A wind change increased flames during a planned ignition on the Ross Moore Lake wildfire in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last year — the hottest on record — smashed a series of climate records and gave new meaning to the phrase “off the charts,” … Read more
NABLUS, West Bank — The signs of economic distress are everywhere in Nablus, a once-bustling hub of Palestinian commerce now paralyzed by Israel’s tightening grip on life and work in the West Bank. School-age children sell candy for change and the upscale hotels and restaurants are closed. Jobless men smoke cigarettes on street corners, while … Read more
JERUSALEM — On Saturday, the United States airdropped 38,000 meals into Gaza — a territory controlled not by a hostile foreign power but by one of its closest allies. The remarkable scenes of American aid bundles floating down to starving Palestinians was the starkest illustration yet of the rift that has grown between the Biden … Read more
San Miguel Beermen Bennie Boatwright leads his team to the PBA semifinals Game 2 win. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net Talks of an iteration of San Miguel Beer’s dreaded quintet from not so long ago surfaced anew after the Beermen moved on the doorstep of the PBA Commissioner’s Cup Finals by turning the tables on Barangay Ginebra for … Read more
I believe that there are five big, interrelated influences that are driving the changing world order and that they tend to evolve in big cycles. They are: how well the debt/money/economic system works, how well the internal order (system) works within countries to influence how well people within them work together,how well the world order (system) … Read more
For decades, the US has been the world’s main military superpower. But the US faces formidable new threats, and rising global conflict. In the wake of the Ukraine war, Russia and China have been growing closer. For decades, the military might of the US was unchallenged. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, … Read more
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The next film from director Alex Garland looks like quite the action-packed dystopia. A24 just released the first trailer for Civil War, which is set in a near-future version of the US that is, as you can probably guess, in the midst of a violent civil war, with forces from Texas and California making their … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Hundreds of years ago, when the Mexica established themselves in what would become the capital of the Aztec Empire, they encountered an alien-looking creature with a permanent grin and a crown of feathery gills. Fascinated, they named it axolotl — water monster — and revered it as … Read more
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Ahmed Rasheed WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A defective drone in Iraq may have helped keep America from being dragged deeper into a widening Middle East conflict. The drone, which was launched at the Erbil air base by an Iranian-backed militia before sunrise on Oct. 26, penetrated U.S. air defenses and … Read more
The United Nation’s health agencies called for more aid to be allowed into Gaza in a report released Tuesday morning, warning that the lack of medical supplies, food and fuel in the region will only cause the region’s medical burden to grow increasingly dire. One-third of hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now non-functional at … Read more