Dozens of people were killed in a stampede at a religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu described as a "heavy disaster" ... The ecstatic crowds packed the Mount Meron slope in defiance of COVID-19 warnings by health officials ... Also read ... Reports ... .
Police in India's capital Delhi have asked local authorities to identify more sites for cremations, as the city recorded its highest Covid death toll. A ferocious second wave is ravaging parts of India, overwhelming hospitals, morgues and crematoriums ... India reported 3,645 deaths on Thursday, which was another record ... Related Topics. .
A Greek court has sentenced a Syrian refugee to 52 years in prison for “illegally” crossing into the country with his family in the midst of the country’s crackdown on irregular migration through Turkey last year ... .
Troops and equipment are leaving Afghanistan, days ahead of the official start of the U.S. withdrawal, the White House said Thursday, marking the beginning of the end of America’s longest war ... “It will be deliberate and conducted in a safe and responsible manner that ensures the protection of our forces,” she said ... The U.S ...All for one and one for all.
A reporter at Rupert Murdoch’s New York tabloid has resigned after she claimed she was forced to write an incorrect story about migrants and Kamala Harris... .
Peruvian front-running left-wing presidential candidate PedroCastillo was rushed to a clinic in Lima on Thursday for "respiratory" illness, forcing him to suspend campaigning, the candidate's party said on social media ...Today's scheduled activities are suspended," the party said ... "Dear compatriots ... ....
“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the HighCastle. For good or bad, COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world. It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world (and our freedoms) and altering the playing field faster than we can keep up. Owing in large part to the U.S ...GlobalDisease... It cannot ... .
Myanmar government forces launched airstrikes against ethnic minority guerrillas in two areas of the country on Wednesday, local reports said ... Anti-coup protesters run after seeing police and soldiers arrive to disperse their demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 27, 2021. AP ... AP ... Col ... According to the U.N ... Sakchai Lalit/AP ... .
Sudan has informed Russia it is suspending an agreement granting Moscow a naval facility just north of Port Sudan, the country’s main commercial hub on the Red Sea, according to a senior Sudanese military official ... Before implementation, the pact will have to be reviewed by its 300-member parliament, the letter read ... Read More ... .
SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person ... “Nobody comes to your rescue,” said Blessing, wiping tears from her cheeks during a recent interview ... ___ ... ___.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An underground nuclear waste storage tank in Washington state that dates to World War II appears to be leaking contaminated liquid into the ground, the U.S.Department of Energy said Thursday ... The first was discovered in 2013. Many more of the 149 single-walled storage tanks at the site are suspected of leaking ... .