A Palestinian kills a 20 year-old Israeli and wounds two women in a stabbing attack at a gas station near the town of
Modi’in; the Palestinian assailant is shot and killed by
an officer at the scene.
(Ynet News)(Times of Israel)
Two Palestinian teenage girls, ages 14 and 16, use scissors to stab a 70-year-old Palestinian man whom they misidentified as an Israeli, and other Israeli civilians, near Jerusalem’s
Mahane Yehuda market; one of the attackers is killed and the other wounded while being subdued, and an Israeli civilian is wounded by police gunfire.
(Times of Israel)
A
Washington University in St. Louis (U.S.) international tax law expert says this deal is the biggest merger involving
tax inversion, i.e., relocation of a corporation's
legal domicile to a lower-tax nation, usually while retaining operations in its higher-tax country. "None of the special anti-inversion laws and regulations issued by the federal government will apply to Pfizer post-merger," Professor Adam Rosenzweig, JD, said. Rosenzweig believes this deal will encourage more U.S. companies to follow Pfizer's approach in future mergers.
(Washington University)
A new
United Nations report finds 90 percent of the thousands of disasters over the last two decades are weather-related. The majority have been caused by floods, storms, heatwaves and droughts. Researchers with the
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) suggest the cost has been between $250 and $350 billion per year, i.e., total of $5 trillion/$7 trillion. The report concurs with findings of previous studies that weather disasters are on the rise compared to previous decades. Flooding, in particular, is becoming more frequent and more devastating as sea levels continue to rise.
(UPI)
Blue Origin launches the unmanned
rocket New Shephard to the edge of space (100.5 km) and lands safely upright on its original launch pad in
Texas, becoming the first organization to do so.
(press release)(WSJ)