Month: August 2026

First responders, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops Firefighters and residents of south Lebanon have accused the Israeli military of lighting wildfires in the region, as forested areas burned down in blazes sparked by Israeli bombing. Environmental groups said the fires in recent ...

Struggling on her meagre pay, Faten Ben Omar El Azizi dreamed of reaching Europe. Then she joined thousands trying to reach a better life in Spain Football was the life Faten Ben Omar El Azizi had wanted. She had long played in Morocco’s regional league for Maghreb Atlético Tetuán, whose ...

The migrant influx prompted recriminations and a tit-for-tat dispute between Italy and Spain. Putin, Erdoğan and others will have taken note Within hours of the first pictures of tens of thousands of migrants swimming the short distance from Morocco to the Spanish north African enclave of Ceuta hitting social media ...

The chief inspector of probation for England and Wales tells the BBC services are already under “unprecedented pressure”. ...

India’s world-leading IT sector is downsizing, facing mass disruption by AI. Several large employers have slashed headcount by as much as 6% this year, the Financial Times reported: “The tool that we gave our sweat, blood and bones to — it threw us out,” said one IT worker. The industry ...

Iran doubled down on its demands for reopening the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, insisting that the US and its allies unfreeze its assets and end hostilities across the region. Tehran’s statement dampened hopes that a deal with Oman could provide a route for commercial shipping sooner than the US ...

Longtime OpenAI executive Brad Lightcap announced his exit Tuesday, continuing a months-long leadership exodus from the company ahead of its planned IPO. OpenAI’s head of ethics also recently left, following the head of safety systems and the former mission alignment chief. The departures come as OpenAI battles a perception that ...

VoteVets Action Fund is going into Alaska, launching a $225,000 ad buy against Sen. Dan Sullivan for his votes against reining in President Donald Trump’s Iran war powers, according to details first shared with Semafor. It’s the start of what’s expected to be a larger VoteVets campaign against Sullivan, who ...

The News President Donald Trump has a new legislative obsession: College sports. The president is getting closely involved in efforts to pass the Senate’s bipartisan college sports bill. He’s spent the last week whipping senators to support it and even enlisted former Alabama football coach Nick Saban to dial up ...

Is there any science behind the recommendations? Will they result in lower vaccination rates? And will they cause a resurgence of preventable diseases? A new executive order from the US president, Donald Trump, calls for sweeping changes to childhood vaccine recommendations. His plans would result in fewer vaccines being recommended ...