With a fragile ceasefire in place, experts say rebuilding the Gaza Strip could take decades amid vast destruction and uncertainty over funding. UNDP says 81,000 tons of rubble have been cleared, but 83% of Gaza City's buildings were damaged and 40% destroyed, according to UN satellite data. Hady Amr and...
Wildlife photographer Margot Raggett, who has raised £1.2m through her Remembering Wildlife books since 2015, says momentum has slipped, citing repeated US withdrawals from the Paris agreement and UK parties pledging to drop the 2050 net zero goal. Her new volume, Ten Years of Remembering Wildlife, pairs images of animals...
Israel received two bodies from Gaza, transferred via the Red Cross and said by Hamas to be hostages, with identification pending. The delay in returning remains has stoked anger, as last week’s US-brokered ceasefire required all hostages—living and dead—to be released; Hamas says rubble has hindered searches. Israel ordered the...
Amid rising tensions with Venezuela, the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago urged Americans to avoid U.S. government facilities through the holiday weekend, citing a heightened alert and unspecified threats against U.S. citizens. The warning follows U.S. strikes in Caribbean waters targeting suspected drug traffickers that have killed at least...
President Donald Trump said two survivors of a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-carrying submersible in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia for detention and prosecution. The Thursday attack — at least the sixth since early September — killed two others, bringing the toll to at least...
President Donald Trump said two survivors of a U.S. strike on a suspected drug submersible in the Caribbean will be sent to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, for detention and prosecution. The military rescued them after Thursday’s attack, at least the sixth since early September; two others aboard were...
Diego Pavia accounted for three touchdowns as No. 17 Vanderbilt beat No. 10 LSU 31-24 in Nashville, snapping a 10-game skid against the Tigers and securing the Commodores’ first win in the series since 1990. Pavia threw for 160 yards and a score and ran for 86 and two TDs,...
After his father’s death, Antony Easton found a suitcase that revealed his family’s hidden past: Peter Easton was born Peter Hans Rudolf Eisner, born into a Berlin Jewish dynasty behind the Hahn’sche Werke steel empire. Nazi persecution stripped the Eisners of their assets through sales deemed forced, including a 1938...
In Riga, signal-green "patvertne" shelter signs now dot facades as Latvia braces for potential conflict with Russia. After aircraft incursions and drone disruptions in Europe, officials at the Riga Conference called the Baltics the front line; the U.S. ambassador to NATO warned the next war's first shot could be a...
Denmark is grappling with a surge of drone sightings near airports and military bases, with recent incidents at Aalborg and Billund halting scheduled flights. Similar reports have emerged around Copenhagen Airport. A weeklong ban on civilian drone flights precedes an EU summit on October 1. Officials say the flights aim...
