[ad_1] “Everyone is risking their lives for the sake of a little bag of flour,” he recalled. In those moments, he said, he felt as if he was doomed either to be crushed under the trucks’ wheels or killed by…
[ad_1] In the night, the mountain air not quite chill enough to still the insects, young people gathered around a glow. The light attracting them was not a phone screen, that electric lure for people almost everywhere, but a bonfire.…
[ad_1] Taiwan was shaken by a series of earthquakes on Monday and early Tuesday, the strongest with a magnitude of 6.3, partially toppling two buildings and keeping frightened residents up overnight. The tremors were aftershocks from the magnitude 7.4 quake…
[ad_1] As It Happens6:22Humans wiped out a native San Francisco butterfly. Now another species is filling its ‘big blue shoes’ For decades, conservationists have been restoring the biodiversity of San Francisco’s coastal dunes. But a key piece of the puzzle…
[ad_1] British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak promised on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of Parliament finally passed required legislation, delayed for weeks by attempts to alter the plan.…
[ad_1] Note: Map shows the area with a shake intensity of 4 or greater, which U.S.G.S. defines as “light,” though the earthquake may be felt outside the areas shown. The New York Times Two strong earthquakes shook Taiwan’s eastern coast…
[ad_1] Britain’s Conservative government finally won passage of its flagship immigration policy on Monday, enshrining a Rwanda deportation bill that human-rights campaigners say is inhumane, immigration experts say is unworkable and legal critics say has corroded the country’s reputation for…
[ad_1] European Union regulators on Monday threatened to fine TikTok over potentially addictive features on a version of its app called TikTok Lite, which was released to work more smoothly on slower wireless networks. The E.U. investigation adds to TikTok’s…
[ad_1] A review of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has found that it has “robust” frameworks to ensure compliance with humanitarian neutrality principles, though issues persist, in a report which could prompt some donors to review funding freezes. The…
[ad_1] A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine’s second-largest city uninhabitable, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Dramatic footage obtained by…