The residents of Papua New Guinea?s Carteret Islands have the unenviable distinction of being the world?s first climate-change refugees. With the status come both anger and opportunities.
The settlers are in an uproar over the prime minister's decision to freeze settlement construction, Likud Central Committee members demand to have their say on the issue, and meanwhile the idea of a Labor-Likud 'zipper party' is being bandied about.
It sometimes happens, when watching public appearances by so-called "personages" - who, if you take away their position, are often revealed to be nobodies - that I try to concentrate on the expressionless figures standing guard over the important one.
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have been fruitless, the end of the occupation is not in sight, and according to the platform of the sixth Fatah conference, the situation will not change in the near future.
Nearly two years after declaring independence, Kosovo is still in an interim situation, due to the presence of many international organizations whose authority is unclear, and the fact that the world is still divided on formal recognition of it.
He's colorful, he's witty and he boils down the complexities of economics to a palatable level daily, with the help of apples and a traffic light, in his CNN studio. Meet Richard Quest - but don't ask him too many personal questions.
If the High Court had allowed a private prison to open, it would have joined the long list of public services, in such fields as health and education, that have undergone privatization in recent decades.
Ram Karmi's central bus station design and Habima renovations are directly linked to Israel's occupation and settlement policy and a new architecture journal put out by the college in Ariel.
'Debka Fantasia' reflects tremendous research, seriousness and cultural commitment, and is also noteworthy because of its near-symphonic sound and emotional impact.
This topic is at the center of the latest issue of Nekuda: "The crumbling of the kibbutz idea - will it also happen to the settlement movement?" Some of the writers fear that the settlements, too, are liable to atrophy, and accompany the expression of their fear with probing criticism.
The initial encounter between Jacob and Esau occurs in their mother's womb. God informs Rebecca that the two beings struggling inside her will found two powerful nations.
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