How Israel’s ‘Blue Line’ team seizes Palestinian land in the West Bank

Al-Mughayyir, occupied West Bank – As the October olive harvest approaches, Bilal Abu Alia stands near his home, gazing at his family’s land – territory he says Israeli authorities have taken from his family in the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyir, northeast of Ramallah.

UN expands list of firms involved in illegal Israeli settlement activities

With addition of 61 more companies, the list now includes 214 businesses in 11 countries, most of them Israeli.

The United Nations human rights office has added 61 more companies to its database of businesses engaging in activities linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

How recent grads and college students should be thinking about AI, the CV, and the job market

Artificial intelligence is transforming the hiring process, leaving many college students and recent graduates searching for ways to stand out in an increasingly competitive job market. As employers adopt AI-powered screening tools, young job seekers say landing an interview can feel more challenging than ever.

Iraqi airports halt Iranian flights after new US aviation sanctions

Baghdad, Najaf, Erbil, and Sulaimaniyah airports suspend flights as US ramps up pressure on Iran’s aviation sector.

Four Iraqi airports have suspended all flights to and from Iran days after the United States announced new aviation sanctions on any global companies doing business with Iranian airlines.

The Chinese Off-Roader With A Waterproof Engine Also Has Propellers And Sonar For Emergency Water Travel - Jalopnik

Devoted Jalopnik readers may already know about the Geely Galaxy Cruiser 700 (also known as the Battleship 700), and they may already know it as the Chinese SUV that uses a waterproof engine. Admittedly, that distinction is a little futile unless the rest of this car's mechanicals are also waterproof, but lo and behold, it looks like they are. The Geely, it would appear, also has propellers and sonar that'll let it travel across water.

Merritt Wever Was Ready to Play Someone ‘A Little Rotten’ in ‘Primetime’

The Power Broker

The actor talks about the “warped” world of Lance Oppenheim’s take on To Catch a Predator, and how her manipulative TV-producer character left a bad taste in her mouth

Overcrowding and racism at Manston asylum centre linked to government decisions, inquiry hears

A catalogue of failures including racism, use of force and chronic overcrowding at a Home Office processing site for people who arrive on small boat were linked to decisions made at the highest level of government, an independent inquiry has heard.

Ed Sheeran Gillette Stadium Concerts Canceled

Ed Sheeran‘s tour stops at Gillette Stadium have been canceled.

The shows, set to take place on Friday and Saturday nights at the Foxborough, Massachusetts, venue, have been axed due to a nor’easter headed up the East Coast.

See U2’s 50th-Anniversary Performance at Their Old High School

Milestones

The Irish superstars returned to their Dublin roots, just after announcing new album Carnaval De Luz

Fifty years ago this week, Larry Mullen Jr pinned a message to a noticeboard at Dublin’s Mount Temple High School that famously read “drummer seeks musicians.” To mark that anniversary, U2 returned to that very school this afternoon to perform a special career-spanning gig in the playground. With an audience that included current students and even the band’s religious education teacher, Sophie Shirley, the band entered shortly after 2 p.m., to the appropriate strains of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.”