various images of the Renault racer.

And Pope's dreams were later realised when he got to meet his hero in the Melbourne paddock during race week.

Both were decked in Renault gear as the pair enjoyed a humorous exchange that included Ricciardo asking the youngster whether he goes nightclubbing.

To make the interview even better, this chat took place while the delighted youngster clutched an avocado.

And Hamilton has become the latest to give his take on the hilarious incident by posting a picture of the pair on social media.

He captioned his post: "Avocado and Ham", accompanied by a laughing emoji.

Ricciardo, known for his charisma, is certainly enjoying the nickname, and responded to Hamilton in hilarious fashion.

He wrote: "Hahaha! Hell of a sandwich."

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Why Ricciardo has been nicknamed 'Avocado' - and Hamilton gets involved

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Daniel Ricciardo has recently found himself the subject of much amusement - and his Formula 1 rival Lewis Hamilton has now got in on the act. Ricciardo became one of the key talking points last weekend when a young fan accidentally gave him a hilarious nickname.