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…
WESTERN EUROPE is in the grip of a blistering heatwave. Several countries have broken June temperature records. Roads in France are beginning to melt. Britain has closed schools and cancelled hospital appointments. The whole continent is warming faster than any other and, compared with other rich regions, is poorly equipped to handle the heat. Our…
US-Iran War Live Updates: US, Iran signed a 14-point deal to end the war on June 17 US-Iran War Live Updates: The United States and Iran have traded strikes after Washington accused Tehran of attacking a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. US Central Command said the strikes were a “powerful response” to an attack on…
Confidence in the U.S. president among Indians has fallen to its lowest level in roughly 25 years, and unfavourable views of America have climbed to a record high, even as overall favourability dropped sharply, according to historical data from global opinion surveys conducted annually by the Pew Research Centre. The record-high disapproval ratings during Trump’s…