U.S./Israel Relations at Low Ebb: Hellfire Missile Supplies Halted
The White House has instructed the Pentagon and U.S. military officials to halt the transfer of Hellfire missiles requested by Israel after learning that some weapons shipments entered Israel during...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Israel Reaches a Fork in the Road on Gaza
Tel Aviv—We are reaching the end of first day of a five-day ceasefire, a day in which no negotiations have taken place.I just returned from one of the oddest demonstrations I can remember, in support...
View ArticleMartha’s Vineyard Diary: Events in Ferguson Overtake Obama's Vacation
Martha’s Vineyard — Reporters and politicos I spoke with today weren’t surprised by President Obama’s remarks on the troubling situation in Ferguson, Missouri, or by the staging of his announcement. He...
View ArticleSpeaking in (Green) Tongues: Scientist Discovers New Plant Language
Maybe when leaves whistle in the breeze, plants are really speaking to each other. A study published today in this week’s Science journal unearths a new language spoken by plants. Jim Westwood,...
View ArticleEmbattled Iraqi Premier Nouri al-Maliki Finally Steps Down, Supports Successor
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has agreed to step down and support his replacement, Haider al-Abadi, after refusing to step down during several days of political turmoil. In a speech this...
View ArticleHow Traffic Tickets in Ferguson Fuel Racial Tension
“You go to all of these damn courts, and there’s no white people,” one defendant, slated to appear before a municipal court in St. Louis County, recently said.Another complained that North St. Louis...
View ArticleEbola Outbreak Vastly Underestimated: WHO
CONAKRY (Reuters) - Staff with the World Health Organisation battling an Ebola outbreak in West Africa see evidence the numbers of reported cases and deaths vastly underestimates the scale of the...
View Article4 Arrested in Times Square After March Supporting Ferguson
Demonstrators gathered for a peaceful vigil in New York's Union Square on Thursday evening, in solidarity with the town of Ferguson, Missouri, and five days of protests there following the shooting of...
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A Strange Calm Descends on Ferguson, Missouri
A night after Ferguson, Missouri, became a war zone, it reverted to something slightly more normal, with protesters standing along West Florissant Avenue, their hands raised, as, reportedly, Michael...
View ArticleClashes in Pakistan After Shots Fired at Khan During Rally
Clashes broke out on Friday as tens of thousands of Pakistani protesters from two anti-government movements converged on the capital, presenting the 15-month-old civilian government with its biggest...
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Why We're Definitely Not Headed for Another Ice Age
It was cold in the winter of 1684. Damn cold. So cold, in fact, that a couple of paintings from the time, depicting Londoners gambolling on the frozen River Thames, remain a kind of pictorial shorthand...
View ArticleDrug Legalisation in the UK Is a Question of Time
Twelve years ago, a promising young politician rose to speak in the British parliament. “I ask the Government not to return to retribution and war on drugs,” he said. “That has been tried, and we all...
View ArticleRussian Military Vehicles Enter Ukraine Overnight as ‘Aid’ Convoy Waits Near...
Ukrainian officials on the Russian border have begun inspection of the 280-lorry convoy, which Russia claims is carrying humanitarian supplies from Moscow to the country’s eastern Luhansk...
View ArticleDoctors Start Work as U.N. Estimates 400,000 Gaza Children Need Psychological...
In a ward at Shifa, Gaza's largest hospital, child therapist Rabeea Hamouda is trying to elicit a response from two small brothers, Omar and Mohammed, aged three and 18 months, hoping for some words or...
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Robbery Had Nothing to Do with Lethal Shooting, Ferguson Police Chief Says
Police on Friday morning announced the name of the officer who shot and killed Mike Brown last Saturday in Ferguson, Missouri. Brown’s death precipitated several days of protests and a police response...
View ArticleFacebook Made a $10,000 Donation to Politician Fighting Same-Sex Marriage
Facebook made a $10,000 donation to the reelection campaign of a U.S. politician who fought strongly against the legalisation of same-sex marriage, it has emerged.The donation, to Republican Utah...
View ArticleWhat Michael Brown’s Death Says About America
For many, the scenes of conflict from Ferguson, Missouri this week were a reminder of an era of racial conflict many Americans had hoped was far behind them — particularly in the era of the first black...
View ArticleUkrainian Artillery Destroys Part of Russian Military Convoy, Says Kiev
Ukrainian artillery destroyed a "significant" part of a Russian armored column that crossed into Ukraine during the night, President Petro Poroshenko told British Prime Minister David Cameron on...
View ArticleRussia: Ukraine is Disrupting Our Humanitarian Mission
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of attempting to disrupt a Russian humanitarian aid mission to eastern Ukraine and called for a ceasefire in the region to allow for the...
View ArticleDutch Santa’s 'Racist' Helper Black Pete to Be Given Slow Makeover
The Netherlands’ controversial folk character of Black Pete, prominent in Dutch Christmas celebrations, will be changed over the next few years, phasing out perceived racist connotations of his...
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