BBC: Millions of people across the US East Coast are braced for record 4 July temperatures over the holiday weekend. The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned the heat index – a measure of how hot it feels based on heat and humidity – could reach as high as 115F in cities such as Washington […]
BBC: France has said it recorded an increase of more than 2,000 deaths during the last week of a record-breaking European heatwave in June as forecasters warn of further extreme temperatures on the continent in the next few days. Deaths rose 29% in the last week of June compared to the week before, with French […]
BBC: At least 32 people were killed and 16 others injured after an overcrowded passenger bus plunged into a ravine in south-western Pakistan. The bus was travelling from Quetta to Peshawar, when it crashed in the Dana Sar mountain range, on the border between Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, at about 08:00 local time (03:00 […]
BBC: A man has been rescued alive after being trapped for eight days in the rubble of a building that collapsed after twin earthquakes in Venezuela. Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble. A Chilean firefighter had earlier described the […]
BBC: Russian forces have launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv overnight, killing 27 people, in what the city’s mayor described as the “most massive attack” on the Ukrainian capital. Ninety-one people were injured, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, Timur Tkachenko, said. Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said an ambulance station was among the […]
BBC: A bomb blast at a crowded cafe in central Damascus has killed at least six people and injured 22 others, Syrian state media say. The interior ministry said an explosive device was planted inside the cafe, which is located only 100m (330ft) from the Palace of Justice, a major government building in the capital’s […]
BBC: Eight Buddhist monks were killed and more than 10 others in their procession injured when they were hit by an 11-year-old boy driving his parents’ pickup truck in north-east Thailand, police said. The group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a road in Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the […]
Al Jazeera: Milan, Italy – Public institutions in European Union countries are signing profitable contracts with Israeli companies despite Israel’s long track record of war crimes in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank, data collected by Statewatch and revealed by Al Jazeera shows. The figures show Spain, among Europe’s most vocal critics of Israel, agreed to 14 contracts worth […]
BBC: India has asked WhatsApp to pause the rollout of a new feature that would let users chat using unique usernames, saying it could increase online fraud and phishing scams. The feature – which will let people chat without revealing their phone numbers – is expected to be rolled out to WhatsApp’s three billion global users over […]
BBC: Police in Singapore have seized a multi-million dollar luxury home that was allegedly bought using proceeds from smuggling Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips. The property last changed hands for 55 million Singapore dollars (£32m; $42.5m), with at least two-thirds of its purchase price allegedly funded by illicit earnings, authorities said on Wednesday. The home […]
