The US economy is about to tumble into a recession, economic experts have forecast, dismissing more upbeat predictions from the Federal Reserve. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warned on Sunday that the Fed’s inflation-related forecasts have been “much too optimistic” and insisted that it confront the recession staring it in the face.

The defection of a key lawmaker has left PM Naftali Bennett’s government holding fewer than half of parliamentary seats Israel may be headed for its fifth election in three years as the ruling coalition headed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett shows signs of unraveling and losing its grip on power.

The idea of supplying nuclear weapons to Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict between Kiev and Moscow amounts to provoking a “nuclear conflict in the center of Europe” and is downright insane, Russian State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Sunday.