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Today's News / Climate change could wipe out black truffles, claim UK researchers

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Climate change could wipe out black truffles, claim UK researchers

Climate change could wipe out black truffles, a report from UK researchers claims

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Today's News / Greenland ice blocks melt in London for climate awareness

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Greenland ice blocks melt in London for climate awareness

Greenland ice blocks melt in London for climate awareness

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Today's News / California man treats his neighbours to a dazzling Chistmas

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California man treats his neighbours to a dazzling Chistmas

Each night, Mike Ziemkowski greets visitors and welcomes them to his Christmas garden with refreshments and cookies.

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Today's News / UK no-confidence vote: How does it work? | Euronews Answers

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UK no-confidence vote: How does it work? | Euronews Answers

British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a no-confidence vote on Wednesday evening, which could see her ousted from the prime minister. But how does the no-confidence vote work?

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YoNews Portal / Winter storm dumped nearly 3 feet of snow in 48 hours on Busick, North Carolina

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Winter storm dumped nearly 3 feet of snow in 48 hours on Busick, North Carolina

A tiny Yancey County community that most North Carolinians have never heard of is the talk of the state, after the National Weather Service revealed nearly 3 feet of snow fell there in 48 hours. "The tiny town of Busick, North Carolina, in Pisgah National Forest,...recorded 34 inches by Monday afternoon," NBC News reported. ABC News also singled out Busick in its storm coverage, calling the snow fall "staggering." Mount Mitchell in Yancey County also got 34 inches of snow, according to the North Carolina State Parks. The park is the highest point east of the Mississippi, at 6,684 feet.

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YoNews Portal / The pound rallies ahead of Theresa May's no confidence vote

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The pound rallies ahead of Theresa May's no confidence vote

Update 3: This is big. In what might be the first sign that May is growing weary of the unceasing Brexit chaos that has marred her tenure as prime minister, No. 10 Downing Street just hinted in comments that May might not be the conservative leader during the next election. Update 2: Cable has climbed to session highs, wiping out yesterday's losses, following a BBC report that 158 MPs - enough for May to prevail in the no confidence vote - have publicly promised to back the prime minister.

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YoNews Portal / Israel to build ‘Embassy Quarter’ in occupied Jerusalem

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Israel to build ‘Embassy Quarter’ in occupied Jerusalem

Israel is to build an embassy complex in occupied Jerusalem, a year after US President Donald Trump announced his plans to relocate the American Embassy to the city. Israel’s Construction and Housing Ministry announced today that it plans to build a complex with space for nine separate embassies in occupied East Jerusalem, in the belief that more countries will follow the US lead and move their diplomatic missions from Tel Aviv, Arutz Sheva reported.  
The complex is to be built on a 25-acre plot of land in East Talpiot, a southern neighbourhood of Jerusalem. Following the Nakba of 1948, East Talpiot became part of no man’s land, next to the 1949 Armistice Line – sometimes known as the Green Line – observed by Israel and Jordan. During the Six Day War of 1967 Israel occupied the neighbourhood, establishing an illegal settlement there in 1973.  
The plan to build the complex in East Talpiot is therefore in contravention of international law. As such, any country which chooses to move its embassy into the complex upon its completion would also be violating international law.

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YoNews Portal / ‘Unprecedented’ decline in number of American Jews on ‘Birthright’ trips to Israel

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‘Unprecedented’ decline in number of American Jews on ‘Birthright’ trips to Israel

There has been a sharp decline in the number of American Jews participating in the “Birthright” trips to Israel this winter, reported Haaretz, describing “a downturn of this magnitude, unrelated to the security situation” as “unprecedented”.
Since its establishment in 1999, the Birthright organisation has brought some 500,000 young Jews from around the world on free trips to Israel.
According to the paper, citing some of Birthright’s key trip providers, the drop ranges from 20 per cent to 50 per cent – depending on the provider – in comparison with the last winter season (which extends from December through March).
One explanation for the downturn suggested by the trip providers is that the numbers “could reflect the well-documented fact that young American Jews are growing increasingly disengaged from Israel, and have less and less interest in visiting the country – even when the trips are free”.

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YoNews Portal / Israel minister tours West Bank settlements: ‘We are here to win’

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Israel minister tours West Bank settlements: ‘We are here to win’

Israeli minister Ophir Akunis toured Israeli settlements yesterday and “declared his support” for the annexation of the so-called Gush Etzion settlement “bloc” and “Judea and Samaria [the West Bank] in general”, reported right-wing news outlet Arutz Sheva.
The Minister of Science and Technology, part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, visited the Gush Etzion settlements with local settler council leader Shlomo Ne’eman.
Akunis described the Gush Etzion settlement bloc as “one of the foundations of our people dating back thousands of years, and anyone who disputes this right is wrong”.
As we have been forced to leave here in the past, we are here to win, and here thousands of families will raise their children for generations to come
he declared.

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YoNews Portal / Netanyahu: No settler will be uprooted while I’m PM

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Netanyahu: No settler will be uprooted while I’m PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday promised that he would never evict illegal settlers from the occupied Palestinian territories as long as he is in office, local media reported.
Speaking at an inaugural ceremony for an interchange outside the illegal settlement of Adam, which is located in the centre of the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu said: “Our enemies want to uproot us from here, but… as long as I am the prime minister of Israel, not a single Jew will be uprooted from his home.”
He pledged to build more and more settlements and settlement units. “Not only will Jews not be uprooted from their homes, but we will build and add to them,” he said.
Netanyahu said that Israel would prove that the desire of anyone to end Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories “will be met by an impenetrable wall. That is why we are here today.”

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