Israel
Obama And Netanyahu To Meet In New York On Wednesday jewishbusinessnews
The meeting was agreed upon following talks between the Prime Minister’s Office and the White House and was confirmed after the signing of the new US-Israel military aid package. It will be the first meeting between the two leaders since November 2015 and likely be the last as Obama approaches the conclusion of his presidency.
“The meeting also will be an opportunity to discuss the need for genuine advancement of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the face of deeply troubling trends on the ground,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Syria
Syria war ceasefire: Assad army declares peace deal over with no promise of renewal independent.co.uk
The ceasefire deal, which as per the original agreement technically expired at 11.59pm on Sunday, was supposed to renew every 48 hours as long as conditions were met. It is unclear whether Russian and US talks will lead to an extension and the originally proposed joint airstrikes against Isis and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, or al-Nusra, the renamed Al-Qaeda affiliate operating in Syria.
Also see Video of Syria usatoday
Germany
Angela Merkel admits mistakes over asylum seekers after disastrous election theguardian
In an unusually self-critical but also combative speech, the German chancellor said on Monday afternoon she was fighting to make sure there would be no repetition of last year’s chaotic scenes on Germany’s borders, when “for some time, we didn’t have enough control”. “No one wants a repeat of last year’s situation, including me,” Merkel said.
However, she did not distance herself from her decision last September to keep open Germany’s borders to thousands of refugees stranded at Keleti station in Budapest. The mistake, the chancellor said, was that she and her government had not been quicker to prepare for the mass movement of people triggered by conflicts in the Middle East.
Muslims
Just under 30 percent of French Muslims reject secular laws - poll in.reuters
The poll, commissioned by the think tank Institut Montaigne institutmontaigne.org, was conducted by phone between April 13 and May 23 among 1,029 people aged 15 and older who were of Muslim faith or culture, extracted from a sample of 15,459 people.
Interesting but it's a rather small sample set, so take with a grain of salt.
Crime
Flaws in Fingerprint Records Allowed Hundreds to Become U.S. Citizens nytimes
The report from the department’s Office of Inspector General oig.hhs.gov found that nearly 900 individuals were granted citizenship because neither the agency nor the F.B.I. databases contained all of the fingerprint records of people who had previously been ordered to be deported.
Creation
Renewable fuel source for jet planes and missiles grows on trees and reduces emissions abc.net.au
Researchers in the US and Australia have teamed up and determined that, of the 800 eucalypt species in Australia, the often stunted-looking mallee may be the answer.
Automation
Lyft’s Vision for the Next Ten Years and Beyond medium w!
Most of us have grown up in cities built around the automobile, but imagine for a minute, what our world could look like if we found a way to take most of these cars off the road. It would be a world with less traffic and less pollution. A world where we need less parking — where streets can be narrowed and sidewalks widened. It’s a world where we can construct new housing and small businesses on parking lots across the country — or turn them into green spaces and parks. That’s a world built around people, not cars.
Mostly Lyft imagining Lyft as the savior of the world through car automation. But, still - an interesting dream.
Self-driving boats will be tested on Amsterdam's canals next year theverge
The program has the delightfully straightforward name of Roboat, and is being carried out by researchers from MIT and two Dutch universities (the Delft University of Technology and Wageningen University and Research). They have €25 million in funding for their work ($27 million) and aim to have the first prototype robo-vehicles floating on Amsterdam's canals by 2017.
Research
When Blind People Do Algebra, The Brain's Visual Areas Light Up npr.org
A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants were asked to solve algebra problems, a team from Johns Hopkins reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences nasonline.org.
In 19 sighted people doing the same problems, visual areas of the brain showed no increase in activity.
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