Iceland volcanic eruption: Lava flows south after 4th eruption since December

Reuters 03/18/2024

Lava flows from a volcano in southwest Iceland that had lit up the night sky on Saturday slowed on Sunday while man-made barriers appeared to be successful in steering the lava away from infrastructure including a nearby…

Suspected Houthi attack: Missile hits ship in Red Sea, crew reportedly safe

Associated Press 03/15/2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a ship in the Red Sea early Friday, causing damage to the vessel, authorities said. The attack off the port city of Hodeida comes…

Covid lowered life expectancy by 1.6 years worldwide — study

Agence France Presse 03/12/2024

COVID-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline than previously thought, a major study said Tuesday. This marked a…

Hiroshima grapples with ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscars success

Agence France Presse 03/12/2024

“Oppenheimer” had a glittering night at the Oscars but in Hiroshima, devastated by the first nuclear bomb in 1945, the film about the weapon’s creator is harder to stomach. “Is this really a movie that people in…

Ramadan brings no relief as Israel-Hamas war rages in Gaza

Agence France Presse 03/12/2024

The first day of Ramadan on Monday arrived like others for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza: stalked by famine and disease, shivering in tents and threatened by bombs more than five months into fighting between Israel and Hamas…

Palestinians prepare for Ramadan in the shadow of Gaza war

Reuters 03/11/2024

JERUSALEM/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza — Palestinians prepared for Ramadan in a sombre mood with heightened security measures by Israeli police and the spectre of war and hunger in Gaza overshadowing the normally festive Muslim holy month as talks to…

Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in feisty State of the Union speech

Reuters 03/08/2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden took on Donald Trump in a fiery speech to Congress on Thursday, accusing his election rival of threatening U.S. democracy and kowtowing to Russia, as he laid out his case for four…

Missing Flight MH370: Families cannot shake off their grief without answers

Associated Press 03/08/2024

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies. But part of her is frozen in time, still in denial over…

Japan’s new female ‘role models’ seek to empower other women

Reuters 03/08/2024

TOKYO —  Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike knows how important networking and mentorship are to building a career, so she’s making sure her administration offers women these opportunities. Koike is one of the very few women who hold…

New NASA astronauts graduate, eying Moon — and Mars

Agence France Presse 03/06/2024

After two years of rigorous training, ten Americans officially became astronauts on Tuesday, and are now eligible for planned NASA missions to the International Space Station, the Moon, and — if all goes well — to Mars.…

Gaza: Starving children should be ‘an alarm like no other’, says UN

Agence France Presse 03/06/2024

The United Nations on Tuesday called on the international community to “flood” Gaza with aid amid reports that children are dying of starvation in the war-torn territory. “With children starting … to die from starvation, that should…

Israel airstrike kills 5-month-old twins in Rafah

Associated Press 03/04/2024

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl.…

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