13 h. ago Rescuers recover bodies from Karachi mall after devastating fire

When a Mall Became a Furnace: The Night Karachi Lost Part of Itself There are images that clamp onto the mind: a sky bruised orange, shop signs sagging like wounded teeth, a rain of molten metal pattering onto the street. That was Karachi on Saturday night — the historic heart of this vast, humming city […]

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6 d. ago Appeal lodged following judge’s dismissal of Kneecap criminal case

A Flag, A Gig and a High Court Drama: When Music, Symbolism and the Law Collide It began, as many cultural flashpoints do, in a darkened room full of bodies and bass. Fans crammed into the O2 Forum in Kentish Town in November 2024, mouths parted at the thunder of a Northern Irish rap group’s […]

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1 week ago Australia declares national disaster as devastating bushfires rage nationwide

When the Sky Turned Copper: Fires, Heat and the New Normal in Victoria The horizon above Longwood looked like a painting scorched at the edges — a low, seething rim of smoke blotting out the late-afternoon sun and turning the whole world the color of old copper. Embers skittered across paddocks, tumbling like angry sparks […]

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4 w. ago Child among three killed in devastating Russian strike on Ukraine

After the Strike: A Cold, Blinking Country and the Very Human Cost of Escalation The morning after, the town smelled of smoke and diesel and something older—an exhausted grief that settles in the marrow when lives are interrupted suddenly and violently. In Kyiv, in Khmelnytsky, in regions where the lights sputtered and went out, people […]

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