At least 31 people have been killed and 112 wounded across Ukraine in a barrage of Russian missile attacks – the deadliest in months. A missile smashed into a children’s hospital in the capital, Kyiv, on Monday, trapping victims under rubble. Dozens of volunteers, doctors and rescue workers dug through debris of a part of … Read more
Hurricane Beryl’s path of destruction is far from over, as the deadly storm charts a course towards northeastern Mexico and southern Texas after devastating the Yucatán Peninsula early Friday morning. Jamaica and multiple locations across the Caribbean, including Barbados and the Cayman Islands, suffered widespread damage after Hurricane Beryl made landfall earlier this week, with 11 … Read more
Voters in India have braved soaring temperatures to cast their ballots in the last phase of the country’s staggered elections to decide the fate of 904 candidates, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The polls on Saturday conclude the largest electoral exercise in the world that kicked off on April 19, with some 969 million people eligible … Read more
Spiralling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States have spread to more campuses, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in. The comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson are likely to evoke strong emotions in a country where the 1970 killing by National Guardsmen of … Read more
Israel’s war on Gaza entered its 200th day on Tuesday with fears mounting of an Israeli ground assault in the overcrowded south of Gaza. The Israeli army carried out intense shelling overnight of the Gaza neighbourhoods of Tuffah, Shujayea and Zeitun. Shelling and loud explosions were heard in southwest Gaza and Khan Younis in the … Read more
Columbia University officials have ordered classes to be held virtually as they seek to de-escalate tensions on the New York City campus during pro-Palestinian demonstrations. “To deescalate the rancor and give us all a chance to consider next steps, I am announcing that all classes will be held virtually on Monday,” Columbia President Nemat “Minouche” … Read more
Palestinians have witnessed devastation as they returned to the northern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza after the Israeli army withdrew. Palestinians inspected damaged homes and salvaged usable items from the rubble of demolished houses. Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced 85 percent of the territory’s population amid acute shortages of food, clean … Read more
Israeli tanks have pushed back into some areas of the northern Gaza Strip which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes have conducted air raids on Rafah, where more than one million displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in the south of the territory, killing and wounding several people. Residents reported an internet outage in the … Read more
A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say. The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity. The actual maximum temperature in the city was 42C on Monday, the … Read more
Scores of brightly coloured tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament, horns blaring, as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs protested in Athens. “Without us, you don’t eat,” one banner at Tuesday’s rally said. Some farmers carried mock coffins and funeral garlands as symbols of their plight. The farmers, whose demands are similar … Read more