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Race to save those missing in sunken superyacht off Sicily, but survival ‘improbable’
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters, get ready in Porticello near Palermo, on August 21, 2024 two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images) [Read More…]

Former Russian prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza talks about his confinement, hopes for a post-Putin era
Russian journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza addresses a press conference on August 2, 2024 in Bonn, Germany, one day after being released from Russia as political prisoner in one of the biggest prisoner swaps between [Read More…]

Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest person, dies at age 117
In this image that was posted to social media, Maria Branyas is shown. (@MariaBranyas112/X) (NEW YORK) — A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 [Read More…]

Ukraine launches drone attack on Moscow: Officials
Getty Images – STOCK/omersukrugoksu (MOSCOW) — In what is one of the largest drone attacks since the Russia-Ukraine war began, Moscow officials said they shot down at least 12 drones on Wendesday. The Air Defense [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: 115 projectiles fired from Lebanon into Israel on Tuesday
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

US citizens among Sicily superyacht missing as search continues
Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue operations with helicopters and ships to find missing people after after a yacht sank on Monday due to a storm 20 kilometers [Read More…]

Two Americans among missing passengers from sunken superyacht
Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue operations with helicopters and ships to find missing people after after a yacht sank on Monday due to a storm 20 kilometers [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Bodies of six hostages recovered from Gaza
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Hamas takes responsibility for Tel Aviv attack
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

1 killed, 6 missing as superyacht sinks off Sicilian coast, Italian officials say
A Coast Guard aviator observes from the helicopter the Coast Guard ship Visalli during its usual controls to protect the coastal marine environment, pleasure boating, safety and protection of human life at sea and bathing [Read More…]

WHO records 1,940 health care attacks in Ukraine since war with Russia began
Getty Images – STOCK/omersukrugoksu (KYIV, Ukraine.) — The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday it has confirmed 1,940 attacks on health care in Ukraine since the war with Russia began in February 2022. This is [Read More…]

Ukraine destroys third key bridge, threatening to cut off Russian troops, amid incursion, Russian military bloggers say
A Ukrainian armoured vehicles burns after it was hit by a Russian drone near the Russian border on August 18th 2024, in Sumy Region, Ukraine. Ukrainian forces operating in Russia’s Kursk Region have destroyed another [Read More…]

One killed, six missing as superyacht sinks off Sicilian coast, Italian officials say
A Coast Guard aviator observes from the helicopter the Coast Guard ship Visalli during its usual controls to protect the coastal marine environment, pleasure boating, safety and protection of human life at sea and bathing [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Blinken ‘intensely’ focused on cease-fire progress
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Netanyahu says Israel ‘can’t be flexible’ on some issues
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the U.S. military announced it is moving more forces to the Middle East. The United States and its allies continue to plead for [Read More…]

Russian supply bridges destroyed by Ukraine amid Kursk incursion, Kyiv says
Ukraine’s Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk via Reuters LONDON — The Ukrainian military destroyed a bridge inside Russia that had been critically important for carrying Russian supplies, marking the second such bridge destroyed within days, [Read More…]

Inside Israel’s deadly Jenin raid, 40 hours in May that shook the West Bank refugee camp
Issam Rimawi/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Journalist Amr Manasra says he remembers the moment an iron column saved his life. It was a miracle, he said, when an Israeli sniper’s bullet was met [Read More…]

Alleged Peruvian gang leader arrested by ICE in upstate New York
Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A leader of a Peruvian gang who is wanted for 23 murders in Peru was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Thursday, [Read More…]

Inquiry launched at Belfast Zoo after worker allegedly locked in lion enclosure
Liam McBurney/PA Images via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Belfast City Council says it has launched an investigation at Belfast Zoo in Northern Ireland after a worker allegedly became locked in a lion enclosure earlier [Read More…]

North Korea to partially reopen doors to tourism for 1st time since COVID-19 pandemic
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea is set to partially reopen its doors to tourism later this year after being closed off since January 2020 at the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to [Read More…]