Gaza has been held under water for 22 months, allowed to gasp for air only when Israeli authorities have succumbed to political pressure from those with more leverage than international law itself. After months of relentless bombardment, forced displacement...
Chaotic and unpredictable, keeping up with Donald Trump’s volatile trade war – never mind his presidency – can be tough.Back in April after his “Liberation Day” tariff announcement, the talk was of the president crashing the global economy. Then,...
Huge crowds of pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, Bob Carr and Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.The world-famous...
Brandyn Payton, left, and his wife Kelsey Payton, second from left, play a game of cards at their campsite at Bristol Motor Speedway on Friday in Bristol, Tennessee. Photograph: George Walker IV/AP
Hanging is the preferred method of execution in Iran, although stoning and crucifixion offer alternative options for an ever-vengeful theocracy. Death by hanging is not necessarily quick. Strangulation and suffocation can take several minutes. The UN says more than...
Russia launched a missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital said on the Telegram messaging app. Reuters’ witnesses heard a loud blast shaking the city soon after midnight. The reported...
The WNBA said Saturday that the individual who threw a sex toy on the court at an Atlanta Dream game earlier in the week was arrested and that any person throwing objects onto the court will be ejected from...
Hurdles queen Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone stormed to victory in the 400m at the US track and field trials on Saturday to book her spot at the World Athletics Championships, narrowly missing the American record in her weaker event.The twice-Olympic champion,...
A group led by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca has reached a deal to buy the Connecticut Sun for a record $325m and move the team to Boston, according to a person familiar with the sale.The franchise wouldn’t play...
Authorities continued to search Saturday afternoon for the man accused of killing four people at a Montana bar.Local, state and federal law enforcement were looking for 45-year-old Michael Paul Brown, a US army veteran who lived in a small...
