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According to a report, the election in Estonia continues today, polling stations have been open since Monday. Estonia, a former member of the soviet union borders Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia.

Reportedly, the reform party of prime minister Kaja Kallas who was favourite to win have already conceded 28% of the vote, ekre the conservative people’s party have 21% and the centre party 18%. According to the report, the reform party are pro nato, ekra are the only party to raise concerns about sending more weapons to Kyiv. Reportedly, polling stations close at 6 pm local time, the results should be counted by midnight.

According to a report, the leader of sinn féin in northern Ireland has called on the democratic unionist party to show leadership and lift its blockade on Stormont, though Sinn féin were the leading party in the May 2022 election. According to the democratic vote sinn féin should show leadership and carry on at Stormont until such a time as the dup wish to reconvene or there is another election.

According to a report, a trade border was established in the Irish sea to avoid a politically divisive land border between northern Ireland and the republic, an eu member state. Reportedly, new northern Ireland protocol resulted in unionists and the uk conservative government complaining that northern Ireland would be subject to new eu laws without having a say in influencing them. According to the report, the Stormont break will allow thirty of the ninety members of the northern Ireland legislative assembly from atleast two parties to allow the northern Ireland assembly to ask the uk government to apply an emergency brake that would block or delay any new eu law that affects northern Ireland. Reportedly, this gives the assembly a say in any new eu laws applying to the north.

According to the report, the british prime minister said the new windsor framework would give the northern Ireland assembly a clear process to pull an emergency brake to stop any new eu laws or law changes that would have significant and lasting effects on every day lives; but reportedly, his hopes of ending years of brexit infighting with a revised deal was dealt a double blow as former prime minister Boris Johnson said it would stifle the uk economically, while pressure mounted within the democratic unionist party to reject the deal.

According to a report, as the tourist season begins the department of integration has begun contacting refugees who are living in hotels telling them they are being moved. Reportedly, an unknown number of contracts due to end at the end of April will not be renewed and the department is unable to say what kind of emergency accommodation will be provided. Reportedly, all affected residents will shortly receive a letter telling them their current temporary accommodation is coming to an end but they will be reccommended in another location in the coming weeks.

According to the report, the department of integration has contacted a u.n. agency, the international organisation for migration to seek assistance on planning emergency accomodation for asylum seekers, as procuring enough beds to keep pace with arrivals is very challenging. Reportedly, no firm proposals have emerged from the contact and all options are being explored including tents, office buildings and sports facilities.

According to the report, the government has approved a €20 million plan for the development of five large accommodation centres with the site for the stalled super prison, Thornton Hall expected to be the first to be developed. Reportedly, civil servants are being given funding of €50 million to develop projects for accommodation. According to the report, a new migration agency will look after the needs of migration in the future.

Reportedly, the government has sourced accommodation for 60,000 people, 20,000 seeking accommodation in state provided or state funded accommodation. According to a report, from December 2022 a tax free accommodation recognition payment of €800 per month will be paid for each property used to house refugees, the property must meet the required standards. Reportedly, there are 11,754 homeless people in Ireland. Perhaps they might benefit from a similar payment.

According to a report, the chief of the russian military group, wagner said his fighters had practically encircled the eastern city of Bakhmut, there is only one road left to get out. Reportedly, on Friday he called on the president of Ukraine to withdraw his troops. According to the report, the battle of Bakhmut has been raging since Summer and has led to great destruction and heavy losses on both sides. Reportedly, on Friday the ukrainian army said it had repelled 85 russian attacks on the city in 24 hours. According to the report, ukrainian soldiers reported a lack of men, ammunition and artillery support. Bakhmut had a prewar population of 70,000. There are now 4,500 inhabitants.

Reportedly, on Thursday Ukraine ordered vulnerable people to evacuate the city of Kupiansk on the north eastern front which is at risk of being taken over by russian forces. According to the report, the mandatory evacuation of families with children and people with mobility problems has begun due to intense shelling. Reportedly, the government of the Kharkiv region said that several localities including Kupiansk have been shelled by multiple rocket launchers.

