Valerie disappeared in November 2023, slipping out of her pen and into the bush on Australia’s Kangaroo Island. For the next 529 days, the miniature dachshund eluded capture, despite the occasional spotting by locals and surveillance cameras. Now, her journey is finally over. Valerie has been recaptured “safe and sound,” her rescuers said late last…
The relationship between Israel and the United Nations — already fraught with mutual recrimination —- has nose-dived since the beginning of the war. U.N. officials and institutions have excoriated Israeli policies publicly and repeatedly. Israel has accused the United Nations of bias and claim that UNRWA is infiltrated by Hamas and its allies. UNRWA fired…
Canadians are voting today in an election that will determine which party will lead its government: the Liberal Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Mark Carney, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who hope to return to power after nearly a decade in the opposition. Here’s what to expect as voting…
Canadians are voting today in an election that will determine which party will lead its government: the Liberal Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Mark Carney, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who hope to return to power after nearly a decade in the opposition. Here’s what to expect as voting…
Canadians are voting today in an election that will determine which party will lead its government: the Liberal Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Mark Carney, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who hope to return to power after nearly a decade in the opposition. Here’s what to expect as voting…
Ten people tied to a group nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” went on trial in Paris on Monday over accusations that they plotted and carried out a brazen robbery against Kim Kardashian in the French capital nearly a decade ago. The defendants are accused of involvement in a violent attack on the reality TV star and…
Widespread power outages were reported Monday in parts of Spain, Portugal and France, affecting critical infrastructure like airports and causing transportation disruptions. “The interruption was due to a problem in the European electricity grid,” E-Redes, the national energy supplier of Portugal, said in a statement. In addition to Portugal, it said, “The blackout also affected…
The Ukrainian soldiers rose in the predawn, stretching, rubbing their eyes and rolling up sleeping bags in a basement hide-out near the front line in the country’s east. Their day would not take them far afield. Most stayed in the basement, working with keyboards and joysticks controlling drones. At a precarious moment for Ukraine, as…
When rebel forces took over Syria, they pledged to unite the country’s disparate armed groups into a unified national army. The biggest challenge for them by far has been in northeastern Syria, an autonomous region run by the country’s Kurdish minority where suspicion of the new leadership runs deep. In past years, the rebels and…
A tiny sandbar in the disputed South China Sea has become the latest flashpoint in tensions between China and the Philippines, with each side displaying its flag to reinforce competing claims on the island. Earlier this month, members of the Chinese Coast Guard landed on the disputed reef, Sandy Cay, unfurled a flag and “exercised…
