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but treating it like al Qaeda and using this as a reason to not negotiate with moderates like Abbas only convinces skeptical Palestinians that negotiations will never work. Indeed

he might have realized this when he went before Congress this morning. And he might have done something bold: Acknowledge that the age of Jewish settlement is over. He did mention

Zahar criticized the statements made by Hamas leader Khalid Meshal on 4 May in Cairo during the signing of the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas. Zahar said that Khalid Meshal did not have any right to say that Hamas would give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a...

and do not represent the position of the Hamas movement or any of its institutions. They represent a violation of the organizational traditions followed by Hamas

saying that some media outlets are trying to convince the public that there is division within the ranks of Hamas. Al-Bardawil also stressed that Hamas figures have the right to issue their statements using whatever language they wish so long as they are expressing their own view...

another Epstein victim alleged in court papers that Epstein treed her to have sex with Britain's Prince Andrew and high-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz when she was a

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the aliens could confidently predict that our biosphere would face doom in a few billion years when the Sun flares up and dies. But could they have predicted this unprecedented runaway fever -- less than half way through the Earth's life?

for different assumptions about future rates of fossil fuel use. For each such assumption there’s a spread bevause it remains unclear how much the climatic effects of CO2 are amplified by associated changes in water vapour and clouds – the so-called sensitivity factor.

only 2 percent of publicly funded R and D is devoted to these challenges. Why shouldn’t the percentage be comparable to spending on medical or defence research?

the sooner will their prices fall so they become affordable to developing countries – where more generating capacity will be needed -- where the health of the poorest billions is jeopardized by smoky stoves burning wood or dung -- and where there would otherwise be pressure...

and thereby cut costs compared to NASA or ESA. But they should be promoted as adventures or extreme sports -- the phrase ‘space tourism’ should be avoided. It lulls people into unrealistic confidence.

but SETI programmes are a worthwhile gamble - because success in the search would carry the momentous message that concepts of logic and physics aren't limited to the hardware in human skulls.

as well as into the past -- this century may be a defining era. The century when humans jump-start the transition to electronic (and potentially immortal) entities

even if a mere instant in the history of our planet. And that’s something that universities can do -– not least because they’re full of young people who will live to the end of the century. We should use their expertise to address the extreme ‘low probability/high consequence’ t...