- Tropical Storm Melissa to strengthen into major hurricane: Latest forecast ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Melissa forecast to become major hurricane this weekend, threatening Jamaica. Maps show its path. CBS News
- Tropical Storm Melissa, soon a hurricane, brings death, floods to Caribbean Al Jazeera
- Tropical Storm Melissa Forecast: Flood Danger For Jamaica, Haiti The Weather Channel
- Deadly Tropical Storm Melissa expected to rapidly intensify into major hurricane this weekend FOX Weather
Lithuania shuts airports and Belarus border after weather balloon incursion
Vilnius and Kaunas airports closed down after balloons drift into country’s airspace for third time this month
Lithuania closed its two biggest airports on Friday and shut crossings on its border with Belarus after helium weather balloons drifted into its territory, the third such occurrence in the Baltic state this month.
European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and other air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen, Munich and the Baltic region.
Continue reading...Video shows brutal attack on Palestinian woman in West Bank – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- Video shows brutal attack on Palestinian woman in West Bank ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- West Bank farmers gather precious olives as harvest season brings new settler attacks Reuters
- Palestinian woman in hospital after being clubbed by masked Israeli settler BBC
- West Bank olives and Russian drone attacks: photos of the day – Thursday The Guardian
- As the West Bank olive harvest begins, settlers attack Palestinians while the IDF watches Haaretz
Suspected drug kingpin caught after audacious escape from house arrest
Zhi Dong Zhang, known as Brother Wang, was attempting to flee to Russia with false papers when his plot unravelled.
Suspected drug kingpin caught after audacious escape from house arrest
Zhi Dong Zhang, known as Brother Wang, was attempting to flee to Russia with false papers when his plot unravelled.
Nearly two-thirds of South Sudanese children in child labour: Report
Study finds that rates soar to 90 percent in some regions as humanitarian crises compound childhood exploitation.
Dead soldiers’ teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon’s army – The Washington Post
- Dead soldiers’ teeth reveal diseases that doomed Napoleon’s army The Washington Post
- DNA Identifies 2 Bacterial Killers That Stalked Napoleon’s Army The New York Times
- Napoleon’s soldiers who died in Russian retreat had unexpected diseases, study finds The Guardian
- DNA reveals hidden killer of Napoleon’s troops in Russia DW
- What killed Napoleon's army? Scientists find clues in DNA from fallen soldiers' teeth : Shots - Health News NPR
Lithuania shuts airports, Belarus border crossings after balloon sightings
Move to close Vilnius, Kaunas airports and border comes after helium balloons drifted into the country's territory.
Tennessee man’s heart still active nearly two minutes after execution, lawyer says
Allegation raises further questions about death of Byron Black in execution lawyer says was ‘100% botched’
A man executed on Tennessee death row showed signs of “sustained cardiac activity” for nearly two minutes after he was pronounced dead, his attorney said in court on Friday.
The allegation raises further questions about how the death of Byron Black unfolded and will increase scrutiny on capital punishment in Tennessee.
Continue reading...Napoleon’s soldiers who died in Russian retreat had unexpected diseases, study finds
Analysis of DNA from teeth of troops buried in mass grave suggests soldiers had paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever
When Napoleon ordered his army to retreat from Russia in October 1812, disaster ensued. Starving, cold, exhausted and struggling with sickness, an estimated 300,000 soldiers died.
Researchers now say they have identified two unexpected diseases among soldiers who died in the retreat – paratyphoid fever and relapsing fever – which provide fresh insights into their plight.
Continue reading...Trump officials to send election observers to California and New Jersey
Justice department targets two Democratic states holding off-year elections after requests from state Republicans
The Department of Justice is preparing to send federal election observers to California and New Jersey next month, targeting two Democratic states holding off-year elections following requests from state Republican parties.
The department announced it was planning to monitor polling sites in Passaic county, New Jersey, and five counties in southern and central California: Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Riverside and Fresno. The goal, according to the department, is “to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law”.
Continue reading...Four African countries taken off global money-laundering ‘grey list’
South Africa, Nigeria, Mozambique, Burkina Faso removed from Financial Action Task Force's financial crimes list.
What’s in Reagan advert that caused US-Canada trade talks collapse?
Comparing the controversial advert quoting Ronald Reagan on tariffs with his original address.
Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up
Use of USS Gerald Ford along with fighter jets comes as president plots strikes against alleged cartels on land
The Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a major escalation in the Trump administration’s war against drug cartels that provides the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground.
The move will bring the USS Gerald Ford, with dozens of stealth fighter jets and surveillance aircraft, in addition to other warships that accompany the carrier, to the coast of Venezuela as it nears the end of its current deployment in the Mediterranean.
Continue reading...Warships, fighter jets and the CIA – what is Trump’s endgame in Venezuela?
President Trump says he wants to tackle the drugs trade but many believe he is trying to dislodge President Nicolas Maduro.
Ukraine’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Has the Wind at Its Back – The New York Times
- Ukraine’s ‘Coalition of the Willing’ Has the Wind at Its Back The New York Times
- Keir Starmer says Putin 'not serious about peace' after meeting Volodymyr Zelensky - live updates BBC
- Zelenskyy meets European partners to discuss arming Ukraine with more missiles, depriving Putin of more money CBS News
- Kyiv's allies say frozen Russian assets should be quickly used to aid Ukraine Reuters
- ‘Ukraine’s future is our future’, says Starmer, as he vows coalition will take Russian oil and gas off market to choke funding – as it happened The Guardian
Ontario to stop running anti-tariff advert that angered Trump
The advertisement will be paused from Monday so "trade talks can resume" with the US, Doug Ford says.
Venezuela’s Maduro says US ‘fabricating war’ as it deploys world’s largest warship
The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford marks a major escalation in what the US says is a campaign to target drug traffickers.
Ukraine allies pledge to take Russian oil and gas off global market
A "coalition of the willing" meeting in London seeks to increase pressure on Russia to end its war in Ukraine.