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In the Sierra Tarahumara, gangs ‘disappear’ those who resist their lucrative illegal tree-felling operations Decades ago, the children of Rochéachi village in the Sierra Tarahumara – pine-covered mountains of north-west Mexico’s Chihuahua state – would run through the forest by night. In the rainy season, they would collect fireflies whose ...

Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation The UK’s most senior progressive rabbis have warned that Israel’s current political direction risks becoming “incompatible with Jewish values”, while insisting that criticism of the country’s government is “a Jewish obligation” rather than ...

The RSF leadership, accused of committing genocide, used UAE as a ‘safe haven’ for family members and their wealth, records show A network linked to the leadership of a militia accused of genocide has amassed a vast property portfolio in Dubai as part of a sprawling “paramilitary-industrial complex” across Africa ...

King Charles will address the US Congress on Tuesday and it is expected to express sympathy over Saturday’s gun attack. ...

The News Republicans will find it very difficult to make good on their vows to fast-track President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom, even after Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack targeting him and his administration. Democrats are not convinced that the $400 million ballroom is needed, seeing little connection ...

Tensions between the EU and China have flared up across diplomatic and economic channels. China on Monday attacked the bloc’s Made-in-Europe strategy aimed at promoting local industry and threatened to retaliate; Beijing also chastised Brussels for including Chinese companies in its latest anti-Russia sanctions package. The escalations come as new ...

India hit a record high demand for power over the weekend as a heat wave hit swaths of the world’s most populous nation. The surge, driven by household air conditioning use, points to the challenges facing India as it grapples with fossil fuel shortages from the Iran war. New Delhi ...

European air travel faces growing challenges from fuel price hikes, falling demand, and regulatory pressure, investment analysts warned. Apollo Investment Group’s chief economist said that Britain, France, and Germany — along with Australia — were the countries most vulnerable to rising jet fuel prices. Morgan Stanley told investors that it ...

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived at the White House on Monday, marking the first such visit by a British monarch in nearly two decades. The trip comes at a particularly fraught time: two days after an alleged assassination attempt on US President Donald Trump, and eight weeks into ...

Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips.  Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic ...