"We will always say things as they are," Grossi tells reporters on the first day of a regular meeting in Vienna of the IAEA board of governors, days after Israel says decision to shut Iranian probes was political.

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, the senior rabbi of Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City, delivered the keynote address at the Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism Conference, urging the movement's leaders to be "proactive" in countering those who attack Israel.

Ukrainian authorities have previously warned that the dam’s failure could unleash 18 million cubic meters (4.8 billion gallons) of water and flood Kherson and dozens of other areas where hundreds of thousands of people live.

“You have a problem,” my friend in Azerbaijan told me over dinner, “you think tactically, about tomorrow; the Iranians think strategically decades into the future. You have to start mimicking their thinking." 

The initial conditions gave the soldiers no chance in the incident at the Egyptian border.