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Smoke rises near a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in the area of Tel al-Sultan in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 30, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON) — Around 260 air balloons carrying bags of manure and trash have been spotted across South Korea on Wednesday after they were sent over the border from North [Read More…]

DuKai photographer/Getty Images (LONDON) — A person has died after being sucked up into the running turbine engine of a plane at Amsterdam’s international airport, officials said. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines made the announcement on [Read More…]

Another volcanic eruption is seen from a helicopter flight Landhelgisgasla Islands for the fifth time since December on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland on May 29, 2024. (Almannavarnadeild/Anadolu via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — [Read More…]

Khames Alrefi/ Getty Images (RAFAH, GAZA) — World Central Kitchen (WCK) said it has paused its operations in Rafah due to “ongoing attacks” by Israeli forces as aid organizations warned the humanitarian response is on [Read More…]

Niharika Kulkarni/ Getty Images (NEW DELHI, INDIA) — One of the hottest countries on Earth has recorded its highest temperature ever. India recorded a temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius — or about 126 degrees Fahrenheit [Read More…]

A mural of Hind Rajab, the 6-year-old Palestinian girl who was killed in Gaza, along with several family members and paramedics, by artist Emmalene Blake in Dublin, May 15, 2024. (Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty [Read More…]

Voters queue outside a polling station in Juju Valley, Polokwane, on May 29, 2024, during South Africa’s general election. (Paul Botes/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON and PRETORIA, South Africa) — Millions of South Africans are [Read More…]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Before skywatchers begin their countdown for the brief planetary alignment expected next month, some astronomical debunking has proved there may be less of a sky show after all. In [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. State Department on Tuesday expressed its “deep concern” over Israeli air strikes Sunday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a tent camp that [Read More…]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by [Read More…]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis is apologizing after reports that he used an offensive term for gay men in a recent closed-door meeting. “Pope Francis is aware of articles [Read More…]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza over the U.S. Army’s temporary Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (JLOTS) system has been paused after rough seas caused parts of the pier [Read More…]

Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force (NEW YORK) — A Virginia man was sentenced to time served and fined $9,000 for bringing ammunition to Turks and Caicos, avoiding a potential 12-year sentence under the [Read More…]

Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — At least 134 people have been killed [Read More…]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by [Read More…]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by [Read More…]

Getty Image – STOCK (UKRAINE) — Russian forces struck a Ukrainian shopping center in Kharkiv on Saturday, leaving four people dead and 38 people wounded according to local officials. Sources in local law enforcement tell [Read More…]

Palestinians look at the rubble of a family house that was hit overnight in Israeli bombardment in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza on May 20, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between [Read More…]

U.S. Central Command via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three U.S. service members have been treated for injuries related to the U.S.-built pier off Gaza known as JLOTS, or the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore capability, according to [Read More…]