Stop US shipment of fuel to Israel's armed forces as evidence of Gaza war crimes mounts

Headline Title: Stop US shipment of fuel to Israel's armed forces as evidence of Gaza war crimes mounts 04 August 2014 Amnesty International is appealing to the US government to immediately halt the transfer of a US fuel shipment currently on its way to Israel for use by the Israeli military. The organization has repeatedly called for a comprehensive arms embargo on all parties to the conflict, amidst mounting evidence that war crimes are being committed by both sides in the past four weeks in Gaza. The US government has continued to supply hundreds of thousands…

Read complete article

~	Belief in democracy is on the decline in Africa. Traditional institutions can help restore its importance

~	Leopard DNA study in South Africa traces ancestry to ice age – and will guide conservation

~	How to buy a good pair of sunglasses

~	Fossil captures starfish splitting itself in two – showing this has been happening for 155 million years

~	Britain is not as broken as everyone seems to think

~	Seagrass meadows are rapidly expanding near inhabited islands in Maldives – here’s why

~	Ukraine war: why the Russian army is still using morse code more than a century after its invention

~	The Karate Kid at 40: why the film’s lasting appeal stems from a simplistic stereotyping of the ‘mysterious east’

~	French prison break: violent scenes are a symptom of authorities’ struggle with organised crime

~	Swipe right or left? How dating apps are impacting modern masculinity