RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Egypt is threatening to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if Israeli troops are sent into the densely populated Gaza border town of Rafah, and says fighting there could force the closure of the territory’s main aid supply route, two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat said Sunday. The threat to … Read more
Taylor Swift’s lawyers are threatening legal action against a college student who has spent years tracking her private plane and documenting the flights on the internet. On Tuesday, ET learned that the singer-songwriter’s legal team is considering suing Jack Sweeney, a junior at the University of Central Florida, who has spent the last several years sharing … Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s easy to forget that a river runs through the heart of Los Angeles. Normally flowing at a crawl, much of it through nondescript concrete channels, the Los Angeles River picks up speed during the rainy season. By Monday, fed by a slow-moving atmospheric river dumping historic amounts of rain, the … Read more
January 19, 2024 at 2:00 a.m. EST Carbon-rich peatlands in Kalimantan, Indonesia, have been cleared by the government to cultivate crops. (Video: Muhammad Fadli/The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BENTUK JAYA, Indonesia — Indonesia has been clearing tens of thousands of acres of densely vegetated peatland for farming, releasing massive … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A volcano erupted in southwestern Iceland on Sunday after a series of earthquakes in the early morning, the country’s meteorological office said — threatening the nearby coastal town of Grindavik with streams of slow-moving lava. The eruption began around 8 a.m. local time on Iceland’s southern peninsula, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BEIRUT — After a week that included a suspected Israeli assassination in Beirut and a U.S. airstrike in central Baghdad — sparking fears of a wider regional war — many had been apprehensive about Hasan Nasrallah’s speech on Friday. But the leader of Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese … Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh’s opposition leader in 2007, when hundreds of troops raided her home and took her to a court in the capital of Dhaka, where she was arrested on extortion charges. Hasina, who had served as premier in 1996-2001, slammed the charges as a conspiracy to keep her … Read more
Jimmy Kimmel and Aaron Rodgers are beefing … and it’s all over Jeffrey Epstein’s soon-to-be unmasked list of associates. The late-night TV talk show host is now threatening the New York Jets quarterback with legal action after Aaron suggested on live TV, Jimmy might be one of Epstein’s associates. Jimmy just fired back on social … Read more
(Reuters) – An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the Mediterranean Sea could be closed if the United States and its allies continued to commit “crimes” in Gaza, Iranian media reported on Saturday, without explaining how that would happen. Iran backs Hamas against Israel and it accuses the United States of backing what it calls Israeli … Read more
BRUSSELS — The European Union on Wednesday relented and granted Hungary access to billions of euros in frozen funds just as Prime Minister Viktor Orban appeared ready to defy his EU partners and veto the opening of membership talks and vital financial aid for Ukraine. A year ago, the European Union’s executive branch blocked substantial … Read more