Many British subjects, a lot of them Jewish, are applying for German passports. As the report above says, it is a development that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. This is said to be the consequence of the expected impact of Brexit on the UK economy. In the U.S., and further to yesterday’s story that polls show Donald Trump losing, a new “poll of polls” reveals Clinton sitting at 47 percent with Trump at 39 percent. In Iraq, it seems the government is finally about to reconquer the town of Mosul from ISIS. The military says it has inflicted “heavy losses of life and equipment” on ISIS in a district southeast of Mosul, as Iraqi-led forces close in on the city in the long-awaited battle to recapture it from the terror group.