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Israel Is One of Only 5 Countries Without a Written Constitution. What Can It Learn From One of the Oldest—the UK? The Media Line speaks to constitutional experts to explore lessons for Israel from the United Kingdom, which has operated for more than a millennium without a written constitution By Crystal Jones/The Media Line In the face of proposed controversial judicial reforms, the long-standing debate concerning Israel’s absence of a […]

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was a dire moment for life on Earth. Runaway global warming triggered by calamitous volcanism in Siberia inflicted the worst mass extinction on record – dooming perhaps 90% of species – roughly 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period. Unlike the asteroid 66 million years ago that ravaged the dinosaurs, this extinction event unfolded over a protracted time span, […]

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co’s Marvel and the estate of artist Steve Ditko both asked a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to hand them a win without waiting for trial in their copyright dispute over rights to superheroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. Marvel urged the court to reject the estate’s effort to reclaim Ditko’s interest in the characters, arguing he co-created them on the company’s behalf. Ditko’s […]

By Catherine Schenck HAMMANSKRAAL, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africans on Monday blamed their local government for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in the country’s most populous province. The health department in Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday in Hammanskraal, an area about 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of capital Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane. Almost 100 people have been […]

(Reuters) -The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said on Monday that a Ukrainian “sabotage group” had entered Russian territory in the Graivoron district bordering Ukraine and was being repelled by Russian forces. However, the Ukrainian outlet Hromadske cited Ukrainian military intelligence as saying two armed Russian opposition groups, the Liberty of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), both consisting of Russian citizens, were carrying out the attack. The […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -The young entrepreneur Charlie Javice pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co into buying her now-shuttered college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million in 2021. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Javice, 31, repeatedly lied about her company to JPMorgan, including by claiming that Frank – marketed as a tool to help simplify college financial aid applications for […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – First Citizens BancShares Inc, which acquired Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse, sued HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday, accusing it of illegally poaching more than 40 of the failed bank’s employees. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court says HSBC violated federal law by hiring away the workers in order to improperly gain access to Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) trade secrets. First Citizens in […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Brazil does not favour vaccination as a way to control bird flu because it would inevitably lead to trade barriers, one of its senior officials said on Monday. The world’s largest poultry exporter has confirmed five cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, in wild birds, including one in the state of Rio de Janeiro on Monday, but not in a commercial flock. […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – First Citizens BancShares Inc, which acquired Silicon Valley Bank following its collapse, sued HSBC Holdings PLC on Monday, accusing it of illegally poaching more than 40 of the failed bank’s employees. The lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court says HSBC violated federal law by hiring away the workers in order to improperly gain access to Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) trade secrets. First Citizens in […]