Smotrich says illegal West Bank settlement ‘buries’ Palestinian state
The far-right minister says he will approve more than 3,000 new homes in the E1 area project.
Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he will approve thousands of housing units in a highly controversial and long-delayed illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank, saying the move “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.
Smotrich on Thursday said he would approve tenders to build more than 3,000 homes in the E1 area settlement project that would connect Jerusalem and the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, located several kilometres to the east.
Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’
Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth
Thu 14 Aug 2025 11.00 BST
Ridding ourselves of fossil fuels has been a tortuously ponderous process and, in the current political era, one that can seem to be in full retreat. But we do have the tools to run our cities, vehicles and industries on clean energy and even through the murk of vested interest, the contours of a post-fossil world are becoming clearer.
Our system of producing food, though, is in a relative stone age when it comes to the climate crisis. We continue to raze vast tracts of carbon-rich forests for crop and grazing land thereby creating, by some estimates, as much as a third of all global planet-heating emissions.
Europe: Firefighters battle deadly blazes across continent
Firefighters continue to battle wildfires across Europe, with flames engulfing numerous countries and forcing tens of thousands to flee. The scope of the situation has stretched resources thin.
Wildfires continued to blaze across Europe on Thursday with progress being reported on some fronts and deaths on others.
In Greece, firefighters have made progress in their fight with at least four major fires, one of which threatens the country's third-largest city, Patras. A fire department spokesman said "scattered" pockets of fires were "still active" in the western port city of 200,000 and that fire risk remained, "extremely high across much of the country."
Serbia's police intervene as ruling party supporters face off against anti-government protesters
Months of protests in Serbia reached a new intensity Wednesday night as riot police intervened to separate rival demonstrations of anti-government protesters and supporters of President Aleksandar Vucic. The president once again accused unnamed foreign powers of orchestrating the protests, which first began after the deadly collapse of a subway station sparked accusations of widespread government corruption.
Supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) threw flares and firecrackers at anti-government protesters in Novi Sad on Wednesday evening, prompting police to intervene to end the standoff, a major escalation of nine-month-long protests in Serbia.
The student-led protests in Serbia first started in November after a train station canopy collapsed in Novi Sad, killing 16 people and triggering accusations of corruption in state infrastructure projects.
Japan eyes exporting used destroyers to Southeast Asia
Japan is considering the export of used Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers to Southeast Asia, government sources said Wednesday, in an effort to strengthen security ties with countries in the region where key sea lanes are located.
Japan has been studying the export of Abukuma-class ships to the Philippines following a June meeting in Singapore where the countries' defense ministers discussed the matter.
Tokyo is also looking at Indonesia and Vietnam as possible export destinations, according to the sources.
What do Putin and Trump each want from summit in Alaska?
Anthony Zurcher and Steve Rosenberg
Putin eyes international recognition... and more
The first thing Putin wants from this summit is something he's already been given.
And that's recognition.
Recognition from the world's most powerful country, America, that Western efforts to isolate the Kremlin leader have failed.
The fact that this high-level meeting is happening is testament to that, as is the joint press conference that the Kremlin has announced. The Kremlin can argue that Russia is back at the top table of global politics.
Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize
An award he covits because Barack Obama was awarded the prize following his election. The Nobel committee will never award the prize to Donald Trump.
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