Tens of thousands displaced in new Gaza City escalation
The exodus from Gaza City’s eastern Shujaiya district follows days of reported intense bombardment by the Israeli military, whose tanks have been sighted “around 100” metres east of Salah El Din road, the main north-south axis. “People in this area…
Economic turmoil in Bolivia fuels distrust in government and its claim of a ‘failed coup’
LA PAZ — Signs reading “I’m buying dollars” line the doors of Víctor Vargas’ shoe shop in the heart of Bolivia’s biggest city, a desperate attempt to keep his family business alive. Just a few years ago, the 45-year-old Vargas…
Meta risks fines over ‘pay for privacy’ model breaking EU rules
Brussels, Belgium — The EU accused Facebook owner Meta on Monday of breaching the bloc’s digital rules, paving the way for potential fines worth billions of euros. The charges against the US tech titan follow a finding last week against…
Russian defense ministry says it shot down 36 Ukrainian drones
Russia’s defense ministry said Monday the country’s air defenses shot down 36 Ukrainian aerial drones that were involved in attacks on Russian regions along the border with Ukraine. The ministry said it downed 18 drones over the Bryansk region, nine…
Russia kills 1, injures 8 in attack on Ukraine’s Kharkiv
Russia attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, on Sunday with a guided bomb, killing one person and injuring eight, officials said. Mayor Ihor Terekhov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the bomb hit near the city center, triggering a…
Space Pioneer says part of rocket crashed in central China
Beijing — Beijing Tianbing Technology Company said Sunday that the first stage of its Tianlong-3 rocket under development had detached from its launch pad during a test due to structural failure and landed in a hilly area of the city…
Genome study deepens mystery of what doomed Earth’s last mammoths
About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth’s wooly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world’s charismatic Ice Age animals. But what doomed this last…
List of threatened species grows by 1,000
More than 45,000 species are now threatened with extinction — 1,000 more than last year — according to an international conservation organization that blames pressures from climate change, invasive species and human activity such as illicit trade and infrastructural expansion….
Ice baths and ventilators: India’s hospitals adapt to killer heat
NEW DELHI — The Nigerian student only popped out to repair his phone, but he ended up in a New Delhi hospital, the latest victim of a brutal heat wave that has cost scores of lives, sent birds plummeting from…
New blood tests may help predict who is at risk of preeclampsia
When you’re expecting a baby, you hope nothing goes wrong. But at least one in 20 people who are pregnant develop a scary complication called preeclampsia, a high blood pressure disorder that kills 70,000 women and 500,000 babies worldwide every…