Israeli settlers launched new arson attacks across the West Bank on Monday, even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the latest attacks by what he described as a “small group of extremists.”
Category: 18 November 2025
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JAPAN’S ECONOMY CONTRACTS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 18 MONTHS
In this year’s third quarter, Japan’s economy contracted at an annualized rate of 1.8 percent, its first shrinkage in six quarters, government data showed.
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U.K. ECONOMY SLOWED FURTHER IN THIRD QUARTER
In this year’s third quarter, the U.K.’s economy managed to grow by just 0.1 percent, according to the Office for National Statistics. That followed a 0.3-percent bump in the preceding quarter. Economists in a Wall Street Journal survey had expected a 0.2-percent expansion from July through September.
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FUTURE OF GERMANY’S ECONOMY LOOKING WORSE
Surveying 186 economic analysts, German thinktank ZEW said its monthly Indicator of Economic Sentiment slipped 0.8 of a percentage point from October, settling at 38.5.
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WHAT THE FOUNDERS FEARED
America today would terrify the Founding Fathers. Armed troops roam the streets of major cities, masked government agents arrest people without probable cause and disrupt the public speech that the president hates and fears, and the president kills foreigners on the high seas whom he says might commit crimes should their small speedboats miraculously make it 1,500 miles to the United States.
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EUROZONE ECONOMY EXPANDS ON EXPORTS TO U.S.
In the third quarter, the Eurozone’s economy grew 0.2 percent above the second quarter, setting an annual pace 1.4 percent as exports to the U.S. surged after U.S. tariff rates were reduced in a final trade agreement.
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THREE DANGERS LURK FOR INVESTMENT MARKETS, WSWS WARNS
Three issues pose a growing danger to stock markets where valuations have been inflated by euphoria and lax oversight, the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) warned in a 12 November analysis.
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‘PHANTOM’ DATA CENTERS FLUMMOX ENERGY FORECASTS
AI developers are projecting their energy needs to be far beyond what they actually will be, making it impossible for utility companies to know how much new capacity they’ll need to build, industry executives complain.
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NEW AI DESIGN COULD BE KEY TO AGI, DEVELOPERS CLAIM
A new AI large language model (LLM) the developers have named “Dragon Hatchling” is a possible next step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), where AIs can outperform humans in virtually every intellectual pursuit, according to scientists at Pathway, the startup that designed it.
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DEMAND FOR MORTGAGES SURGED IN NOVEMBER’S FIRST WEEK
During the week ending 7 November, mortgage demand increased the most since September, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) said, ending the year’s home-selling season on a high note.