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Hurricane Beryl makes landfall on Yucatan Peninsula as Category 2 storm
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl made landfall northeast of the resort town of Tulum on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm early Friday. Beryl was packing maximum sustained winds of 110 [Read More…]
Keir Starmer becomes UK PM as conservatives suffer record defeat in huge Labour landslide
Britain’s Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a victory rally at the Tate Modern in London early on July 5, 2024. — Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A change election [Read More…]
Polls open in Iran run-off presidential election
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Polls opened Friday in Iran for the run-off presidential election as none of the four candidates won more than 50% of the votes in the first round on June 28. Lawmaker [Read More…]
What it’s like living next to Wimbledon, host of the world’s most famous tennis tournament
Tennis ball decorations are seen on plant pots outside of a shop in Wimbledon village during day six of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 8, 2023 [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Hezbollah fires 200 rockets toward Israel
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are pictured on June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
Hurricane Beryl slams Carriacou Island as a major Category 4 storm
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl regained its Category 4 status as it slammed into Carriacou Island with maximum sustained winds of 150 mph. Beryl made landfall in Carriacou at 11:10 a.m. ET as [Read More…]
40 people injured after Air Europa flight experiences heavy turbulence, diverted to Brazil: Airport
@Natalia_gimeno (SAO GONCALO DO AMARANTE, Brazil) — Forty people were injured after an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay experienced strong turbulence and was diverted to Brazil, officials said. Flight UX045 experienced “heavy” turbulence [Read More…]
Record warm ocean temperatures allowed Hurricane Beryl to become the earliest Category 4 Atlantic storm
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ST GEORGE’S, Grenada) — Warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures have allowed for the earliest-ever Category 4 hurricane on record to barrel through the Atlantic Basin, records show. Hurricane Beryl was a Category 4 storm [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Hostage speaks first time since release
Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are pictured on June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
Far-right gains in French elections, raising questions about future support for Ukraine
France’s President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with supporters after voting in the first round of parliamentary elections outside a polling station in Le Touquet, northern France, on June 30, 2024. — Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
North Korea tests two missiles, one reportedly may have fallen on land
A man walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul on July 1, 2024. — Jung Yeon-je/AFP via Getty [Read More…]
Hurricane Beryl approaches Caribbean’s Windward Islands as Category 3 storm
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl was on Monday moving westward south of Barbados, approaching the nearby Windward Islands as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. The storm was [Read More…]
At least 30 dead, more than 100 injured after multiple suicide bombings in Nigeria: Sources
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — At least 30 people are dead and more than 100 were left injured after multiple suicide bombings were carried out at various locations in Nigeria over the weekend, sources said [Read More…]
Fueling Wimbledon: What it’s like to feed half-a-million people at the world’s most renowned tennis event
Spectators queue for a Strawberries and Cream vendor during day one of The Championships Wimbledon 2023 at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 3, 2023 in London. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images, FILE) (LONDON) [Read More…]
Several US military bases in Europe put on heightened state of alert, US officials say
Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Several U.S. military bases across Europe are now operating under a heightened state of alert, ABC News has confirmed. The alert level of Force Protection Condition (FPCON) [Read More…]
Hurricane Beryl track and forecast: Category 4 storm barrels toward Barbados
ABC News (BRIDGETOWN, Barbados) — Hurricane Beryl picked up power and speed on Sunday as it churned in the Caribbean and was upgraded to a major Category 4 storm, the first hurricane on record to [Read More…]
Mexico City residents, faced with water crisis, resort to drastic measures
ABC News (MEXICO CITY) — Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world, yet it is running out of water. It’s a slow-motion disaster decades in the making, caused by a litany [Read More…]
Dozens of sick, injured children medically evacuated from Gaza
Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — Dozens of sick and injured children have been evacuated from Gaza to seek medical treatment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Israel’s Coordination of Government Activities [Read More…]
Pentagon and USAID watchdogs launch reviews of US pier and humanitarian aid flow into Gaza
Palestinians are climbing onto trucks to grab aid that is being delivered into Gaza through a U.S.-built pier, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from central Gaza [Read More…]
US sends USS Wasp assault ship and Marines to eastern Mediterranean
Getty Images – STOCK (EUROPE) — The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and the Marines aboard are being sent to the eastern Mediterranean to serve as a deterrent and provide the U.S. military [Read More…]