Global Week in Review: Super Tropical Cyclone Ravages Pacific Nation Vanuatu

Benjamin Netanyahu says no to Palestinian state, plus more.

Super Tropical Cyclone Ravages Pacific Nation - Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu vows to remove Palestinian state if re-elected, plus more. — Patrice PeckThe Pacific nation of Vanuatu declared a state of emergency after Cyclone Pam tore through on March 13, NBC News reports. At least eight people were killed, but the death toll is expected to rise. According to BBC, President Baldwin Lonsdale said the natural disaster had "wiped out" all the development of recent years and everything would have to be rebuilt. Lonsdale cited climate change as the cause of the cyclone, noting that his country had experienced changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier-than-usual rain.(Photo: AP Photo/Dave Hunt, Pool)
Benjamin Netanyahu: No Palestinian State If Re-Elected - Two days ahead of Israel's highly-anticipated parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that a Palestinian state would not be established if he is elected, AP reported on Monday. “I think that whoever today moves to establish a Palestinian state and withdraw from territory is giving attack territory for Islamic extremists against the state of Israel,” Netanyahu told the news website. “Whoever ignores that is burying his head in the sand. The left is doing that, burying its head in the sand time after time." According to the latest opinion polls, Netanyahu's main opposition and underdog Isaac Herzog and his party Zionist Union is in the lead. "I believe in a certain type of leadership that is not always customary in this region. I'm not a general. I don't give orders. I know how to w...
DRC Frees US Diplomat Who Attended Pro-Democracy Event - On Sunday, the ongoing pro-democracy protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo made headlines when journalists, activists and a U.S. diplomat were detained, International Business Times UK reports. Diplomat Kevin Sturr was reportedly released on Monday, along with the journalists. A government spokesperson claimed that the detainees were suspected of being a threat to national security after attending a conference in the capital of Kinshasa that encouraged the participation of youths in politics. (Photo: PAPY MULONGO/AFP/Getty Images)Cameroon's Rare Chimps Move Closer to Humans - A recent AlJazeera report claims that the expansion of farming and forest clearing in Cameroon is threatening the country's rare chimpanzee population. "They tell you their grandparents have been farming here, but this is primary forest," Martin Mikeš, a Czech volunteer conservationist, told AlJazeera. "This is forest and it belongs to chimpanzees." Local forest conservation workers also revealed that a new sub-species of chimpanzees might have emerged, referring to the chimps they discovered living unusually close to human settlements and eating cultivated crops.(Photo: Eco Images / Getty Images)

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Super Tropical Cyclone Ravages Pacific Nation - Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu vows to remove Palestinian state if re-elected, plus more. — Patrice PeckThe Pacific nation of Vanuatu declared a state of emergency after Cyclone Pam tore through on March 13, NBC News reports. At least eight people were killed, but the death toll is expected to rise. According to BBC, President Baldwin Lonsdale said the natural disaster had "wiped out" all the development of recent years and everything would have to be rebuilt. Lonsdale cited climate change as the cause of the cyclone, noting that his country had experienced changing weather patterns, rising seas and heavier-than-usual rain.(Photo: AP Photo/Dave Hunt, Pool)

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