Israel
Backing French peace push, EU ministers add carrots to sweeten deal timesofisrael
“The EU is determined, alongside other international and regional partners, to bring a concrete and substantial contribution to a global set of incentives for the parties to make peace with a view to an international conference planned to be held before the end of the year,” the foreign ministers said in a statement.
Herzog signed secret agreement to divide Jerusalem israelnationalnews
Herzog, who prior to the election was seen as a viable candidate for Prime Minister, signed a secret letter of understanding with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, agreeing to a number of long-standing Arab demands.
Among the subjects covered in the letter are the division of Jerusalem, the future disposition of Judea and Samaria, and the so-called “right of return” for Arabs who left the country in 1948.
Israel-Turkey détente ‘a matter of days,’ official says timesofisrael
According to a TV report on Channel 1 Sunday, Israel and Turkish negotiators are set to meet in a European city on June 26 for the final round of talks.
Iran
New evidence of Iran’s chicanery — and the Obama administration’s washingtonpost
It also appears the administration has been hiding the ball about inconvenient evidence that Iran cheated in the past: “The Obama administration didn’t comment about the uranium in December when the IAEA released its report; the finding got only one brief mention in the 16 pages.” The report continues: “In recent interviews, current and former U.S. officials asked about the uranium finding said the working assumption now is that it is tied to nuclear weapons development that Iran is believed to have pursued more than a decade ago.”
Brexit
Could British EU exit be watershed for global economy? sfgate
A British exit from the European Union could cause global market swings for a while. But that would soon pass. If we're lucky, that is. Much darker scenarios for the global economy are also being discussed by economists as they try to gauge the risks of Thursday's referendum for the wider world.
Space
Microsoft Co-Founder's Space Company Nears Debut of World's Biggest Plane nbcnews
With a wingspan of 385 feet (117 m), the six-engine plane will be larger than Howard Hughes' 1947 H-4 Hercules, known as the "Spruce Goose," and the Antonov An-225, a Soviet-era cargo plane originally built to transport the Buran space shuttle that is currently the world's largest aircraft.
The advantage of Allen's approach will be the ability to position the plane so satellites can be directly delivered into very precise orbits and do so quickly, without launch range scheduling issues and weather-related delays, Chuck Beames, who oversees Allen's space ventures, said.
Medical
First Zika vaccine trials to begin within weeks washingtontimes
Federal regulators have greenlighted the first human trial of a vaccine for Zika virus, a pair of pharmaceutical companies said Monday, though a fully approved shot against the mosquito-borne disease could still be more than a year away.
Hitler
Hitler’s a bestselling author in Germany again. Why? pri.org
The debate over ‘Mein Kampf’ goes back decades, but this year marked a big shift in its history. Until the end of 2015, the Bavarian government held the book’s copyright. But this year, it entered the public domain.
Publishers responded with several new editions, starting with an annotated version released by historians in Munich. This month, the Italian newspaper Il Giornale gave away free copies of their own annotated edition. Both editions were criticized by some Jewish groups, but because they were academic in nature, they aimed to put Hitler's destructive and hateful ideas in context. Il Giornale's editor said he hoped the book would allow readers to “study what is evil to avoid its return.”
Terrorism
FBI wanders into heated debate after redacting ISIS from Orlando 911 transcripts, reverses course washingtonpost
The Orlando killer pledged allegiance to the Islamic State while in the midst of murdering 49 people at a gay nightclub last weekend. But for a few hours Monday, we couldn't read that part of Omar Mateen's phone conversations with dispatchers and police because the FBI took it out of transcripts of 911 calls it released.
Protests
Thousands protest U.S. bases on Okinawa after Japan woman's murder in.reuters
The protest marked a new low for the United States and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in their relations with the island and threatens plans to move the U.S. Marines Futenma air station to a less populous part of the island.
Fraud
Karen King Responds to ‘The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife’ theatlantic
For four years, Karen L. King, a Harvard historian of Christianity, has defended the so-called “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” against scholars who argued it was a forgery. But Thursday, for the first time, King said the papyrus—which she introduced to the world in 2012—is a probable fake.
She reached this conclusion, she said, after reading The Atlantic’s investigation into the papyrus’s origins, which appears in the magazine’s July/August issue and was posted to its website Wednesday night.
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Is the birthplace of ‘Uncle Tom’ in a Maryland hayfield? washingtontimes
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