You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. In planning the D-Day invasion of 1944, which helped turn the tide of the Second World War, Allied forces preparing … Read more
The U.S. military anticipates that a floating pier, to be built off Gaza’s coastline in coming weeks, will enable delivery of 2 million meals daily to Palestinians facing starvation, the Pentagon said Friday, describing its plan to address the worsening humanitarian crisis there without deploying American personnel directly into the war zone. Construction of the … Read more
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza was on its way to the Mediterranean on Sunday, three days after U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to ramp up aid deliveries by sea to the besieged enclave where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been … Read more
Play video content TMZ.com A driver who went over the edge of a pier on the East Coast seemed determined to end his/her life, and perhaps anyone else’s who was in the way … evidenced in this video here. TMZ has obtained footage from Saturday morning that shows the moment an unidentified vehicle barrels through … Read more
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a Cambodian naval base that the United States and some international security analysts say is destined to serve as a strategic outpost for Beijing’s navy. The docking of the two ships, which received little publicity, coincided … Read more
Wild scene at the famous Santa Monica Pier … a man claiming to be armed with a bomb climbed the iconic Ferris wheel before ultimately being taken into custody. The crazy scene played out Monday afternoon at the tourist attraction … with cops saying it all started when the guy told folks he had a … Read more