At least eight people, including four US tourists, were wounded in a shooting attack targeting a bus near the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday morning.Story Published at: August 15, 2022 at 03:25AM
Five Americans among injured in Jerusalem shooting attack
Children among dozens killed in Egypt church fire
At least 18 children were among the dozens of people known to have died after a fire broke out at a church in Giza’s Imbaba neighborhood in greater Cairo on Sunday, according to hospital documents seen by CNN.Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 06:48PM
She fled Afghanistan with her law degree sewn into her dress. Many of her colleagues were left behind
When Fawzia Amini worked as a senior judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she presided over cases of violent crimes against women, hearing harrowing and heart-breaking accounts of child marriage, sexual assault and femicide. Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 05:04AM
Liz Truss is a political shape shifter. Now she’s set for her toughest transformation yet as Britain’s likely next prime minister
The person most likely to replace Boris Johnson as leader of Britain’s governing Conservative Party and Prime Minister of the UK is a political chameleon who has gone from radical abolitionist to flag-bearer of the Euroskeptic, Conservative right. Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 05:04AM
‘Lives torn asunder.’ The children of Indian Partition, 75 years on
A small girl is woken in the night. The family is to travel immediately from their idyllic home near Lahore, in what is current-day Pakistan, to India. Story Published at: August 14, 2022 at 01:21AM
A Ukrainian power plant is facing increased shelling. The idea of a nuclear disaster is a daily reality
Every day Olga is bused from her home in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, on the banks of the Dnipro River in southeastern Ukraine, to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant where she works.Story Published at: August 13, 2022 at 10:49AM
One dead, 17 injured after stage collapse at Spanish music festival
One person died Saturday and 17 have been injured, three of them seriously, after a stage collapsed at a music festival near Valencia, Spain, according to local officials.Story Published at: August 13, 2022 at 10:23AM
Man rescued from tunnel allegedly planned bank heist: Rome police
A man rescued from the rubble of a collapsed tunnel in Rome has been accused of digging it as part of an elaborate movie-like plot to rob a bank.Story Published at: August 13, 2022 at 06:45AM
New Langya virus found in China could be ‘tip of the iceberg’ for undiscovered pathogens, researchers say
More surveillance is needed of a new virus detected in dozens of people in eastern China that may not cause the next pandemic but suggests just how easily viruses can travel unnoticed from animals to humans, scientists say. Story Published at: August 12, 2022 at 08:55AM
‘Anti-memorials’ honor Indian Partition’s unseen victims, 75 years on
Through quiet but searing installations, artist Pritika Chowdhry reckons with violence that ripples through generations: mass displacement, rape and riots tracing back to the snaking borders that split a nation. For 15 years, she has made artworks based on the partition of British India into an independent India and Pakistan in 1947, as well as the bloody nationalist conflict that […]