Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Kagan and Soai
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French scientist Henri B. Kagan and Japan’s Kenso Soai for providing a solution to the chemical mystery of life’s asymmetry. The researchers discovered how nature exclusively makes the correct…
‘Resilience’ of Israelis as they mourn the loss of loved ones and ‘the sense that we can be safe’
Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Dr. Danny Brom, Founding Director of METIV, the Israel Psychotrauma Center in Jerusalem. According to Dr. Brom, as Israelis and Jewish people around the world continue to mourn the largest loss of Jewish life on a…
Canada suspends plans to expand assisted dying to people with mental illness
Canada says it will indefinitely suspend plans to expand its medically assisted dying law to people whose sole condition is mental illness, citing a lack of consensus on who would be eligible. It comes after a parliamentary panel earlier this year…
What France’s student protesters want – and what the government is offering
Mass protests across France’s high schools roiled the country again on Tuesday, with hundreds of thousands joining the biggest day of the movement so far. Demonstrations began in late September, with the first protest traced back to Saint-Exupéry high…
Israelis demand accountability over 7 October failures three years after attacks
For years, Netanyahu oversaw a policy of containing – not confronting – Hamas in Gaza, during which Israeli governments allowed Qatar to provide hundreds of millions of dollars of aid for Gaza. A month after the 7 October attacks, he told a…
Scars from Oct. 7 fuel deep divisions over Netanyahu ahead of Israeli election
As Israel gears up for its first elections since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns. Three years on, the worst security failure in Israel’s history now…
Japan beer giants raided over alleged price-fixing cartel
Japanese officials have raided the country’s biggest beer makers over allegations they worked together to raise the price of their beverages. Asahi, Kirin and Suntory Spirits confirmed to the BBC their premises had been searched by the Japan Fair…
US woman who survived botched execution is conscious, speaking
The woman who survived a failed execution in a US prison last week is now conscious and speaking, but her prognosis remains unclear, her lawyers said on Tuesday. Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for a murder she committed when she was a…
Kenya’s first Ebola case: Ten people quarantined as screening concerns grow
In June, a US plan to establish an Ebola treatment facility at a military base in the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki sparked concern, with Kenyans reacting furiously about the risks of cross-border infection. The plan was halted by the courts. On…
Three years on, questions remain over what Netanyahu knew before October 7
As Israelis mark the third anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack, and with elections due later this month, one question keeps resurfacing: What did Benjamin Netanyahu know in the run-up to the attack? The Israeli prime minister has been accused of…