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Israeli troops fire ‘warning shots’ at 25 diplomats visiting occupied West Bank
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/israeli-troops-fire-warning-shots-25-diplomats-visiting-occupied-west-bank

Suspected Israeli hackers claim to destroy data at Iran's Bank Sepah
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/suspected-israeli-hackers-claim-destroy-data-irans-bank-sepah-2025-06-17/

Uh, World Bank, solar?
World Bank Lifts Ban on Nuclear Power, Considers Upstream Gas | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/world-bank-lifts-ban-on-nuclear-power-considers-upstream-gas

An AI-powered Tool for Central Bank Business Liaisons: Quantitative Indicators and On-demand Insights from Firms
Nicholas Gray, Finn Lattimore, Kate McLoughlin, Callan Windsor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18505

An AI-powered Tool for Central Bank Business Liaisons: Quantitative Indicators and On-demand Insights from Firms
In a world of increasing policy uncertainty, central banks are relying more on soft information sources to complement traditional economic statistics and model-based forecasts. One valuable source of soft information comes from intelligence gathered through central bank liaison programs -- structured programs in which central bank staff regularly talk with firms to gather insights. This paper introduces a new text analytics and retrieval tool that efficiently processes, organises, and analyses …

The global economy is projected to slow sharply this year
as Trump’s trade policy disrupts international commerce and increases economic uncertainty,
the World Bank said on Tuesday in a report that underscores the toll of America’s trade war.
Despite the weakening outlook, the global economy is not expected to fall into a recession, the World Bank said.
However, the trade tension is setting the stage for the weakest decade of growth since the 1960s.
Economic dev…

World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War
Along with a sharply downgraded projection for global output this year, it urged a “course correction” on trade to help preserve living standards.

FWIW, it's pretty clear that the abuse of immigrants in the US and the abuse of Palestinians in Gaza/West Bank are copied elsewhere. I grew up (60's/70's) believing that these acts were wrong, and that the world had sort of learned it's lessons from WW2 horrors. It's distressing to realize how much I was taught in school was just plain wrong.

FWIW, it's pretty clear that the abuse of immigrants in the US and the abuse of Palestinians in Gaza/West Bank are copied elsewhere. I grew up (60's/70's) believing that these acts were wrong, and that the world had sort of learned it's lessons from WW2 horrors. It's distressing to realize how much I was taught in school was just plain wrong.

We need people like Matthew Cassel and Kyri Evangelou that are able to stand with a straight face when being in the middle of this. But what face can the rest of us afford to have?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/…

Mit den illegalen #Siedlungen im Westjordanland sollte genauso verfahren werden wie mit Schwarzbauten. Sie müssen abgerissen und der Status quo ante wiederhergestellt werden.
Die Art der rechtswidrigen Annexion von Land zum Zweck des Siedlungsbaus, die Menschenrechte verletzt, muss international geächtet werden.
Die israelische Regierung setzt sich über internationales Recht und universe…

Climate impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
Yan Bai, Elena M. Martinez, Mizuki Yamanaka, Marko Rissanen, Anna Herforth, William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24457

Climate impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
About 2.8 billion people worldwide cannot afford the least expensive foods required for a healthy diet. Since 2020, the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD) has been published for all countries by FAO and the World Bank and is widely used to guide social protection, agricultural, and public health and nutrition policies. Here, we measure how healthy diets could be obtained with the lowest possible greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in ways that could further inform food choice and poli…