Israel’s parliament passes 1st step of judicial overhaul
Marchers who completed the last leg of a four-day, 45-mile trek from Tel Aviv to Israel’s parliament to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary set up camp outside the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in Jerusalem, July 22, 2023. The protesters set up the camp ahead of a critical vote on the overhaul.
In a vote boycotted by the Israeli opposition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bid to overhaul the judiciary is in motion with a vote passed 64-0. Israelis have protested day after day for months, and those protests have included Israeli combat veterans and military reservists. And, Greece’s Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declared “war” with wildfires in a recent address to the country’s parliament. The country has been battling wildfires on islands at opposite ends of the country: western Corfu and eastern Rhodes. Also, since the start of the Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many European countries have been trying to find ways to reduce their dependency on Russian energy. One place they’re starting to look is West Africa, where Senegal and Mauritania are capitalizing on recent discoveries of natural gas. Plus, Boston’s links to the slave trade.
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