1,000-pound bomb uncovered at Florida airport prompts half-mile evacuation, cops say

The discovery of a large World War II-era bomb buried at a Florida regional airport prompted an evacuation that extended half a half in every direction, according to investigators. A construction company is credited with finding the 1,000-pound explosive, as crews were digging along Helicopter Drive near Brooksville-Tampa Bay Regional Airport, the Hernando County Sheriff’s … Read more

Live updates | Israel’s evacuation orders cover 2/3 of the Gaza Strip, leaving Palestinians crammed

Israel’s evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip now cover two-thirds of the territory, or 246 square kilometers (95 square miles), United Nations humanitarian monitors said Tuesday. More than half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people is now crammed into the town of Rafah on the border with Egypt and surrounding areas, the U.N. Office … Read more

Japan’s Kishida visits quake-hit region as concerns rise about diseases in evacuation centers

TOKYO — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited Sunday the country’s north-central region of Noto for the first time since the deadly Jan. 1 earthquakes to alleviate growing concern about slow relief work and the spread of diseases in evacuation centers. The magnitude 7.6 earthquake left 220 dead and 26 others still missing while injuring … Read more

Violence rattles Ecuador as a nightclub arson kills 2 and a bomb scare sparks an evacuation

QUITO, Ecuador — A bomb threat sent an anti-explosives unit scrambling into a bustling area of Ecuador’s tense capital Thursday while authorities in an eastern city reported a nightclub arson killed two people as the South American country staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug gangs. Police in the capital, Quito, said they … Read more

A fire in a hospital near Rome kills at least 4 and forces the evacuation of facility and patients

A fire has broken out in a hospital on Rome’s outskirts, killing at least four people ByThe Associated Press December 9, 2023, 2:58 AM Italian Firefighters spray water on a building of the San Giovanni Evangelista Hospital after a fire broke out causing the death of four people in Tivoli, Italy, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. … Read more

Israel widens evacuation orders as it shifts its offensive to southern Gaza amid heavy bombardments

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israel’s military on Sunday ordered more areas in and around Gaza’s second-largest city of Khan Younis to evacuate, as it shifted its offensive to the southern half of the territory where it says many Hamas leaders are hiding. Heavy bombardments were reported overnight and into Sunday in the area of … 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

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

How Tori Spelling and Her 5 Kids Are Coping Amid Rental Home Evacuation and Dean McDermott Split

Tori Spelling is working to give her five children some much-needed stability after a recent evacuation from their rental home and split from her husband, Dean McDermott. A source tells ET that Spelling, 50, is “trying to find her footing and doing her best to take care of her kids” during this difficult time. It’s been … Read more

U.N. warns Israel’s Gaza evacuation could breach international law

Comment on this storyComment JERUSALEM — Israel’s siege of Gaza and call for an evacuation of more than 1.1 million civilians ahead of an expected ground invasion could amount to the forcible transfer of civilians — a breach of international law — the U.N. human rights office said Tuesday. The pronouncement came as President Biden … Read more