‘As if we don’t exist’: Under bombs in Lebanon, Americans feel abandoned
A small town in central Thailand is mourning the 23 who died in a school bus fire – The Associated Press
- A small town in central Thailand is mourning the 23 who died in a school bus fire The Associated Press
- Thai police arrest driver and work to identify victims of the school bus fire that killed 23 CNN
- Memories and prayers are shared at small-town funeral for the victims of horrific Thai bus fire The Hill
- Thailand: More than 20 children dead in Thailand bus crash BBC.com
- Inferno bus owner ‘tried to hide illegal gas cylinders’ Bangkok Post
Iran Exposed to Israeli Counterattack After Blows Against Its Allies – The Wall Street Journal
- Iran Exposed to Israeli Counterattack After Blows Against Its Allies The Wall Street Journal
- A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran The New York Times
- The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding The Economist
- What’s Next in the Israel-Iran Conflict? The New Yorker
- Iran Pushed Into Missile Fire by Sustained Israel Escalation Bloomberg
Former EU environment chief hits out at plans to delay anti-deforestation law
Credibility ‘damaged’ by proposed 12-month delay, which followed lobbying from governments and firms around the world
A former top environment official has said the EU’s credibility on its climate commitments has been damaged by plans for a one-year delay to a law to combat deforestation that followed intense lobbying from companies and governments around the world.
Virginijus Sinkevičius, a Lithuanian MEP who was the environment commissioner until mid-July, said postponing the deforestation regulation would be “a step backward in the fight against climate change”.
Continue reading...Gulf leaders support Palestine – but many would not mind seeing Israel challenge Iran
The escalating Middle East conflict could create a dangerous vacuum – or an opportunity – for several states
The coincidental timing of an emergency meeting of Gulf foreign ministers in Doha with a visit to the same city by the Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, for talks with Qatar’s emir raises questions about how the Gulf states will react if Israel pushes ahead with its plan to use its recent military success not just to weaken Iran, but reorder the Middle East.
This Sunni coalition of six Gulf monarchs is not naturally well disposed to Iran or its Shia proxies, and only in 2016 labelled Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. But they also oppose further Israeli escalation, and believe it is ultimately only Washington that has the means to restrain the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Continue reading...Watch: ‘Ring of fire’ eclipse shines over South America
Singapore ex-minister gets prison in rare case
Six migrants die after Mexico soldiers open fire
Six migrants killed after Mexico soldiers open fire – BBC.com
- Six migrants killed after Mexico soldiers open fire BBC.com
- 6 migrants shot dead near Guatemalan border when Mexican army troops open fire ABC News
- Mexico: Soldiers open fire on migrant truck, killing 6 DW (English)
- Mexican soldiers kill six after opening fire on truck carrying migrants Al Jazeera English
- Six migrants die after Mexican soldiers fire on pick-up truck Reuters Canada
Terror royalty: Nasrallah’s son-in-law killed in airstrike on Damascus, days after brother – report – The Jerusalem Post
- Terror royalty: Nasrallah's son-in-law killed in airstrike on Damascus, days after brother - report The Jerusalem Post
- IRGC consultant dies from injuries in alleged Israel strike on Damascus this week -- Iranian media The Times of Israel
- Nasrallah's Son-in-law Killed In Israeli Raid In Damascus: NGO Barron's
- Nasrallah's son-in-law killed in Damascus airstrike, report says Ynetnews
- Israel strike on Syria capital kills three, war monitor says VOA Asia
Trump ‘resorted to crimes’ to overturn 2020 election, prosecutors say
Israeli strikes kill six in central Beirut as blasts heard across Lebanon’s capital
Strike on medical centre is the second attack on the centre of Lebanon’s capital this week and comes after the IDF suffered their deadliest day against Hezbollah since 8 October
Israeli strikes on a central Beirut medical centre have killed at least six people, after Israel’s military suffered its deadliest day on the Lebanese front in a year of clashes with Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Residents in Beirut heard a missile flying above the city before hearing the sound of the explosion. Videos showed the floor of an apartment building burning. Residents living in nearby areas began to flee, driving away quickly in scooters and cars.
Continue reading...The long-feared Middle East war is here. This is how Israel could now hit back at Iran – The Conversation
- The long-feared Middle East war is here. This is how Israel could now hit back at Iran The Conversation
- Iran Exposed to Israeli Counterattack After Blows Against Its Allies The Wall Street Journal
- Do Israel and Iran really want to go to war? – podcast The Guardian
- A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran The New York Times
- The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding The Economist
Iran’s Khamenei warned Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed by Israel – The Times of Israel
- Iran’s Khamenei warned Nasrallah to flee Lebanon days before he was killed by Israel The Times of Israel
- Fear, jubilation, jokes: Iranians react after missile attack on Israel Al Jazeera English
- What will Nasrallah’s death mean for the Middle East? Brookings Institution
- After the decapitation of Hizbullah, Iran could race for a nuclear bomb The Economist
- Is Iran's 'axis of resistance' collapsing under Israeli attacks? NBC News
Melania Trump’s abortion views baffle both sides: ‘Hard to follow the logic’
In her memoir, former first lady has voiced support for the procedure, the right to which was overturned by a court of her husband’s justices
The revelation on Wednesday evening that Melania Trump’s forthcoming memoir includes a full-throated defense of abortion rights, an issue her husband Donald Trump has repeatedly flip-flopped on during his presidential campaign, left people on both sides of the issue less than impressed.
“Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body,” Melania Trump wrote in her memoir. “I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.”
Continue reading...Bird flu outbreak kills dozens of tigers in Vietnam zoos
The H5N1 virus killed 47 tigers, three lions and a panther at the My Quynh safari park and the Vuon Xoai zoo, according to state media
Forty-seven tigers, three lions and a panther have died in zoos in south Vietnam due to the H5N1 bird flu virus, state media reported.
The deaths occurred in August and September at the private My Quynh safari park in Long An province and the Vuon Xoai zoo in Dong Nai, near the capital Ho Chi Minh City, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported on Wednesday.
Continue reading...Mexican soldiers kill six after opening fire on truck carrying migrants
South America witnesses a ‘ring of fire’, the final solar eclipse of 2024
Nibi the beaver sees dam of unwavering support as rescuers try to stop her release into wild
Massachusetts court to decide whether internet-famous ‘diva’ beaver will stay with rescuers or be released into wild
Whether a two-year-old beaver named Nibi gets to stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild as winter approaches in Massachusetts has ended up in court – and caused such an uproar that even the governor has weighed in.
“To literally see people from around the world come together to protect this beaver is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my life,” said Adam Teper, an attorney representing Nibi’s rescuers.
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