Rescue efforts under way after buildings reduced to rubble in capital and along northern coast Hundreds of people are feared to have died and thousands have been injured in Venezuela’s largest earthquake in more than a century. Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 hit 39 seconds apart near the ...
The Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children | Moira DoneganThe Trump administration is calling frozen embryos children | Moira Donegan
A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness ...
UK braced for hottest June night after 36.7C high on warmest day of yearUK braced for hottest June night after 36.7C high on warmest day of year
Temperatures reach 36.7C in Merryfield, Somerset, the highest temperature so far this year and the hottest June day on record. ...
Activists need to go back to basicsActivists need to go back to basics
Rohan’s view Activists are a little lost. The end of near zero-interest rates and the wacky dislocation of AI has scuttled the impact of tried-and-true activist plays like levered buybacks and cost-cutting campaigns. But this AI era is actually the perfect time for the right breed of activists: those with ...
The dirtiest supply chain on EarthThe dirtiest supply chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos. The New Yorker journalist plots the rise of lithium-ion batteries from their invention in the 1970s to the vast, geopolitically vital resource they are now. The story he tells is of “governments and consumers in wealthier countries pursuing supposedly green ambitions from the costs unfolding someplace else,” ...
Iran war drives US inflation to three-year highIran war drives US inflation to three-year high
US inflation hit its highest level in three years in May, as the war in the Middle East drove energy prices higher across the country. But Thursday’s data suggested a broader problem across categories, with core inflation, which excludes volatile food and energy costs, also ticking up last month. Despite ...
US energy dominance faces a test in UkraineUS energy dominance faces a test in Ukraine
The News One essential facet of US President Donald Trump’s overseas energy dominance strategy is proving slow to materialize. At a major Ukraine recovery conference today in Poland, Kyiv’s allies announced more than €10 billion in new business deals and aid packages. But notably absent were any new project investments ...
Gulf wealthy snap up exclusive European mansionsGulf wealthy snap up exclusive European mansions
Gulf billionaires are still snapping up some of Europe’s most expensive properties: A hospitality group owned by a Qatari royal family member is buying a Sardinian compound once known for its infamous “bunga bunga” parties. Villa Certosa was sold by the heirs of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who ...
Iran rejects UN-backed plan to free ships trapped in strait of HormuzIran rejects UN-backed plan to free ships trapped in strait of Hormuz
Blocking of proposal backed by Oman signals new threat to free passage through strait vital to world economy Iran has rejected UN-backed plans for the mass evacuation of ships through the strait of Hormuz, creating a new threat to the free passage of commercial ships through the strait. The proposal, ...
Israeli forces arrest Palestinian ‘doctor of the poor’Israeli forces arrest Palestinian ‘doctor of the poor’
Dr Mazen Al-Rantisi, a 71-year-old physician well known for providing care to low-income Palestinians, was arrested in the occupied West Bank Israeli forces on Sunday arrested a prominent 71-year-old Palestinian physician known as the “doctor of the poor” in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the occupied West Bank, ...