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Robert Menendez (; born January 1, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first appointed to the U.S. Senate by Governor Jon Corzine, and chaired the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2013 to 2015, and again from 2021 to 2023.
In 1974, at the age of 20, Menendez was elected to the Union City School District's Board of Education. He received degrees from Saint Peter's University and Rutgers Law School. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Union City. In 1988, while continuing to serve as mayor, he was elected to represent the state's 33rd district in the New Jersey General Assembly and, within three years, moved to the New Jersey Senate, upon winning the March 1991 special election for the 33rd Senate district. The next year, Menendez won a seat in the House of Representatives and represented New Jersey's 13th congressional district for six two-year terms, from 1993 to 2006. In January 2006, he was appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Corzine (who had been elected governor of New Jersey), and was elected to a full six-year term in November; he was reelected in 2012 and 2018.
In 2015, Menendez was indicted on federal corruption charges; the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and the charges were dropped in 2018. In April 2018, the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics "severely admonished" Menendez for accepting gifts from donor Salomon Melgen without obtaining committee approval, for failing to disclose certain gifts, and for using his position as a senator to advance Melgen's interests.
In September 2023, Menendez was again indicted on federal corruption charges that he aided and provided sensitive information to the government of Egypt. He stepped down as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but refused to resign from the Senate and repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.

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Jättedammen på Nilen

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD or TaIHiGe; Amharic: ታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Tālāqu ye-Ītyōppyā Hidāsē Gidib, Tigrinya: ግድብ ሕዳሰ ኢትዮጵያ, Oromo: Hidha Haaromsaa Guddicha Itoophiyaa), formerly known as the Millennium Dam and sometimes referred to as the Hidase Dam (Amharic: ሕዳሴ ግድብ, romanized: Hidāsē Gidib, Oromo: Hidha Hidāsē), is a gravity dam on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia under construction since 2011. 
The dam is in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia, about 45 km (28 mi) east of the border with Sudan.The primary purpose of the dam is electricity production to relieve Ethiopia's acute energy shortage and for electricity export to neighbouring countries. With a planned installed capacity of 5.15 gigawatts, the dam will be the largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa when completed,
as well as among the 20 largest in the world.First phase of filling the reservoir began in July 2020 and in August 2020 water level increased to 540 meters (40 meters higher than the bottom of the river which is at 500 meters above sea level).
The second phase of filling was completed on 19 July 2021, water level increased to around 575 meters.
The third filling was completed on 12 August 2022 to a level of 600 metres (2,000 ft). Actual water level (November 2022) is at around 605 meters and was measured at Sentinel images. It will take between 4 and 7 years to fill with water,
depending on hydrologic conditions during the filling period.On 20 February 2022, the dam produced electricity for the first time, delivering it to the grid at a rate of 375 MW.
A second 375 MW turbine was commissioned in August 2022.

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Stora etiopiska renässansdammen (amhariska: ታላቁ የኢትዮጵያ ሕዳሴ ግድብ, Tālāqu ye-Ītyōppyā Hidāsē Gidib, TaIHiGe; engelska: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, GERD) eller Millenniedammen är en etiopisk dammanläggning, under byggande sedan 2011. Den är belägen i Benishangul-Gumuz-regionen och tänkt att dämma upp Blå Nilen, som det största dammprojektet i både Etiopien och (troligen) Afrika.
Dammbygget är i Etiopien ett högt prioriterat projekt, med möjligheten att ge stora ekonomiska fördelar för landet genom elkraft och reservoarens vattenreserver. Det riskerar dock att minska vattentillgången i både Sudan och Egypten.

Stora etiopiska renässansdammen

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Protesterna

In no way does the Swedish Government support the Islamophobic opinions that were expressed by individuals during yesterday’s demonstration in Stockholm. The Government fully understands if Muslims have been offended by these Islamophobic opinions.

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Al-Azharuniversitetet (arabiska: الأزهر الشريف, Al-ʾAzhar al-Šarīf, ”det nobla Azhar”) är ett av Egyptens främsta lärosäten, världsbekant för sin ställning som ett centrum för islamiska studier. Det är det näst äldsta universitetet i världen, och ligger i anslutning till Al-Azharmoskén i Kairo.
Universitetet började uppföras 969 av fatimiderna, som också gjorde Kairo till landets huvudstad. Den anslutande moskén invigdes 972. Universitetet invigdes under ramadan i oktober år 975 med att den rättslärde Abul Hasan Ali ibn Al-No'man föreläste om shiitisk rätt och boken Al-Ikhtisar. Under medeltiden började universitetet antaga en sunnitisk riktning.
Universitetet leds av en överimam som har titeln Sheikh Al-Azhar. Undervisningen är öppen endast för muslimer.
Universitetet motarbetar en liberal reform av islam och utfärdade år 2017 en fatwa mot den liberala Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-moskén(de) i Berlin eftersom den ej tillät ansiktstäckande slöjor i sina lokaler och den accepterade homosexuella som församlingsmedlemmar. Fatwan gällde både nutida och framtida liberala moskéer.Numera har universitetet cirka 100 000 studenter.

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