Analysts are sounding the alarm over a growing ‘brain drain’ as American scientists and international researchers flee to Europe, an exodus driven by deep cuts to research funding and stricter visa rules under the Trump administration. A 2025 poll by Nature found that 75% of American scientists were considering leaving the United States. This potential mass departure has contributed to policies aimed at further restricting the flow of international students, who have long fu

Australia and the European Union signed a free trade agreement after eight years of negotiations, removing tariffs on almost all goods and potentially easing EU access to Australian critical minerals. The deal follows intensified talks amid sharply higher U.S. tariffs under the Trump administration and growing Western concerns over China’s dominant position in rare earths and other critical minerals. The two sides also signed an agreement to deepen security and defense cooper

The European Union and United Kingdom have demanded that Israel halt a surge in violence by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that has taken place since the start of the country’s war with Iran. Six Palestinians have been killed during attacks by settlers across the West Bank over […] 11 days, according to the United Nations. The Israeli military condemned the violence and said it was working to bring those responsible to justice. Israel h

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in its latest report on Afghanistan’s military and political situation, said the country remains complex and unstable, with terrorist networks representing the main source of unrest, as reported by media outlets including the South Asia Terrorism Portal and Russian news agency, Interfax. The report estimates that between 20,000 and 23,000 fighters belonging to international terrorist groups are active in Afghanistan, more than half of

The largest-ever purchase of an Israeli-founded tech company was completed after multiple anti-trust regulators cleared the acquisition of cybersecurity unicorn Wiz by Alphabet’s Google for a staggering $32 billion. The deal, first announced in March last year, amid Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza, marks the largest purchase of an Israeli-founded company after US giant Intel Corp bought Mobileye, a Jerusalem-based developer of advanced vision and driver assistance systems, fo

The Swedish research institute SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, published its global arms export and import report, comparing the arms exports of various countries in the years 2016–2020 to 2021–2025. Israel’s share of global arms exports in recent years (2021–2025) has climbed to 4.4%, up from 3.1% in the previous period (2016–2020). Israel is now the world’s seventh-largest arms exporter. Furthermore, even though Israel required substantial quant

The concept of a “G2”—a more exclusive version of the Group of Seven or Group of 20 forums—was introduced in 2005 by American economist C. Fred Bergsten to underscore the importance of communication between the world’s two biggest economies. There is no doubt that China and the U.S. have a significant impact on the world. But we should not forget there are more than 190 countries on our planet,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in response to a question from NBC News. “W

New data from Nielsen BookScan has revealed that UK Bible sales in 2025 reached their highest point since records began in 2008. Annual sales more than doubled from £2.69m in 2019 to £6.3m in 2025, while sales have shot up by 106 percent in volume—the number of copies sold—over the past five years. According to a Bible Society study, Christians aged 18-24 were the group most likely to be reading the Bible regularly. Despite their digital native status, they’re using physical

An increasing number of Jewish Americans with family histories shaped by the Holocaust are applying to restore German citizenship—to have the option to move to Germany should conditions in the US deteriorate further. Once unthinkable: At 103, Holocaust survivor Ruth Gruenthal has reclaimed the German citizenship the Nazi regime stripped from her because she was Jewish. After surviving Nazi persecution and rebuilding her life in the US, Ruth became a psychotherapist and raised

For the first time since Israel occupied the territory in 1967, the government will create a mechanism to officially register large swaths of land under the state. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalal Smotrich said the land registry would continue “the settlement and governance revolution across all parts of our land” as he referenced Judea and Samaria, the biblical term for the West Bank. Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war and subsequently began establis

The Spanish government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s is one of the most anti-Israeli in the EU, and this was demonstrated in June 2025, when the Ministry of Defense in Madrid suspended a euro285 million deal to procure Spike LR2 anti-tank missiles from Rafael Advance Defense Systems as a protest against the war in Gaza. This meant Spain needed advanced missiles from elsewhere, so it turned to EuroSpike. Rafael owns 20% of the European company, with German companies Rheinm

Brazil and India sealed a deal on critical minerals and rare earths, enhancing cooperation on crucial resources between two major countries of the global south as they seek to diversify their trading relationships. Brazil has the world’s second-largest reserves of rare earth minerals, used in a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, solar panels and jet engines. - apnews.com , 21 February 2026 Commentary: Brazil and India are members of BRICS, a ra

Billed as the first high-level AI gathering to be held in the Global South, the India AI Impact Summit has given the world’s most populous country a stage to promote itself as a global AI player, broadening the AI conversation to include countries in Latin America, Africa and beyond. “The solutions presented here—in agriculture, security, assistance for persons with disabilities, and addressing the needs of multilingual populations—are powerful examples of Made in India stren

“You can be born Jewish in Finland, get circumcised, married, divorced: it’s a one-stop shop,” said Chaya Votkin, president of the Jewish Community of Helsinki. Demographically speaking, the community is quite unique. It began in the first half of the 19th century, when Jewish soldiers (known as cantonists) serving in the Imperial Russian Army in Finland were granted permission by Russian military authorities to stay in Finland after completing their military service. “They s

The Buddhist monk who led a “Walk for Peace” from Texas to the nation’s capital said he believes peace can be achieved even in a world filled with conflict, citing the overwhelming displays of public support for his walk as a source of hope for future change. “Peace always begins from within ourself. It’s not the world peace out there,” the Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara said in an exclusive interview with CBS News. “No one can change this world, but together, all people and all

Online antisemitism is becoming increasingly sophisticated and event-driven, despite an increased platform removal rate, with scapegoating and conspirational self-victimization (CSV) narratives reaching an all-time high in 2025, non-profit CyberWell’s annual report showed. Cyberwell, a global nonprofit organization aimed at combating the spread of antisemitism online, monitors content on Meta, TikTok, X/Twitter, and YouTube to identify antisemitic rhetoric and discourse. “Ant

As covered by The Jerusalem Post last July, Canadian citizen Philip Khazzam sued the French government for more than $17 million in unpaid rent relating to his family’s property in Baghdad, which has served as the French embassy in Iraq since the 1960s. Khazzam’s grandfather, Ezra Lawee, and Ezra’s brother Khedouri built the house and lived there with their children before they were forced out of their home and fled the country. The family relocated to Canada, where they acq

Across national studies of American Jews conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America over the past several years, alongside those of many research and organizational partners, one finding has remained remarkably consistent: Jews of all ages continue to feel deeply connected to Israel and to Israelis. In fact, emotional connection to Israel across all age groups has increased since 2020. In addition, nine out of 10 Jews strongly support Israel’s right to exist as a Je

Towering above […] is the immense, bubble-shaped dome of Jetavanaramaya—a structure so large that when it was completed in the early fourth century CE, it ranked as the third-largest man made building on Earth, surpassed only by the Great Pyramids of Giza. Completed around 301 CE using an estimated 93.3 million baked mud bricks, the stupa originally rose to around 122 meters (400 feet), making it one of the tallest structures of the ancient world. Jetavanaramaya refers not on

Massillon was born at Hyères in Provence where his father was a royal notary. At the age of eighteen he joined the French Oratory and taught for a time in the colleges of his congregation at Pézenas, and Montbrison and at the Seminary of Vienne. Massillon soon gained a wide reputation as a preacher and was selected to be the Advent preacher at the court of Versailles in 1699. He was made Bishop of Clermont in 1717, and two years later was elected a member of the Académie fran