According to reports, thousands have taken to the streets of Israel in protest of the government’s judicial reforms. Reportedly, police threw stun grenades in an effort to clear the Ayalon highway, Tel Aviv on Wednesday. According to a report, academics announced a petition on Thursday morning, signatories include professors, researchers and administrators from various Israeli universities.

Reportedly, the balance of powers was damaged by the High Court of justice’s 1990’s constitutional revolution. According to the report, the court has gained too many powers, including judicial review of basic law and increased scope of the reasonableness clause.

Herod Antipas was a son of king Herod and bore the title tetrarch (ruler of a quarter of the land). He ruled Galilee and Peroa, east of the Jordan from 4 bc to 39 ordinary time. He is widely known for the murder of John the baptist.

When Herod the tetrarch took his brother Philip’s wife, Herodius, John said it was unlawful. According to the 1st Century writer Josephus, Herod didn’t kill him because of the great influence he had over the people who might start a rebellion. On Herod’s birthday the daughter of Herodius danced for his guests and he promised to give her anything she wanted. She asked for John’s head on a plate. Herod ordered that her request be granted and had John beheaded in prison. His head was brought to the girl on a platter which she brought to her mother. John’s disciples took his body and buried it, then went and told Jesus. Herod Antipas died in exile in France or Spain not before 39 ordinary time.

According to a report, a meeting of g20 foreign ministers is taking place in New Delhi on Thursday, the first time the u.s. secretary of state and the russian prime minister will be in the same room since the g20 meeting in Bali last July. Reportedly, representatives of 40 countries including non g20 members and multinational organisations are meeting to discuss the global economy.

According to the report, the meeting comes days after a meeting of finance ministers and the central bank govenors failed to come up with a joint statement over insurmountable differences between the countries. Reportedly, the first anti corruption working group was held on February 28.

According to reports, there were 68 Palestinian refugee camps, 58 official and ten unofficial. Reportedly, most were established between 1948-50 during the arab Israeli war, ten were established in 1967 during the six day war. According to a report, any Palestinian suspected of terrorism was relocated to Gaza along with his family. Reportedly, there were 22 camps in Gaza though many are now villages with houses. According to reports, blockades and controls have resulted in a high level of unemployment and poverty, many are dependant on food and cash assistance from unrwa, the u.n. relief and works agency for Palestine. Reportedly, other problems are water contamination and sewage works

According to reports, hamas took control of Gaza from fatah, the Palestinian nationalist party in 2007. Reportedly, hamas held 74 of the 132 seats of the palestinian legislative council, but since 2007 the plc has not convened. According to a report, new Israeli controls came into effect in May 2022, resulted in the restriction and tracking of foreign nationals in the palestinian communties.

The old city of Jerusalem is a 0.9 square km walled area in east Jerusalem. The temple mount is a hill in the old city and the old site of the temple of Jerusalem. The retaining walls include the western wall, built by king Herod to renovate the second temple. It replaced Solomon’s temple which was destroyed by Assyrians during the Babylonian empire. The second temple was rebuilt by jewish men after returning from Babylon in 538 bc. It was destroyed by roman soldiers around 70 ordinary time.

Judea was a client kingdom of Rome. Herod I, called Herod the great was appointed king of the jews around 40 bc, largely because of his father who had been a client to the greek empire state and had good relations with Julius Caesar. He was probably palestinian. His mother converted to judaism. He is believed to have been born in Judea or his father’s birth place of Edom (southern Israel). His parents and Edomites are identified by a contemporary as being Idumaean (Arabian), possibly a political persuasion, also the majority of the population of western Judea. Probably from Iraq or Jordan.

Herod’s elder brother served as governor of Jerusalem, and Herod who was appointed a client general of Syria ruled Judea semi autonomously. He was known for his building works. The enclosure around the cave of the patriarchs, the port at Caesarea, the fort at Masada and the Herodium.

Jesus of Nazareth was born into the Herodian kingdom of Judah. Herod is attributed to an order to murder every male child two years and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus. A majority of Herodian biographers discount this. He died of a painful disease of unknown cause around 4 bc in Jericho.