US Removes UN Gaza Rapporteur Francesca Albanese From Sanctions List

'Cautious Optimism' Amid Stalemated Pakistan Talks, Even As Iran FM Insists No Meeting Planned With US Side Summary Iran denies that FM Abbas Araghchi's trip to Pakistan will include new talks with US, rejecting reports that Trump is sent his negotiating team to restart negotiations. 24/7 shuttle diplomacy (via Al Jazeera): There’' been shuttle diplomacy, and as one diplomat said, it's been relentless diplomacy that has been put forward by Pakistan from all sides. Iran's military says finger on the trigger: "greater power & readiness than before." Pakistani mediators are "cautiously optimistic" despite it being clear...

Study Shows Some Humans Are Evolving To Be 'Foxier' Authored by David Randall via RealClearScience, The latest report from David Reich’s genetics lab at Harvard is that “Ancient DNA reveals pervasive directional selection across West Eurasia.” In other words, humans have been continuing to evolve in Europe and the Middle East for the last 10,000 years, with significant effect. Reich’s paper broadly substantiates the thesis of Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending’s The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. Civilization hasn’t ended biological evolution, but proceeds alongside it.  Reich’s genome-wide association...

President Donald Trump believes he will reach a deal with Cuba as his economic war has caused the collapse of the island’s electric grid.  On Sunday, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he believes “something will happen with Cuba pretty quickly,” but added that he must finish the war with Iran first. “Cuba […]