This upcoming super blue blood moon will be the third and final one in a series that began on December 2. Rabbi Berger, the Rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, noted that the confluence of Tu B’Shvat and a lunar eclipse was explicitly described in the Yalkut Moshe, a book of kabbalistic insights written in 1894 by Rabbi Moshe ben Yisrael Benyamin in Munkacs, Poland.

“A lunar eclipse in the Hebrew month of Shvat is an especially bad omen that will bring harsh natural phenomena,” Rabbi Berger said to Breaking Israel News, quoting the 124-year-old source. “The eclipse will usher in a period of intensified earthquakes around the world.”

Rabbi Berger explained that the current series of lunar eclipses will end with a second total lunar eclipse on the night of July 27, five days after Tisha B’Av (a major fast day commemorating the destruction of both Jewish Temples). “This lunar eclipse signals the beginning of a harsh period for the Bnei Ishmael (the sons of Ishmael, ie the Arab nations) which is necessary for the beginning of Moshiach (Messiah),” Rabbi Berger said.

Scientists have once again set up a mock Arctic base camp to educate world leaders about man-made global warming at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Climate scientists hope their mock camp illustrates how global warming could impact the Arctic, but the “Gore effect” may make it harder to get the message across. Davos has seen frigid temperatures along with about six feet of snow in the last six days.

CNBC reported that “heavy snow had already blocked the rail line through the Alps from Zurich, and villages along the route were at the highest level of avalanche alert.” Davos visitors were forced off trains and onto “a half-hour bus trip on back roads around the blockage and then loading them onto a crowded red commuter train that ran the rest of the way into Davos.”

Scientists hope to convince global leaders to take drastic actions to fight global warming. Climate has been a major topic of past Davos meetings, and even though most of the world signed onto the Paris climate accord, experts fear it’s not enough to stop “dangerous” warming. Indeed, high-profile celebrities and politicians have visited the camp in the past, including former Vice President Al Gore. Fashion designer Stella McCartney visited the camp this year, obviously bundled up to stay warm in the midst of all that snow.

Professor Flassbeck accused Germany of "cooking the books so that the surplus does not look as if it is increasing" as Mrs Merkel's nation was accused of understating the true size of its current trade surplus in a bid to deflect growing criticism from around the world. 

The US President last year said Germany was “very bad on trade” as he pointed at the “million of cars” Germany sold to the US. The President was reported as saying at the time: “Terrible. We will stop this. Germany is very 'unfair' on autos because the EU has a tariff of 10 percent while the US tariff is 2.5 percent.”

The sizeable “bilateral trade surplus” is of great concern to the US that could end up punishing the entire EU for the uneven trade flows of Berlin. The US treasury’s latest report declared: “Germany’s bilateral trade surplus with the US is very sizeable and a matter of concern. If Mr Trump imposed a sanction on German steel and automobiles, the entire EU would be dragged into the fold - this could punish nations like Ireland that significantly rely on America for trade.”

Germany has the biggest surplus in the world, in absolute terms, after statistics showed that it reached $287 billion last year - this outweighs that of China. Berlin has also been above 8 per cent of GDP for the last few years.

"Our great aim in Austria is to be a bridge-builder in this respect between the Visegrad states and the countries in western Europe," the 31-year-old conservative said. …A rift has emerged in recent years between Brussels and the Visegrad group of Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia - and in particular with Warsaw and Budapest. A sweeping revamp of state institutions by the nationalist governments in both countries have raised worries about the rule of law, judicial independence and media freedom.

Both have been the subject of legal action by the European Commission and they have refused to take part in a scheme to share out migrants around the 28-nation bloc. …Orban has called immigration the "Trojan Horse of terrorism" and earlier this month called migrants "Muslim invaders" of a Christian Europe. "The biggest danger today to the hopeful future of central Europe is migration of peoples," Orban told the news conference with Kurz on Tuesday.

"When I say that the future needs to be protected I mean that we have a culture, a Christian culture… We have a way of life, and we want to protect this way of life," Orban said. 

For many people, the addiction begins with prescription opioids. Over time tolerance builds. In order to numb their bodies and keep a dopamine rush going, many get the pills illegally, start using cheaper street heroin, or overdose on fentanyl hybrids that are up to fifty times stronger than heroin.

