Tens of thousands of people again took to the street of Israeli cities on Saturday evening to protest against the right-wing religious government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They called for a more serious effort to negotiate the release of hostages held by the militant group Hamas. This Sunday will be exactly six months since terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing almost 1,200 people and kidnapping another 250 as hostages in the...
Tens of thousands protested against the government of Viktor Orban in downtown Budapest on Saturday, led by a lawyer formerly close to the administration who recently launched a political movement that aims to challenge the prime minister. Many wore the red-white-green national colours or carried the national flag, symbols that Orban's party used as their own for the past two decades. "These are the national colours of Hungary, not the government's," said 24-year-old Lejla, who travelled to...
Limited communications and uncertainty over detention have left many families unsure if their loved ones are alive or deadMiddle East crisis – live updatesLate one night in March, Ahmed Abu Jalala rose quietly, trying hard not to wake his family, sleeping around him on the floor of a UN-run school in northern Gaza.The 54-year-old father knew his six children needed food, but after months of war there was none. Little aid reached Jabaliya, where they had been staying since fleeing their small...
China reported a combined 32,380 cases of pertussis in January and February—compared with 1,421 cases during the same period in 2023. There were 13 deaths.
Kremlin official warns of more difficult days ahead after towns and cities overwhelmed by major rivers swollen by snowmeltRussia and Kazakhstan have ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after swiftly melting snow swelled rivers beyond bursting point in the worst flooding in the area for at least 70 years.The deluge of meltwater overwhelmed many settlements in the Ural mountains, Siberia and areas of Kazakhstan close to rivers such as the Ural and Tobol, which local officials said had...
Widespread outages across the Front Range have impacted tens of thousands of customers, including businesses that lost thousands of dollars in spoiled food and nonexistent sales, each day the power remained off.
Utility crews were working across New Hampshire on Friday to restore power to the more than 61,000 customers without electricity in the wake of Thursday's nor'easter.
The massive protests come after the IDF recovered the body of an abducted Israeli.
The rally was in support of Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar, a former Government insider.
Power restoration efforts in Maine and New Hampshire have entered yet another day as more than 100,000 homes and businesses remain in the dark several days after a powerful spring storm
A rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has mobilized tens of thousands of supporters and outlined a plan to unite the country and bring an end to the populist leader’s 14-year hold on power
Organisers said about 100,000 people converged at a Tel Aviv crossroads and were later joined by families of Gaza hostagesTens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Saturday to protest against Benjamin Netanyahu, as Israel’s war in Gaza reached its half-year mark.Organisers said about 100,000 people converged at a Tel Aviv crossroads renamed, Democracy Square, since mass protests against controversial judicial reforms last year. Continue reading