What Israel Fears Most: An Encroachment to “Greater Israel”?

What Israel Fears Most: An Encroachment to “Greater Israel”?

Israel has strong US-led Western support. Security Council Resolution 2334, affirming the illegality of its settlements, changed nothing on the ground – nor will it any time ahead as far as it’s reasonable to predict. Eventual Palestinian self-determination based on pre-June 1967 borders is another matter entirely. The possibility of it happening any time ahead…

China Connects East & West with Longest Bullet Train Line

China Connects East & West with Longest Bullet Train Line

One of the world’s longest high-speed railways has started operating in China, linking the country’s prosperous eastern coast to the less-developed southwest, the state Xinhua news agency has reported. Just how many tunnels does China's #Shanghai–#Kunming high speed rail run through? Watch footage taken along part of the route pic.twitter.com/Dma3iKaKmH — People's Daily, China (@PDChina)…

Here’s North Korea’s Totalitarian Android Tablet

Here’s North Korea’s Totalitarian Android Tablet

When you think of North Korea, the first thing that springs to mind is probably not a well-featured tablet PC. But that’s just what researchers at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking festival revealed on Tuesday. Called Woolim, this tablet is designed to limit the distribution of contraband media, track its users, and generally act as…