5 Israeli leaders who deserve your attention
Written by Emily Jane Fox, CNN Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rise from bus conductor to being a leader of the West Bank settler movement is well documented. But here are five other Israeli…
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Chinese electric-car dominance puts US and European automakers on high alert
Although Chinese companies are among the most successful in the world in selling electric vehicles (EVs), this dominance has placed automakers in Western Europe and the United States on high alert. Volkswagen of Germany…
Donald Trump “calls for resignation” of ‘morally bankrupt’ Activision CEO
Media mogul Donald Trump says Activision CEO Bobby Kotick should resign from the industry’s executive board for “moral reasons”. The American president also tweeted that “he does not want to see what is happening…
A Marine Vet Who Is Giving Saving Ailing Seals A New Mean Name
When the seals in Maine start getting into trouble, one woman from Portland calls. Veterinarian Dr. Hannah Wilhelm, who founded the Maine Seal Project in 2000, is a hero of sorts among environmentalists. In…
Earth to the Volcano: How Japanese Wild Animals Foundes Resurfaced After Fukushima and Sold World
(Photo by Gulustan Ashrafshanov/Shutterstock) In the wake of Fukushima, wildlife has been thriving. The Southern Siberian Tiger is not only recolonizing areas, it’s getting its hair back on its head! The area was originally…
Heroin overdose deaths at record high in England and Wales
Image copyright Chris Morris/Getty Images Image caption Dr John Cawdrey of the Department of Poison and Virology at Imperial College London Overdose deaths from heroin and heroin-mixing injected drug use reached a record high…
15-year-old takes mom’s gun to school, brings .357 magnum to 3rd-floor classroom in northwest D.C. shooting
UPDATE: A manslaughter charge has been brought against an eighth-grader who remains hospitalized, but has not yet been formally charged with murder. (Read more here.) Just before 7:30 Friday morning, a 15-year-old and a…
US condemns Israeli settlement expansion, says it was a ‘major obstacle’ to peace
By Shadi Hamid and Brian Schaffner The United States strongly condemned Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank on Thursday, labeling it a “major obstacle” to peace and saying it took the Trump administration’s…
Rising gas prices cut 30% out of Germany’s GDP
Berlin, Germany, December 11th, 2017:Gas prices in Europe jumped and proved more than the price of oil, as the German government just announced a 60 day suspension of the approval of the pipeline project,…
Astronomer’s tip: meteor shower will appear on 28 November – from Earth
Much of Northern & Eastern Europe will be treated to the spectacle. Space says: “A new generation of meteoroids will be emitted by a stream of dusty material falling from the centre of the…