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UK team performs surgery to fix rhino’s broken leg, an operation they say is world’s 1st
Knowsley Safari Park (LONDON) — A team of over ten vets – including specialist surgeons, anaesthetists, and animal keepers – have on Thursday performed what they described as a ground-breaking world-first surgery on a Rhino [Read More…]

Israel launches strikes on Hezbollah in wake of device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday’s pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News) (LONDON) — Israel launched a series of strikes [Read More…]

Threat of Israel-Hezbollah war looms after Lebanon device explosions
People attending a funeral for victims of Tuesday’s pager attacks in Lebanon react after an explosion in a store, in southern Beirut, Sept. 18, 2024. (ABC News) (LONDON) — The threat of a wider war [Read More…]

Why Brazilian officials want to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest
ABC News (NEW YORK) — A government plan to pave a highway in the Amazon rainforest is prompting concerns from environmentalists who say the development will cause more wildfires in the region. But for those [Read More…]

20 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 20 more people were killed and 450 injured [Read More…]

14 more dead, 450 injured as new round of explosions rocks Lebanon: Health officials
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 14 more people were killed and 450 injured [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel moves troops to Lebanon border after pager attack
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as tension with Hezbollah persists at the Israel-Lebanon border. Here’s how [Read More…]

Kate Middleton returns to work with meeting at Windsor Castle
Catherine, Princess of Wales attends day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London. (Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE) (LONDON) — [Read More…]

What we know about the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
Ambulances are being dispatched to the area in Beirut, Lebanon while security forces take precautions after at least eight people, including a child, were killed in a mass explosion of wireless communication devices known as [Read More…]

Israel behind pager explosions, sources say, as Hezbollah vows ‘reckoning’
Ambulances rush wounded people to a hospital in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on September 17, 2024. (MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Israel was behind the deadly explosion of pagers across Lebanon [Read More…]

Nine dead, thousands injured after pagers explode across Lebanon: Health officials
KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least nine people are dead and over 2,750 people were injured after pager devices owned by a large number of workers in various Hezbollah units and institutions exploded on Tuesday, [Read More…]

US expresses ‘grave’ concern as fighting in Sudan’s El Fasher escalates amid civil war
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — The U.S. said it is “gravely concerned” following a “large-scale escalation” of fighting in El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, amid a civil war that has been raging in [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken to travel to Egypt for fresh talks
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as tension with Hezbollah persists at the Israel-Lebanon border. Here’s how [Read More…]

Israeli defense officials at odds with Netanyahu over Hamas, Hezbollah cease-fire conditions
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024. (OHAD ZWIGENBERG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (TEL AVIV, Israel) — Officials in Israel’s defense establishment are now strenuously contradicting Israeli [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Missile fired from Yemen lands in Israel
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to retaliate against the Houthi movement after a missile fired from Yemen fell in central Israel on Sunday [Read More…]

Russia downs 30 ‘Ukrainian drones’ in overnight attack, defense ministry says
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Defense Ministry said Sunday it defeated a fresh wave of Ukrainian drone attacks over the west of the country. The ministry wrote on its official Telegram channel that 29 “Ukrainian [Read More…]

Animal rights group calls for release of Argentina’s last captive orca
FILE photo — Kevin Schafer/Getty Images (LONDON) — Animal rights activists are calling for the release of an orca who has been living in Argentina’s largest aquarium for over 30 years. The orca named Kshamenk, [Read More…]

US pushes to add two permanent UN Security Council seats for African nations
steve007/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Biden administration has announced plans to expand the influential United Nations Security Council by adding two permanent seats for African nations — an initiative that will likely face an [Read More…]

Two men charged in Banksy artwork theft from London gallery, police say
A Banksy painting, Girl With Balloon, on display at the Grove Gallery in London after it was stolen, then recovered and returned to the gallery. — (Photo by James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images) (LONDON) [Read More…]

A Palestinian girl suffered burns to over 60% of her body: This is her monthslong journey out of a war zone
Sara Bsaiso (left) and her sister Seham Besaiso in Gaza before Sara’s injury. — Courtesy of Seham Besaiso (NEW YORK) — If someone asked Sara Bsaiso what her dream was one year ago, it would [Read More…]