Almost 450,000 Palestinians have fled from Rafah over the past week, the UN says, as Israeli tanks reportedly push deeper into the southern Gaza city. “People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear,” warned the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa. Israel’s military says it is continuing “operations against terror targets” in the east of the […]
A leading member of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Björn Höcke, has been fined for using a prohibited Nazi slogan, a regional court ruled on Tuesday evening. The regional court in the eastern German city of Halle sentenced Höcke to a fine for using symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations. The court imposed […]
[Source] A woman in China’s Guizhou province was sentenced to prison for growing nearly 1,000 opium poppies on the roof of her apartment building to purportedly use them as a spice for her hot pot. Key points: The woman, identified only by her surname Zhang, received opium poppy seeds from her father last year. She […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The students at the University of San Francisco protesting the war in Gaza are holding a rally Tuesday as they face a deadline to vacate their encampment or face potential sanctions. In a letter posted to the USF website addressed to “Member of the People’s University of Palestine,” school administrators set […]
Israel and Egypt are locked in a row over the Rafah border crossing, blaming each other for its continued closure as Gaza’s humanitarian crisis worsens. Israeli forces have taken control of the Gaza side of the crossing. On Tuesday Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he had told the UK and Germany about “the need […]
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has sought to rally the spirits of Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them they are not alone and that billions of dollars in American military aid on its way to the country will make a “real difference” on the battlefield. After a day of meetings with […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been sending food, water containers, canvases and other supplies to areas impacted by double disasters in Papua New Guinea. Torrential rains combined with strong winds during March and April triggered flooding and landslides throughout the nation, which comprises the eastern half of the island of New […]
At a former railway station in Rio de Janeiro, a fast-growing mountain of food, bottled water and clothes donated to Brazil’s thousands of flood victims testify to a rare unity of purpose in a country marred by deep political enmity. In solidarity with residents of the water-ravaged southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazilians […]
The intense northern hemisphere summer heat that drove wildfires across the Mediterranean, buckled roads in Texas and strained power grids in China last year made it not just the warmest summer on record – but the warmest in some 2,000 years, new research suggests. The stark finding comes from one of two new studies released […]
A baby girl who weighed just over 1lb when she was born prematurely in November has beaten the odds and gone home with her parents after spending her first six months in hospital in the US. Nyla Brooke Haywood was treated to a send-off party at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Illinois, attended by […]
Palestinian health authorities say Israel’s ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people from their homes. The war began on October 7th when Hamas militants stormed across the border into Israeli communities. Israel says the militants killed more than 1,200 […]
Eight watches belonging to Formula One star Michael Schumacher have sold for nearly four million Swiss francs (£3.5 million) at a Geneva auction. The top piece in the sale, organised by Schumacher’s family, was a watch given to the German racing superstar by former Ferrari chief executive Jean Todt as a Christmas present in 2004. […]