Blocking US medical visas for Gaza kids “will be devastating”
Tareq Hailat talks about the US decision to halt visas for Palestinians from Gaza, including children in need of medical
Polls close in Bolivia as 20 years of leftist rule expected to end
Right-wing candidates are the frontrunners in elections marked by economic crisis and division in the socialist ranks.
Riot police clash with protesters in Serbia
Anti-government protests in Serbia turned violent as riot police clashed with demonstrators in several cities, including
Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
Hollywood stuntman set on fire for Pink Floyd cover dies aged 88
Ronnie Rondell Jr's decades-long career saw him appear in films and TV including Baywatch, Spartacus and The Matrix Reloaded.
Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?
A growing focus on hunger in Gaza in the global media has led some Israeli outlets to report on it for the first time
Images of Palestinian children in Gaza, emaciated by hunger under the blockade imposed by Israel, and of families grieving the more than 61,000 people killed in the territory have stirred outrage among foreign governments and much of the global public. Inside Israel, however, the reaction has been markedly different.
In a poll conducted in late July by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI), more than three-quarters of Jewish Israelis – 79% – said they were either “not very troubled” or “not troubled at all” by reports of famine and suffering among Gaza’s Palestinian population.
Continue reading...Israelis protest to end Gaza war as anger over fate of captives boils over
Israeli police make dozens of arrests, use water cannons on protesters who gathered for the nationwide demonstration.
Thousands of firefighters battle blazes in Spain and Portugal – Euronews.com
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Huge rally in New York demands end to Gaza starvation
Thousands rallied in New York for a ‘Mass March for Humanity’ demanding an end to Israel’s imposed starvation of Gaza an
Flash flooding kills hundreds in northern Pakistan
More than 300 people have died in Pakistan after days of relentless monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides.
How much aid actually reaches Gaza?
Most aid to Gaza exists only on paper. Nine in ten UN trucks never reach the starving Palestinians.
‘Stunning survival story’: Police rescue California man trapped behind waterfall for two days
Ryan Wardwell was rappelling down Seven Teacups falls when ‘extreme hydraulics’ trapped him behind a cascade
A California man who recently became trapped behind a waterfall for two days while climbing was dramatically rescued by police utilizing a helicopter.
Ryan Wardwell, 46, of Long Beach, went to waterfalls known as the Seven Teacups on 10 August with plans to rappel down, the sheriff’s office of Tulare country said in a social media post. But the “extreme hydraulics” of the waterfalls pushed Wardwell off his rappelling lines and trapped him behind a cascade of the Kern river, according to the sheriff’s office.
Continue reading...More than 200 missing in flood-hit district in Pakistan, official says
Hundreds are reported missing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as a result of devastating floods.
More than 200 missing in flood-hit district in Pakistan, official says
Hundreds are reported missing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province as a result of devastating floods.
Watch: Plane makes emergency landing on Australian golf course
Video shows the aircraft flying over the golf course before crash landing, as the pilot and passenger escaped without major injuries.
Watch: Plane makes emergency landing on Australian golf course
Video shows the aircraft flying over the golf course before crash landing, as the pilot and passenger escaped without major injuries.
Watch: Plane makes emergency landing on Australian golf course
Video shows the aircraft flying over the golf course before crash landing, as the pilot and passenger escaped without major injuries.
High-tech drones turn Ukraine’s front line into a kill zone. Medics can’t keep up – The Independent
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- In Ukraine, swarms of Russian drones and missiles are transforming combat The Christian Science Monitor
- The Dawn of Automated Warfare: Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Key to Victory in Ukraine—and Elsewhere Foreign Affairs
- Unmanned ground vehicles ‘really crucial’ in fight against Russia: Ukrainian official Breaking Defense