A best-case scenario for stocks is quickly fading, BMO says. The bank said that a Goldilocks scenario — an ideal economic setup for stocks where the US economy continues to grow while inflation is subdued — looks less likely due to a confluence of factors that could spark a global slowdown and impact equities. In
UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank have triggered a series of Israeli counter-measures against UK nationals and organisations. The sanctions came after Israel opened up tenders for the construction of settlement homes in the strategically important so-called E1 area east of Jerusalem, plans that have drawn widespread international condemnation. The
As the UK unveiled sanctions against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Israel responded with fury, declaring it would shutter Britain’s diplomatic mission to the Palestinians, kick out UK military staff from an international coordination base near Gaza and ban nearly a dozen left-wing British members of parliament from entering into Israel.
The World Bank’s headquarters in Washington DC.Credit: J. David Ake/Getty For years, the social and behavioural sciences have lived with an open secret: findings from studies in these fields can be difficult to reproduce. When independent researchers are unable to arrive at the same result as the original team despite using identical data and the
The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Ma’ale Adumim – an existing Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, overlooking Israel’s proposed E1 site. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, speaking to Parliament on Tuesday, announced sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank “to deter settlement expansion” and “prevent the development of E1”.
The sanctions were launched alongside France and Canada, who in a joint statement with the UK said the action “marks a further turning point in our approach to protecting the two-state solution”. Settlements are illegal under international law, and there has been a rise in violence towards Palestinians in the West Bank by settlers in
