In this week’s Down to Earth newsletter: what the Guardian’s Sirin Kale saw when reporting on environmental disasters in Germany, Belgium and the UK• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to get the newsletter in fullThis is an extract of this week’s Down to Earth newsletter, to get more exclusive environmental journalism in your inbox every Thursday sign up hereIt’s common to think about the climate crisis as something that will happen in the future, in the global...
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers, an anguish only compounded by the fact that nearly every other major civil rights case during that time has passed her by. It took just months []
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Mona Hardin has been waiting five long years for any resolution to the federal investigation into her son’s deadly arrest by Louisiana State Police troopers
Simultaneously, dozens of lives were lost due to recent floods in several provinces of the country. Hamid Karzai and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah appealed for assistance from aid organizations for the flood victims. Hamid Karzai, the former president of the country, on Saturday, May 11, in a statement, expressed condolences to the survivors of the recent […]
EUCLID, Ohio (AP/WTRF) — An Ohio police officer was shot and killed after being “ambushed” while answering a disturbance call over the weekend, and a suspect was later found dead by police, authorities said Sunday. Police in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid said officers were dispatched just before 10 p.m. Saturday to a home after []
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Update: Jennifer Pace won the Republican nomination at 11:05 a.m. INDIANAPOLIS — The leader in the Republican race for Indiana’s seventh district seat in the U.S. House of Representativ
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A shootout in Congo’s capital early Sunday morning between armed men in military uniform and a top politician’s guards has left three people dead, according to the politician’s spokesman and local media.
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Raise your hand if you were totally fooled by ABC’s promo for this week’s 9-1-1, which led viewers to believe that we were in for an hour-long standoff between Bobby and Amir (Malcom-Jamal Warner), the nurse who lost the love of his life in the Baltimore fire caused by Bobby all those years ago. To […]
The United Nation’s World Food Program announced this weekend that at least 300 individuals have died, and more than 4,000 homes were destroyed or damaged in flash flooding that hit northern Afghanistan. The death toll comes as heavy rains hit Baghlan province on Friday. Videos on social media have shown substantial destruction in the area
At least seven people have died in northeastern Iran amid severe flooding and heavy rainfall in the city of Mashhad, with local authorities warning the death toll may rise as rescue operations continue.