BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union is criticizing Israel’s advancement of over 2,000 new homes in West Bank settlements. In a statement Monday, the EU reiterated its longstanding position that all settlement activity on occupied land is illegal and “erodes the viability” of the establishment of a Palestinian state. The Israeli anti-settlement watchdog group Peace […]

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Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” near the old US embassy on Monday, the 40th anniversary on the seizure of the mission, with the country’s army chief comparing the United States with a poisonous scorpion intent on harming Iran.
State television showed crowds packing the streets around the former mission, dubbed the “den of spies” after Iran‘s 1979 Islamic revolution. Marches and rallies were being held in some 1,000 communities across the country, state media said.
Hardline Islamist students stormed the embassy soon after the fall of the US-backed shah, and 52 Americans were held hostage there for 444 days. The two countries have been enemies ever since.

A city in eastern Germany has declared a “Nazi emergency” to tackle the rise of the far-right. Dresden is the capital of Saxony, which is considered a stronghold of the far-right movement.
“‘Nazinotstand’ means – similar to the climate emergency – that we have a serious problem. The open democratic society is threatened,” local councilor Max Aschenbach, who tabled the motion, told BBC News.
Dresden’s city council approved a resolution Wednesday night to 39 votes to 29 to pass the motion that declared “anti-democratic, anti-pluralist, misanthropic and right-wing-extremist attitudes and actions, including violence in Dresden, are occurring with increasing frequency.”

BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has paid tribute to 10 people killed by a neo-Nazi group in an eastern German city where a tree planted in honor of the first victim was recently destroyed. Merkel on Monday visited a park in Zwickau, where 10 new trees have now been planted in memory of […]

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz addressed the escalation on Israel’s southern border, saying he estimates a military operation could be inevitable.
“We hoped to reach an arrangement before a large operation, but the way it seems now, we might be forced to launch a large military operation and only then reach an understanding,” he told Israel’s Army Radio after the meeting ended.
“If there will be no choice and we will want to remove the Hamas regime, it will have to be a ground [operation], and that has its price,” he explained.
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AMMAN (AP) – Jordan’s foreign minister says two of its citizens detained by Israeli authorities will be released later this week, after over two months in detention. Ayman Safadi tweeted Monday that Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Miri will return to Jordan “before the end of the week.” He did not specify when. Israel arrested […]

TEHRAN (AP) – The head of Iran’s nuclear program says Tehran is now operating 60 IR-6 advanced centrifuges in violation of its atomic deal with world powers. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi mean that Iran is now operating double the amount of advanced centrifuges than was previously known. Salehi made the announcement to state […]

A new Harvard-Harris national poll has former Vice President Joe Biden running a substantial lead ahead of his closest rivals, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Here’s where things get interesting – the survey asked respondents to choose a candidate if the pool were expanded to include Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, and John Kerry.
Once these candidates are added to the mix, the race changes dramatically. Biden still leads with 19% of the Democratic vote, but Clinton comes in second with 18%. Warren falls to 13%, and Sanders to 12%. Once independents were added to the mix, Clinton and Biden tied at 13%.
The only questions is if Hillary, who has hinted to another run in 2020, will decide to join the race after her epic loss in 2016.