One in 20 Europeans surveyed has never heard of theHolocaust. More than a quarter believe Jews have too muchinfluence in business and finance. One in five believe anti-Semitism is a response to the everyday actions of Jews.CNN poll reveals depth of anti-Semitism in Europe
Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world.
Anti-Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade, a sweeping new survey by CNN reveals. More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world.
One in five said they have too much influence in the media and the same number believe they have too much influence in politics.
Meanwhile, a third of Europeans in the poll said they knew just a little or nothing at all about the Holocaust, the mass murder of some six million Jews in lands controlled by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s.
End of an era as Ireland closes its peat bogs 'to fight climate change'
Shift to renewables is too late say campaigners as peatlands will still emit greenhouse gases
When the semi-state company that harvests Ireland’s peatlands recently announced the closure of 17 bogs, the news was greeted as the end of an era. Turning the soggy landscape that covers much of Ireland’s midlands into a fuel source had been a great national project, an ambitious undertaking launched by the republic’s founding fathers in the 1930s. Draining and cutting hundreds of thousands of hectares of turf on an industrial scale generated desperately needed jobs and reduced dependence on oil imports for almost a century.
So there was some nostalgia last month when Bord na Móna, the peat-harvesting company, announced it was closing 17 of its “active bogs” and would close the remaining 45 within seven years. Nostalgia but also acceptance, given the growing awareness that harvesting peat emits greenhouse gases that worsen climate change, requiring a shift to renewable energy. “Decarbonisation is the biggest challenge facing this planet,” said Tom Donnellan, the company’s chief executive.
What you need to know about the conflict in the Sea of Azov
Moscow and Kyiv are locked in dispute over an incident in the Kerch Strait off the coast of the Crimean peninsula. What is it all about?
The events since Sunday
On Sunday in the Kerch Strait off the coast of the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, the Russian navy stopped three Ukrainian military vessels from passing into the Sea of Azov. The ships were en route from Odessa on the Black Sea to Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian officials said. The Russian side was informed about the move, according to Ukrainian navy command. But the Russian FSB Federal Security Service that is also responsible for border protection claims the ships illegally entered Russian waters. It says crews did not comply with demands to stop. In the scuffle, a Russian border patrol ship rammed and damaged a Ukrainian Navy tugboat. Russian forces later seized all three Ukrainian ships, confiscating them for violating Russia's border. Six Ukrainian navy soldiers were injured, the Ukrainian navy said.
Trump dismisses own government's climate report
President Donald Trump said Monday he doesn't believe his own government's report last week warning of massive economic losses if carbon emissions continue to feed climate change unchecked.
"I don't believe it," Trump said at the White House, adding that the United States would not take measures to cut emissions if the same was not done in other countries.
Trump said he had read "some" of the report and that it was "fine."
However, he rejected the central warning in the National Climate Assessment, which said there will be hundreds of billions of dollars in losses by the end of the century due to climate change "without substantial and sustained global mitigation."
Academics condemn China over Xinjiang camps, urge sanctions
278 scholars from dozens of countries sign letter on Xinjiang, as Uighur woman details torture in the remote region.
Countries must impose sanctions on China over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said, warning that a failure to act would signal acceptance of "psychological torture of innocent civilians".
At a briefing in Washington, DC, on Monday,representatives of a group of 278 scholars in various disciplines from dozens of countries called on Chinato end its detention policies, and for sanctions directed at key Chinese leaders and security companies linked to abuses.
Doctors Say Using Tear Gas On Migrant Children Can Have Severe, Long-Lasting Effects
U.S. border agents fired tear gas Sunday at a group of Central American migrants that included children, an assault that has medical experts worried.
President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials said the chemical spray was required to keep hundreds of asylum seekers from forcefully crossing the border from Tijuana. Trump denied that tear gas was used on the children, despite photographs and videos that show it was.
Doctors told HuffPost that the border agents unnecessarily subjected children to a chemical agent that can have serious physical and psychological health effects.
Alan Shapiro, chief medical director at Terra Firma, a program that treats immigrant children, said the migrants in the caravan should be able to enter the U.S. without being subjected to physical or emotional trauma by the federal government. “Throwing tear gas at children is not immigration policy. Separating children from their parents is not immigration policy,” Shapiro said. “It’s torture.”
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