Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire rages out of control in northern California, with the region gripped by an “exceptionally dangerous” heatwave that is making conditions worse. More than 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) of grass and woodland have been consumed since Tuesday when a blaze started just outside Oroville, with […]
A Ukrainian family have been forced to flee to the UK for a second time after fighting in their city, Kharkiv, intensified. Yulia Brazhnyk and her children, Maks, 13, and Serhii, nine, originally came to Ramsbury, Wiltshire, in 2022 and stayed with local resident, Sarah Kinch. They travelled back to Ukraine in December 2022 to […]
Palestinians are streaming out of eastern Khan Younis, the second-largest city in Gaza, as an Israeli evacuation order affects roughly 250,000 people, the United Nations said Tuesday. Israel’s military estimated that around 1.9 million people — more than 80% of all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip — are now clustered into the territory’s central region. […]
The Israeli army said on Tuesday that it had attacked rocket launch pads in the south of Gaza during the night following rocket fire from the war-ravaged coastal strip. In order to avoid civilian casualties, residents of eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Khan Younis were asked to leave the affected area, the army said. […]
The Israeli army said it had attacked rocket launch pads in the south of Gaza during the night following rocket fire from the coastal strip. In order to avoid civilian casualties, residents of eastern neighbourhoods of the city of Khan Younis were asked to leave the affected area, the army said. According to eyewitness reports, […]
Palestinians have been fleeing districts to the east of Gaza’s second city of Khan Younis after Israel issued evacuation orders. Overnight and into the morning, witnesses reported multiple Israeli strikes in and around Khan Younis. A medical source and the Palestinian Red Crescent said eight people had been killed and more than 30 wounded. Patients […]
Trail cameras monitoring a rattlesnake rookery in Colorado have captured footage showing several snakes slithering for cover in a hail storm, then emerging to drink from melting ice pellets. Project RattleCam shared the accompanying footage Tuesday, explaining: “There was a brief hail storm at the rookery yesterday. The snakes fled, then drank the melting ice.” […]
Palestinians have been fleeing Gaza City’s eastern Shejaiya district amid intense Israeli bombardment and a reported incursion by ground forces. One Gaza City resident said it had “sounded as if the war is restarting”, while Hamas-run authorities said air strikes had killed at least seven people. Palestinian armed groups said they had targeted a tank […]
State police say two people tried to drive away from a traffic stop with a trooper in their car. It was after 1:30 a.m. Sunday when the trooper first pulled over Lamar Bailey, 36, and Kelsey Meyers, 28, near the intersection of Vogel Road. The duo reportedly pulled into a Sheetz parking lot but then […]
Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday. Russian officials said at least five people, including three children, had died of shrapnel wounds – and they expected the death toll to rise. A video shot by a tourist on the beach shows […]
Shrapnel from an intercepted US-made missile fired by Ukraine hit a beach packed with sunbathing tourists in occupied Crimea on Sunday. Russian officials said at least five people, including three children, had died of shrapnel wounds – and they expected the death toll to rise. A video shot by a tourist on the beach shows […]
Cooler weather — and the chance of rain — could bring some relief but also the risk of danger this week to firefighters battling blazes in southern New Mexico that killed one person, damaged hundreds of structures and forced thousands to evacuate. Strong wind pushed the larger of two wildfires into the mountain village of […]