Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount Everest says it is crowded and dirty now

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said Saturday that the world’s highest peak is too crowded and dirty, and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected. Kanchha Sherpa, 91, was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander … Read more

Gaza mediators and others warn Israel of disaster if it launches a ground invasion on crowded Rafah

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel’s neighbors and key mediators warned Saturday of disaster and repercussions if its military launches a ground invasion in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, where Israel says remaining Hamas strongholds are located — along with over half the besieged territory’s population. Israeli airstrikes killed at least 44 Palestinians — including more … Read more

How VCs can assess and attract winners in a landscape that’s now crowded with AI startups

Felicis, the 16-year-old Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, has a reputation for investing globally. Indeed, firm founder Aydin Senkut — who spent a handful of years at Google as a product manager in its earlier days — was born in Turkey and talks often of the hustle he sees in founders around the world. Felicis … Read more

Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza, driving up death toll despite evacuation orders

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel pounded targets in crowded southern Gaza on Saturday and ordered more neighborhoods designated for attack to evacuate, driving up the death toll even as the United States and others urged it to do more to protect civilians a day after a truce collapsed. The prospect of further cease-fires in … Read more

Patients and staff leave Gaza’s biggest hospital, and dozens are killed at a crowded refugee camp

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Hundreds of patients, medical staff and people displaced by Israel’s war against Hamas left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday, with one evacuee describing a panicked and chaotic scene as Israeli forces searched and face-scanned men among those leaving and took some away. Israel’s military has been searching Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital … Read more

Dutch election candidates make migration a key campaign issue in the crowded Netherlands

TER APEL, Netherlands — It is a familiar sight in this remote rural town: a migrant in a headscarf and thick winter coat carrying her belongings to the overcrowded reception center as a storm brews over the flat landscape. For many here and across this nation once known as a beacon of tolerance, it is … Read more

Fearing airstrikes and crowded shelters, Palestinians in north Gaza defy Israeli evacuation orders

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip — Mahmoud Shalabi did not evacuate his home in northern Gaza despite the frightful Israeli warnings of a looming, far more brutal assault to come as it presses ahead with its war against the Hamas militant group. The Palestinian aid worker is among hundreds of thousands who have remained. Others … Read more

A minimum of 5 useless and seven wounded in clashes inside crowded Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon

BEIRUT — Preventing raged Sunday in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp close to the southern port metropolis of Sidon, killing no less than 5 individuals and wounding seven, Palestinian officers mentioned. UNRWA, the U.N. company for Palestinian refugees, put the loss of life toll at six, and Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company mentioned two kids … Read more

Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried unravel a mysterious crime in ‘The Crowded Room’ trailer

Tom Holland has saved New York within the Spider-Man collection, teamed up with with Avengers in Avengers: Infinity Conflict, and jumped out of planes in Uncharted. Now, in Apple TV’s psychological thriller The Crowded Room, he faces his largest problem but: himself. Holland performs Danny Sullivan, a younger man arrested after his connection to a … Read more