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Wales rarely makes the international news headlines. However, last week it produced a political earthquake that saw the UK’s ruling Labour Party lose an election in Caerphilly for the first time since 1910.

Recent comments by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich regarding ºÚÁÏÉçÇø are shameful and troubling. Unfortunately, they reflect a mindset that risks undermining the very fabric of the state of Israel and Jewish relationships in the Middle East.

Belem, a port city in northern Brazil, will fall under the global spotlight this month when it hosts COP30, one of the largest annual UN conferences on climate change.

We cannot call it reparations or compensation, so let us call it a peace tax instead: a 1 percent increase in income and value added tax in an Israeli economy of more than $500 billion would go a long way toward making the Palestinian state a reality. But there is much more to it.

The year 2024 was the warmest ever recorded. Global average temperatures reached 15.10°C, about 1.60°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.