Middle East Crisis West Bank
40,000 flee West Bank – highest since 1967
Israel's extensive military operation in the West Bank has forced 40,000 Palestinians to flee their homes, reports the New York Times. This is the highest number of refugees in the West Bank since the 1967 war, experts told the newspaper.
Israel says the operation is only about stopping militants and terrorists. The Palestinians are expressing concern that the whole thing is a hidden attempt to drive people from their homes.
The Israeli offensive began on January 21, shortly after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and has been condemned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Political situation in Britain
New Tory leader warns of the fall of civilization
"Western civilization will be lost" unless the British Conservatives are renewed and put forward new right-wing ideas, says party leader Kemi Badenoch, according to British media.
Badenoch attacks the left, claiming that its focus on climate activism is being used to “control” the population. She also says that the “poisoning of the mind” that is taking place in universities and higher education needs to be addressed.
The Conservatives lost last year’s general election after 14 years in power. Badenoch said in a speech at a conservative conference in London that they, like Donald Trump, need a second attempt to solve Britain’s problems, the Financial Times reports.
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper accuses Badenoch of “competing with Nigel Farage in slapping Donald Trump.”
New elections in Germany
The question in the German election: Does the AFD leader live in Switzerland?
With one week left until the election, the far-right party AFD leader Alice Weidel is being grilled about her homeland. Weidel has a wife and two children in Switzerland but claims to live in Überlingen, Germany, near the border.
– I live in Germany. I pay my taxes here, Weidel said when the question came up during Sunday's televised debate between the four chancellor candidates.
In a new documentary from ZDF, Weidel is hosted at the German House on Lake Constance and the reporter asks how often she has spent the night here in the past year.
– Yes, that's a leading question you're asking here. I won't answer it if it's asked like this. Can we move on now?, Weidel replies.
40,000 flee West Bank – highest since 1967
Israel's extensive military operation in the West Bank has forced 40,000 Palestinians to flee their homes, reports the New York Times. This is the highest number of refugees in the West Bank since the 1967 war, experts told the newspaper.
Israel says the operation is only about stopping militants and terrorists. The Palestinians are expressing concern that the whole thing is a hidden attempt to drive people from their homes.
The Israeli offensive began on January 21, shortly after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and has been condemned by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Political situation in Britain
New Tory leader warns of the fall of civilization
"Western civilization will be lost" unless the British Conservatives are renewed and put forward new right-wing ideas, says party leader Kemi Badenoch, according to British media.
Badenoch attacks the left, claiming that its focus on climate activism is being used to “control” the population. She also says that the “poisoning of the mind” that is taking place in universities and higher education needs to be addressed.
The Conservatives lost last year’s general election after 14 years in power. Badenoch said in a speech at a conservative conference in London that they, like Donald Trump, need a second attempt to solve Britain’s problems, the Financial Times reports.
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper accuses Badenoch of “competing with Nigel Farage in slapping Donald Trump.”
New elections in Germany
The question in the German election: Does the AFD leader live in Switzerland?
With one week left until the election, the far-right party AFD leader Alice Weidel is being grilled about her homeland. Weidel has a wife and two children in Switzerland but claims to live in Überlingen, Germany, near the border.
– I live in Germany. I pay my taxes here, Weidel said when the question came up during Sunday's televised debate between the four chancellor candidates.
In a new documentary from ZDF, Weidel is hosted at the German House on Lake Constance and the reporter asks how often she has spent the night here in the past year.
– Yes, that's a leading question you're asking here. I won't answer it if it's asked like this. Can we move on now?, Weidel replies.
Trump's first term
Confusion after turnaround: "Doge has no idea"
Confusion prevails after 350 people who manage the US nuclear arsenal were fired on Thursday and then got their jobs back a day later, reports the AP.
The Trump administration's mistake may have been due to the fact that the nuclear safety agency NNSA is under the Department of Energy, where up to 2,000 people have been fired, according to the AP.
“The Doge people come in with absolutely no idea what these agencies are responsible for,” Daryl Kimball of the Arm Control Association told the news agency.
The unofficial “efficiency agency” Doge has targeted relatively new employees who have fewer protections and no way to appeal the decision, US media reports.
Trump's team
Odenberg: Vance 2025 could be worse than Putin 2007
Odenberg: Vance 2025 could be worse than Putin 2007
Heavy veterans in Swedish foreign policy are expressing great concern about the Trump administration's approach to Europe. Mikael Odenberg, a former moderate defense minister, thinks that Vice President JD Vance's speech at the Munich Security Conference this weekend is reminiscent of the speech that Vladimir Putin gave in 2007.
- It was a bit shocking, but the question is whether this is even worse.
Odenberg says that the United States "has been the center of the free world" but that the inviolability of countries no longer seems to be worth anything, including with Trump's statements about Canada and Greenland.
Pope's Health
Pope's Lungs Under Attack: "More Than One Organism"
Pope Francis is suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory infection, the Vatican says. The complicated word describes a mix of bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that spread in the lungs, writes AP.
- It probably means he has more than one organism in his lungs, says pulmonary and intensive care specialist Maor Sauler to the news agency.
The condition can be managed with the right mix of antibiotics, but the fact that the pope is 88 years old and has previously lost parts of his right lung makes the prognosis more uncertain.
If the pope's condition worsens in the coming days, it is a bad sign, Sauler tells the AP.
Pope's Lungs Under Attack: "More Than One Organism"
Pope Francis is suffering from a polymicrobial respiratory infection, the Vatican says. The complicated word describes a mix of bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites that spread in the lungs, writes AP.
- It probably means he has more than one organism in his lungs, says pulmonary and intensive care specialist Maor Sauler to the news agency.
The condition can be managed with the right mix of antibiotics, but the fact that the pope is 88 years old and has previously lost parts of his right lung makes the prognosis more uncertain.
If the pope's condition worsens in the coming days, it is a bad sign, Sauler tells the AP.
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