LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — A mix of rescue teams and civilians on Sunday peered at a mountain of rubble almost indistinguishable from the other ruins lining swathes of the northern Venezuelan coast following two devastating earthquakes. In the days since Wednesday’s devastating 7.2 and 7.5 quakes, search teams and locals had believed that there…
This happened after a vessel carrying him and another person went missing. Cairo: Qatar’s interior ministry said on Sunday a Qatari national was killed after sustaining injuries from shrapnel due to “military operations in the area” after a vessel carrying him and another person went missing. The ministry said the second individual was injured, adding…
June 28 (Reuters) – Russian attacks killed at least four people on Sunday in Ukraine’s southeast and northeast, regional officials said. Strikes on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia killed two people and injured 16, Regional Governor Ivan Fedorov said on Telegram. Pictures posted online by the governor showed a building ablaze and parts of a…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said Sunday. Ukraine has markedly stepped up its long-range attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities in recent months, aiming to cut Moscow’s…
PARIS, June 28 (Reuters) – France has recorded 1,000 excess deaths during the blistering heatwave sweeping Europe, the public health agency said on Sunday, warning that the true figure was likely to be higher. Detailing its preliminary count of excess deaths, Sante Publique said most of the fatalities involved older people and that it expected…
Rescue crews working at one of the many buildings destroyed in Venezuela’s killer earthquakes called for silence as they heard some kind of sound from a survivor buried in the rubble. They called out the missing man’s name — “Jonathan!” — and his wife, Barbara Palacios, jumped with joy and excitement. She looked up to…
The US military has launched further strikes on multiple targets in Iran, the US Central Command (Centcom) confirmed, a day after it had struck Iran in retaliation for a drone attack on a cargo ship in the strait of Hormuz. Centcom said its strikes on Saturday were in “direct response to continued Iranian aggression against…
ITALY A Catholic parish’s statue of a saint, that was on display in the church for two decades, recently appeared to be crying. A parishioner of Santa Maria delle Grazie in the town of Casalba noticed the statue of St. Padre Pio with a red-colored tear, resembling blood, which looked like it was falling from…
While Londoners scurried from building to building seeking shade on another baking hot day this week, one man paused in the shadow of the Royal Courts of Justice. The leader of Oxfordshire county council, Tim Bearder, was not only happy in the shade of the court’s gothic towers. He had just won a landmark legal…
Several of Giorgia Meloni’s ministers are due at a reception at the American embassy in Rome on July 2nd to mark the United States’ 250th birthday. The mood may not be festive. Last week a row between the prime minister and President Donald Trump led to her foreign minister scrapping a visit to Washington. Then…