Hours before a total eclipse of the sun, the Texas Eclipse festival in Burnet has been cancelled due to severe weather, the event’s organizers announced Monday. The rare celestial event was billed as the pièce de résistance of the five-day festival, which also featured space exhibits, high-profile guest speakers and performances by a slew of … Read more
CAIRO — For nearly a month, Shaima Abu Khater didn’t know what had happened to her newborn daughter. By the time Kinda arrived on Oct. 30 — more than a month before her due date — Abu Khater’s home in northern Gaza had been destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, she said. Israel was signaling it … Read more
December 21, 2023 10:56 AM EST PRAGUE — Czech police say a shooting in downtown Prague has killed an unspecified number of people and wounded dozens of others. Police gave no details about the victims or the circumstances of Thursday’s gunfire in the Czech Republic’s capital. Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan told Czech public television … Read more
STOCKHOLM — A volcanic eruption started Monday night on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula, turning the sky orange and prompting the civil defense to be put on high alert. The eruption appears to have occurred about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles) from the town of Grindavík, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. Webcam video from the scene appears to … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza ‘s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Israel intensified its military campaign in parts of northern Gaza on Saturday, deploying infantry and armored corps units to densely packed areas of Gaza City, as well as to nearby Jabalya, where strikes on two U.N. schools killed and injured scores of people who were … Read more
The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after it received a written threat ByThe Associated Press October 14, 2023, 8:08 AM Staff wait after the evacuation of the Louvre museum, in Paris, Saturday Oct. 14, 2023. The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment The State Division has ordered the evacuation of non-emergency U.S. authorities personnel and diplomatic members of the family from its embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and suggested all Americans to depart the island as quickly as attainable amid rising gang violence. The announcement of an “ordered departure” got here late Thursday, after … Read more
4 individuals have died and three others are lacking after landslides hit a county in China’s southwestern Sichuan province, main authorities to evacuate greater than 900 individuals On this picture launched by China’s Xinhua Information Company, rescuers work at a landslide website in Miansi Township of Wenchuan County in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province, Tuesday, June … Read more