Acting Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called it the largest ballistic attack of the war. Ukraine’s air force put it lower, saying it was one of the largest and the fourth strike of comparable size on Kyiv in the past five weeks. It said it shot down 18 of the 41 missiles and downed nearly all […]
Continue ReadingMeta’s Instagram and Facebook social networks appeared to suffer some outages on Sunday, with users reporting issues with the app and website. According to Downdetector, there were 4,808 reports filed by Facebook users in the United States as of 0746 GMT, with 63 per cent of users facing issues accessing the website. Another 2,829 reports […]
Continue ReadingIsraeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich wants to build new Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Image: keystone July 19, 2026, 12:38 p.mJuly 19, 2026, 12:38 p.m The Israeli army says it has declared an area around the Gaza Strip a military exclusion zone to prevent a planned march by right-wing extremist and right-wing ministers, MPs […]
Continue ReadingA ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with 53 people so far rescued, local authorities have said. The MV Barima capsized near Iron Punt, on its route from Georgetown to Port Kaituma. A distress call was received at 23:01 local time (03:01 +1 BST), triggering an urgent search operation involving […]
Continue ReadingRescue crews used excavators to comb through rubble in search of survivors from a landslide in the south-western Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left another 34 missing. Massive amounts of rocks and soil roared down a slope and buried more than 10 residential buildings early on Friday in Pengshui […]
Continue ReadingJuly 19, 2026, 7:30 a.mJuly 19, 2026, 7:30 a.m Mexican authorities discovered 10 bodies in Zacatecas state on Saturday. The state experienced high levels of violence between 2021 and 2022 due to fights between criminal groups over drug trafficking routes. The bodies were found in Morelos, Pánuco and San Alto, the secretary general of the […]
Continue ReadingLatvia has become the latest focus of what EU governments describe as Belarusian President Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s campaign to use migration as a tool of political pressure against the bloc’s eastern frontier. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING After years in which Latvia, Lithuania and Poland shared the bulk of irregular crossings from Belarus, Latvian authorities say the pressure has […]
Continue ReadingThe European Union has unveiled proposals that would slow cuts to businesses’ greenhouse gas emissions limits, as part of a major climate policy overhaul. The reforms would relax the rules of the bloc’s emissions trading system (ETS) to give businesses more time to reduce their carbon output than previously planned. The changes would mean some […]
Continue ReadingThe fire brigade is trying all means to contain the inferno.Video: twitter A devastating fire is currently raging in the small Norwegian town of Krokstadelva. According to the local police chief, around 100 residential units had already been destroyed by the flames shortly after 8 o’clock in the evening, and the surrounding forest was also […]
Continue ReadingA landslide on Friday on the outskirts of the south-western Chinese city of Chongqing killed at least eight people and left 34 missing, burying residential buildings and forcing more than 1,100 people to leave, according to local officials and state media reports. The landslide occurred at about 9.08am in Pengshui county on the outer edge […]
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