Getty Images The bombing reportedly targeted Hezbollah’s leader It is time to stop talking about the Middle East being on the brink of a much more serious war. After the devastating Israeli attack on what it said was the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut it feels as if they’re tumbling over it. It was a huge … Read more
BBC A nature reserve in the Philippines, which has been lauded by top climate activists and film stars, has come under a concerted disinformation attack on social media as it fights to continue its work, a BBC investigation has found. A network of nearly 100 fake Facebook accounts and pages were found to be spreading … Read more
Getty Images The ICMP’s main mission is to identify and bury victims of wars and natural disasters across the world How do you tell a family who lost someone to genocide that they may have buried the wrong body? That is the extremely delicate challenge facing missing persons organisations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are … Read more
A former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contractor was indicted Friday for acting as an illegal agent for the Iranian government, the Department of Justice said. According to a DOJ release, from at least December 2017 through June 2024, 42-year-old Abouzar Rahmati allegedly met with Iranian government officials and acted on their behalf. Rahmati, a naturalized … Read more
Georgia McGinty Georgia and John McGinty were seriously injured in an Uber crash in 2022 A couple who were left with life-changing injuries after their Uber crashed have been told they cannot sue the company because of the terms they accepted when using the app. Georgia and John McGinty, from New Jersey, in the US, … Read more
Getty Images Local elections are being held in Indian-administered Kashmir after a decade Nestled in the mountains of Indian-administered Kashmir, Shopian – once a hotbed of militancy – sees a steady stream of voters entering a polling booth. The former state of Jammu and Kashmir – now divided into two federally administered territories – is … Read more
Getty Images Mothers of emperor penguin chicks leave them for weeks to hunt for food In May a huge iceberg broke off from an Antarctic ice shelf, drifted, and came to a stop – right in front of “maybe the world’s unluckiest” penguins. Like a door shutting, the iceberg’s huge walls sealed off the Halley … Read more
JOE KLAMAR/AFP Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickl has set his sights on becoming Austria’s next chancellor Austrians vote on Sunday in a general election that could see the far-right opposition Freedom Party (FPÖ) top the polls for the first time. Five years ago, the party crashed out of a coalition government with the conservative People’s … Read more
Massive stimulus from central banks in the U.S., China and elsewhere is driving bubble-like stock returns and could head off a global recession, according to Bank of America. “It’s the bubble dream,” BofA chief investment strategist Michael Hartnett wrote in his weekly “Flow Show” breakdown of where investors are putting their money. “Fed slashing, oil … Read more
Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in another lawsuit filed in New York. The 12th and latest accuser alleges that after she became pregnant, she was harassed by one his associates to have an abortion and later miscarried. Mr Combs was arrested last week and is … Read more