Whale seen in video with swimmers dies off Australian beach
A sperm whale that became stranded on a sandbank at a popular beach near Perth, Western Australia on the weekend has died. Officials from the Parks and Wildlife Service of…
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Pakistani armed forces suffer deadliest attack this year
Twenty-three Pakistani soldiers were killed Tuesday when a six-man suicide squad attempted to drive a truck full of explosives into a military camp in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Climate summit in Dubai goes into overtime as bitter division over fossil fuels delays agreement
The global climate summit went into overtime on Tuesday with no deal on the meeting’s final agreement, and countries are bitterly divided over whether to call time on fossil fuels. Negotiators are scrambling last-ditch…
Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, hepatitis: Thousands fall ill in war-ravaged Gaza amid spike in infectious diseases
Bloody diarrhea, jaundice, acute hepatitis and respiratory infections. These are just some of the diseases spreading in the Gaza Strip, where the World Health Organization (WHO) says the health system…
Scientists uncover unexpected cooling phenomenon in Himalayas as temperatures warm
Glaciers in the Himalayas are melting rapidly, but a new report showed an astonishing phenomenon in the world’s tallest mountain range could be helping to slow the effects of the…
UN General Assembly votes to demand immediate ceasefire in Gaza
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in war-torn Gaza, in a rebuke to the United States which has repeatedly blocked ceasefire calls in…
Gaza healthcare workers ‘taken’ by Israeli forces, says doctor, amid ‘horrendous conditions’ at hospitals
A senior doctor in northern Gaza says that dozens of medical staffers at his hospital have been taken to an undisclosed location by the Israeli military, as the enclave’s wider…
Security breach at India’s parliament on 22nd anniversary of deadly attack
Two unidentified men stormed the lower house of India’s parliament on Wednesday, in a major security breach that fell on the anniversary of a deadly attack on the complex more…
COP28 climate agreement makes unprecedented call for transition from fossil fuels, but ‘cavernous’ loopholes remain
The world agreed to a new climate deal in Dubai on Wednesday at the COP28 summit after two weeks of painstaking talks, making an unprecedented call to transition away from…
‘We have the right to live.’ Starvation, disease, and winter chill threaten the survival of displaced civilians in Gaza
Salwa Tibi recalls how she covered several miles on foot in southern Gaza, in a desperate search for blankets and sheets that might help keep her four children and other…