48 h. ago California man arrested in connection with fatal Palisades blaze

A Night of Orange: The Arrest That Reopened a City’s Wound When the hills above the Pacific bowed to flame in early January, Los Angeles woke to an orange dawn the city had never truly known. Streets became rivers of ash. Smoke crawled into living rooms, stained the sails of sailboats tied in marinas, and […]

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60 h. ago Somali Family Builds Memorial for Traditional Leader Killed in US Drone Strike Near Badhan

Boosaaso (PP News Desk) — The family of Omar Abdullahi Abdi, who was killed in a US drone strike on… Sii akhri The post Somali Family Builds Memorial for Traditional Leader Killed in US Drone Strike Near Badhan appeared first on Puntland Post.

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4 d. ago Nottingham student killed in attacks posthumously awarded George Medal

Grace’s Last Walk: A Night of Fear, a Moment of Heroism On a warm June night in 2023, two 19‑year‑olds were walking home from a university night out when the ordinary became unthinkable. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley‑Kumar set off together, the kind of small ritual that stitches student life together: shared laughter, phone torches […]

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5 d. ago US budget standoff masks a broader political, ideological battle

Washington’s Empty Hallways and the Politics of a Shutdown There is a strange hush in the corridors of power: fluorescent lights glow over largely darkened offices, coffee machines gurgle in the distance and the echo of hurried footsteps is replaced by the quieter thrum of worry. The federal government has hit a familiar snag — […]

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6 d. ago Russian strikes hit Ukrainian rail services, killing one and wounding 30

Smoke on the Platform: A Morning in Shostka After the Drones The air in Shostka tasted of metal and diesel the way winter tastes of coal — sharp, persistent, intrusive. At the town railway station, a carriage lay on its side like a fallen animal, its windows blown out, its blue-and-yellow seats singed. Smears of […]

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8 d. ago Internet and Mobile Phone Services Restored Across Afghanistan After Nationwide Outage

The Day the Network Died: Afghanistan’s Brief Digital Blackout and What It Felt Like On a gray morning in Kabul, the city woke up in silence—not the silence of dawn, but the odd, modern silence of a world suddenly unplugged. Phones that usually buzz with messages, money transfers and classroom links lay inert. Cafés that […]

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8 d. ago Two people killed after attack outside synagogue in Manchester

A Sacred Day Shattered: Morning at Heaton Park On a crisp autumn morning in Crumpsall, north Manchester, the hush of Yom Kippur was broken by sirens and shock. Families had gathered inside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue for one of the most solemn days of the Jewish calendar — a day of fasting, reflection […]

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1 week ago Heavy Rains Force Closures of Schools, Parks Across Eastern Spain

Valencia on Edge: Another Night of Torrential Rain Reopens Old Wounds The rain arrived like a referee’s whistle at midnight — sudden, uncompromising, and impossible to ignore. Sheets of cold water hammered tile roofs, ran in dirty ribbons down narrow streets, and turned the usually placid irrigation channels into fast, churning streams. By dawn, the […]

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2 w. ago Multiple killed as Israeli strikes hit Houthi targets in Yemen

Sanaa in Smoke: A City Wakes to the Sound of Bombs At dawn, the whitewashed mud-brick skyline of Yemen’s capital looked, for a moment, like any other morning in a city that has learned to wear resilience like a second skin—minarets cut against the pale light, tomatoes piled at the market, the scent of freshly […]

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2 w. ago Doctor likens Gaza City’s conditions to a horror film amid crisis

Inside Al-Shifa: Medicine at the Edge of Human Endurance When I first stepped into Al-Shifa Hospital by the light of a failing generator, the air hit me like a memory — hot, metallic, and heavy with the tang of antiseptic that wasn’t quite antiseptic anymore. Dr. Nada Abu Alrub, an Australian physician who came with […]

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2 w. ago Flights cancelled amid disruption at Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2

Rain, long queues and blinking screens: Dublin’s Terminal 2 in the digital age of fragility When I pushed through the glass doors of Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2, the first thing that hit me was the ordinary: the smell of fresh coffee, the whoosh of trolleys, the low hum of announcements. The second was the unusual […]

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2 w. ago Zelensky reports three people killed in Ukraine by Russian strikes

A Dawn of Sirens: When the Sky Became a Theater of War On a humid morning that began like any other for many Ukrainians, the sky turned into a stuttering nightmare. Air-raid sirens clawed through the streets of Kyiv, smoke rose in the distance, and within hours officials counted what they described as one of […]

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3 w. ago Israel intensifies strikes on Gaza City amid mass Palestinian displacement

Night Moves: Gaza City’s Last Quiet Before Another Storm The night in Gaza City is a fragile thing now—halting, punctured, threaded with a metallic scent that clings to clothing and memory. Tanks growl on the outskirts, distant at first and then alarmingly near, their blasts folding the dark into flashes that light up families crouched […]

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3 w. ago Russian Jets Allegedly Breach Estonia’s Airspace, Sources Say

When the Sky Stops Being Neutral: Jets, Drones and the New Face of European Pressure On a clear morning over the Baltic, the thread of routine that ties a small nation to its skies was snapped. Estonia’s air traffic controllers recorded three MiG-31 fighter jets crossing into their airspace without permission, lingering for twelve minutes […]

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3 w. ago Questions Raised Over US Drone Strike That Killed Somali Elder Near Badhan

Badhan (PP News Desk)  — The killing of a prominent Somali elder in a United States drone strike near Badhan… Sii akhri The post Questions Raised Over US Drone Strike That Killed Somali Elder Near Badhan appeared first on Puntland Post.

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3 w. ago French unions launch nationwide strikes over austerity, intensifying pressure on Macron

When the Streets Decide Budgets: France’s Vast Wave of Anti-Austerity Anger There is a particular sound to a country that’s had enough: the clatter of placards, the chant that ebbs and returns, the metallic ping of a shutter pulled down by a nervous shopkeeper. On a cool day that smelled of smoke and coffee, hundreds […]

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3 w. ago Gaza death toll from Israeli strikes surpasses 65,000, officials report

Gaza City on the Move — and the People Who Refuse to Be Moved The morning felt like any other across much of Gaza City — the air heavy with dust, the distant thud of shells like a monstrous, tragic heartbeat — until new leaflets fluttered down from the sky with instructions: leave. For 48 […]

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3 w. ago French unions stage nationwide strikes over austerity, raising pressure on Macron

France in the Streets: A Day of Strikes, School Blockades and a Nation on Edge Morning in Paris felt like a city holding its breath. The usual rhythm of metro announcements and café clatter was punctuated by the distant thrum of drums, clusters of teenagers chanting outside lycée gates, and the occasional skirl of a […]

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3 w. ago Gunman fatally shoots three police officers, wounds two in U.S.

When a Quiet Pennsylvania Road Turned Into a Scene of Mourning On a sun-bleached stretch of road in Codorus Township, where cornfields slope toward creaky farmhouses and church bells still mark the hour, a small community woke on an ordinary morning to an extraordinary grief. By midafternoon the hush had been replaced by flashing lights, […]

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3 w. ago Yulia Navalnaya says lab results point to her husband’s poisoning

A Cold Silence: New Claims, Old Wounds and the Question of Truth After Navalny’s Death The wind off the Arctic carries rumors differently. It strips them down to bones and leaves you with names, dates and the sharp, indelible scent of injustice. On a bitter February morning this year, the Russian opposition lost Alexei Navalny—47, […]

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