[ad_1] The convoy rolled out of the military base before dawn into the mist-shrouded mountains straddling Guatemala’s border with Mexico. Its mission: destroy opium poppies used to make heroin. Armed with rifles and machetes, the caravan’s nearly 300 soldiers and…
[ad_1] The Ukrainian marine infantryman endured nine months of physical and psychological torture as a Russian prisoner of war, but was allotted only three months of rest and rehabilitation before being ordered back to his unit. The infantryman, who asked…
[ad_1] Landing by helicopter at a women’s prison where the Vatican has mounted its pavilion for the Venice Biennale international art exhibition, Pope Francis on Sunday told the women incarcerated there that they had a “special place in my heart.”…
[ad_1] Ukraine is facing hard choices as it decides who to call up to the fight against an all-out Russian invasion that has lasted more than two years. Men as young as 25 can now be drafted, down from age 27…
[ad_1] Several tents have gone up on McGill’s downtown campus in what students are calling an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause, joining a wave of similar protests taking place across U.S. campuses amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. On Saturday afternoon,…
[ad_1] A young woman with enviable dark lashes looks straight into the camera, holds a pink lash curler and offers her viewers a makeup tutorial. “Hi guys, I’m going to teach you how to get long lashes,” says Feroza Aziz.…
[ad_1] A tornado that swept through the southern Chinese economic hub of Guangzhou killed five people and damaged scores of factory buildings on Saturday. The tornado struck at about 3 p.m. and injured another 33 people as it slammed through…
[ad_1] She became a writer because her country vanished overnight. Jenny Erpenbeck, now 57, was 22 in 1989, when the Berlin Wall cracked by accident, then collapsed. She was having a “girls’ evening out,” she said, so she had no…
[ad_1] Thirty years ago, the South African miracle came true. Millions voted in the country’s first democratic elections, seemingly delivering a death blow to apartheid. The African National Congress rose to power under the leadership of Nelson Mandela and used…
[ad_1] Before Israel’s invasion of Gaza last year, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Reqeb worked in one of the Palestinian territory’s largest hospitals and had a private clinic, caring for women throughout their pregnancies. Now, he lives in a plastic tent in Rafah,…