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Israel-Gaza live updates: State Department reissues travel alert for Lebanon
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…]
Radioactive material inserted into Rhino horns in anti-poaching project
A sedated rhinoceros lies unconscious as professor James Larkin from the University of the Witwatersrand carefully implants dosed and calculated radioisotopes into it’s horns in Mokopane on June 25, 2024. (Emmanuel Croset/AFP via Getty Images) [Read More…]
Assange lands in Australia after pleading guilty in US court
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange hugs his wife, Stella Assange, after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024. (William West/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Julian Assange arrived on Wednesday in his [Read More…]
American reporter Evan Gershkovich arrives in Russian court for secret espionage trial
U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich, accused of espionage, looks out from inside a glass defendants’ cage prior to a hearing in Yekaterinburg’s Sverdlovsk Regional Court on June 26, 2024. (NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — [Read More…]
US military delivers supplies to Gaza via pier, but there’s no one to distribute them
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. officials are defending President Joe Biden’s decision to build a $230 million temporary pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid as a better-than-nothing solution to the worsening crisis there, even [Read More…]
American woman goes missing while attending yoga retreat in the Bahamas
Royal Bahamas Police Force (NEW YORK) — An American who traveled to the Bahamas to attend a yoga retreat has been missing for nearly a week, her family and police said. Taylor Casey, 41, of [Read More…]
Julian Assange pleads guilty at hearing in the Northern Mariana Islands
An airplane (C) that carried Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is pictured on the tarmac at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on June 25, 2024. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Julian Assange pleaded [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: 14 killed in IDF strikes on two Gaza schools, Gaza officials say
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…]
Multiple deaths reported as police clash with anti-tax protesters in Kenya
Protesters react after being pushed by Kenya Police officers while demonstrating during a nationwide strike to protest against tax hikes and the Finance Bill 2024 in downtown Nairobi, on June 25, 2024. (Luis Tato/AFP via [Read More…]
Plane believed to be carrying Assange lands in Thailand
An airplane (C) that carried Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is pictured on the tarmac at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok on June 25, 2024. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — A plane believed [Read More…]
South Sudan’s epic effort to protect the world’s largest mammal migration
African Parks (NEW YORK) — South Sudan is trying to protect the largest land mammal migration in history by partnering with the nonprofit organization African Parks to safeguard the migratory species that rely on the [Read More…]
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange expected to plead guilty, avoid further prison time as part of deal with US
Supporters of Julian Assange demonstrate outside the Royal Courts of Justice as the High Court is set to deliver a ruling whether Assange can appeal against the US’s extradition order in London, United Kingdom on [Read More…]
2 years after pushing back Russia, Kharkiv faces barrage of attacks
ABC (UKRAINE) — It can be difficult to sleep in Kharkiv. Ukraine’s second-largest city is now under continuous attack, its residents waking many nights to the sounds of huge blasts. Less than 20 miles from [Read More…]
Prince William turns 42: See a new pic taken by Kate Middleton
Chris Jackson/Getty Images (LONDON) — Prince William is jumping right into his 42nd birthday. William’s wife Princess Kate celebrated his birthday on June 21 by sharing a photo of the future king jumping in the [Read More…]
Ryan Watson, American tourist charged with bringing ammo to Turks and Caicos, set to be sentenced
Ryan and Valerie Watson talk to “Good Morning America,” June 20, 2024. — ABC News (PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands) — Ryan Watson, an American charged with bringing ammunition to Turks and Caicos, and who [Read More…]
Iberian lynx rebounds from ‘endangered’ status
Manuel ROMARIS/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Iberian Lynx has rebounded from “endangered” to “vulnerable,” a new study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) announced on Thursday. The population of the rare wild [Read More…]
At least 600 Egyptians die in hajj pilgrimage: Source
Getty Images – STOCK (EGYPT) — Around 600 Egyptians have died during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca amid scorching heat, a security source said, as authorities formed a crisis unit on Thursday to probe [Read More…]
Israel-Gaza live updates: Netanyahu video was ‘perplexing,’ ‘disappointing,’ US says
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…]
Netanyahu and White House continue public disagreement over claim US withholding weapons amid Israel’s war with Hamas
Kena Betancur/Getty Images (ISRAEL) — The public war of words between Israel and the U.S. continued Thursday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responding pointedly to the White House after the Biden administration again denied his [Read More…]
Putin deepens ties with Vietnam amid increasing Russian isolation over Ukraine
Contributor/Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Fresh off the heels of his closely-watched visit to North Korea, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Vietnamese President To Lam in Hanoi to reaffirm the Kremlin’s ties to its [Read More…]