August2024

On Friday, the Reykjanes peninsula’s southwest saw the formation of a second fissure, according to Icelandic authorities, but the region’s volcanic activity had diminished after lava began to gush out for the sixth time since December....

American forces killed a senior leader of an Al-Qaeda-affiliated militant group in a strike in Syria on Friday, the US military said. The strike targeted Abu Abdul Rahman al-Makki, who was “a Hurras al-Din Shura Council...

Starting on Wednesday, the Paralympics will take place in Paris, showcasing the abilities of exceptional athletes in a city still recovering from the enormously successful Olympics. Sophisticated veterans will compete with a new generation of Paralympians...

NASA is anticipated to make a decision on Saturday on the return of two astronauts who boarded Boeing’s Starliner to the International Space Station or if they will have to wait a bit longer to board...

On Friday, a bus full of Indian tourists fell off a Nepali highway and into a river, killing 27 and wounding 16. The Himalayan Republic has a comparatively high rate of fatal collisions due to inadequate...

Protesters including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and members of Extinction Rebellion on Saturday tried to blockade of a gas and oil processing plant in southwest Norway. In a post to social media, Extinction Rebellion Norway said...

The White House stated on Friday that progress had been made in the Cairo talks toward a Gaza truce, and it urged Israel and Hamas to proceed. The White House verified that senior official Brett McGurk...

The United States and 10 Latin American countries issued a joint statement Friday rejecting the Venezuela Supreme Court’s certification of President Nicolas Maduro’s July 28 reelection, widely rejected at home and abroad. The governments of Argentina, Costa...

One day before Ukraine celebrates its independence, on Friday, the United States announced broad penalties against over 400 people and organizations connected to Russia’s war in that country. The actions taken against Russia over the invasion,...

The United Nations warned that a human tragedy was occurring in Rakhine State on Friday, expressing fear that the atrocities against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar might recur. Volker Turk, the UN’s human rights commissioner, expressed...