As the severity of the crisis gains national recognition, it is important to recognize that this is not the only drug crisis ravaging American families. There is also a psychiatric drug crisis, a central nervous system stimulant crisis (amphetamine for children), an immunization overload crisis, among other prescription drug dependency issues.

You see, for the most part, modern pharmacopeia is a powerful, dangerous drug cult masquerading as helpful medicine. The statistics do not lie. About 330,000 American and European patients die annually from appropriately prescribed prescription drugs. This is the fourth leading cause of death – iatrogenic deaths, or death by medicine.

During a frank ITV interview with Piers Morgan, Mr Trump warned the EU’s unfair treatment on American exporters would “morph into something very big” and “turn out to be very much to the EU’s detriment”. Hitting back to the American leader’s comments, Mr Schinas said: “For us trade policy is not a zero sum game. It is not about winners and losers. We here in the European Union believe that trade can and should be win-win.

"We also believe that while trade has to be open and fair it also has to be rules-based. The European Union stands ready to react swiftly and appropriately in case our exports are affected by any restrictive trade measures by the United States.” Washington is currently looking at a case to protect US economic interests on national security, including the imposition of import tariffs on steel and aluminium. 

In a sensational interview with Mr Morgan, which aired on Sunday night, Donald Trump took a sharp jab at Brussels. He said the EU was “was not cracked up to what it’s supposed to be”. Mr Trump said: “I’ve had a lot of problems with European Union, and it may morph into something very big from that standpoint, from a trade standpoint.

“We cannot get our product in. It’s very, very tough. And yet they send their product to us – no taxes, very little taxes. It’s very unfair. They’re not the only one, by the way. I could name many countries and places that do. But the European Union has been very, very unfair to the United States. And I think it will turn out to be very much to their detriment.” 

Politicians on both sides of the row have called for a decision to be made over the government’s leadership as the UK faces falling off a cliff edge, and tumbling out of the EU with no trade deal in place. The move would be damaging for both Britain and the bloc.

May’s right-hand man, Philip Hammond, has been speaking out of turn on a frequent basis, forcing the Tories to distance themselves from a comment by the staunch Remainer just days ago. He said UK and EU economies should diverge only “very modestly” after Brexit. The official line from the Tories backed away from the comments. But even some of those in his own party have called for his head, including the man tipped to take over the Tories, uber conservative Jacob Rees Mogg.

“I tend to disagree with the chancellor on many things, but on this issue he seems to be disagreeing with government policy, the Conservative Party manifesto and Mrs May’s speeches. MPs are calling on Theresa May to get tough and end the constant stream of U-turning,” he told ITV’s Robert Peston.

Former Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers joined calls for action over claims that the nation risks remaining in the EU “in all but name.” “Since the prime minister set out a bold vision in her Lancaster House speech, the direction of travel seems to have gone in only one single direction: towards a dilution of Brexit. If the government goes too much further down that path, there is a real danger that it will sign up to an agreement which could keep us in the EU in all but name, and which would therefore fail to respect the referendum result,” Villiers said.

Rather than insinuating that pro-leave Twitter users were duped by Russian agents, the company's head of public policy told Parliamentary investigators that it was unable to confirm links to Russian sources for thousands of "bots" that are part of the parliamentary investigation. Overall, Twitter examined 13,000 Brexit bots and found that only 1% could be conclusively linked to Russia, and that most of these bots have already been suspended.

In its statement, Twitter said its findings echoed the results of a study conducted by the Oxford Internet Institute. Researchers from the institute concluded that there was little evidence linking Russia to the Brexit vote. Finally, it appears the company has conclusively determined: The UK's disruptive decision to leave the European Union was not the work of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In a new paper published in Clinical Psychological Science, my colleagues and I found that the increases in depression, suicide attempts and suicide appeared among teens from every background – more privileged and less privileged, across all races and ethnicities and in every region of the country. All told, our analysis found that the generation of teens I call “iGen” – those born after 1995 – is much more likely to experience mental health issues than their millennial predecessors.

What happened so that so many more teens, in such a short period of time, would feel depressed, attempt suicide and commit suicide? After scouring several large surveys of teens for clues, I found that all of the possibilities traced back to a major change in teens’ lives: the sudden ascendance of the smartphone.