Mega-blazes put spotlight on Europe’s firefighting tactics
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) - As wildfires incinerate swathes of the Mediterranean, United Nations officials and disaster experts have called for an...
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Why an ex-supermodel who says she was raped at 17 is suing now
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) - In the early 1980s, long before she would become one of the most recognisable models in...
Italian charity founder and surgeon Gino Strada dies at 73
ROME (REUTERS) - Dr Gino Strada, the founder of one of Italy's most prominent charities and builder of hospitals in...
Houston schools defy Republican governor to require masks for students and teachers
HOUSTON (BLOOMBERG) - The board of the Houston Independent School District, the seventh-largest United States school system, on Thursday (Aug...
Turkey combats Black Sea floods, death toll rises to 31
SINOP, TURKEY (REUTERS) - Emergency workers battled to relieve flood-hit areas of Turkey's Black Sea region on Friday (Aug 13),...
Debt in a warm climate: coronavirus and carbon set scene for default
LONDON (REUTERS) - Where Covid-19 has precipitated unprecedented debts, climate change could trigger defaults across a planet which a United...
Blood and billions of dollars: Nato’s long war in Afghanistan
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) - Taleban fighters seized vast swathes of Afghanistan in the last few months and the Islamist militants have...
Biden faces mounting blame for Afghanistan debacle
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Taleban's stunning advances in Afghanistan threaten to be a stain on President Joe Biden's record, but...
New York Assembly suspends Cuomo impeachment effort after his resignation
NEW YORK (REUTERS) - Lawmakers in the New York Assembly have suspended their impeachment investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo in...
Canada to accept 20,000 vulnerable Afghans such as women leaders, human rights workers
OTTAWA (REUTERS) - Canada plans to resettle more than 20,000 vulnerable Afghans including women leaders, human rights workers and reporters...