Gujarat is not unfamiliar with rain-related calamities but big rainstorms are not expected in the state during winter months.Twenty-four people have died by lightning strikes and about 23 injured in rain-related incidents in the western Indian state of...
Al-Shifa Hospital has been a major focus of Israel’s ground offensive in northern Gaza, with the World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, calling it “a death zone”.
More than 200 medical personnel have been killed and most hospitals...
The opposition’s failure to work together puts the DPP’s William Lai in pole position for January’s presidential election.Taiwan’s opposition parties are due to register separate candidates for next year’s presidential elections, hours after an attempt to field a...
As the war enters its 637th day, these are the main developments.Here is the situation on Wednesday, November 22, 2023.
Fighting
Ukraine’s military spokesperson Oleksandr Shtupun said Russia had reduced ground assaults and air strikes on the eastern town of...
Food aid is due to stop in January in a country taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Sudan’s war.The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says food aid to 1.4 million people in Chad, including newly...
Investors reportedly concerned they could lose hundreds of millions of dollars they invested in the tech startup.Some investors in OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, are exploring legal recourse against the company’s board, sources familiar with the matter have...
The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil – famed as a paradise of biodiversity – have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them since the beginning of November as raging wildfires are reducing vast expanses to scorched earth.
Known for...
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were the longest-married presidential couple, having wed in 1946 when he was 21 and she was 18.Rosalynn Carter, the former first lady of the United States and the closest adviser to Jimmy Carter during...
First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths.Hamas fighters who attacked a music festival in Israel on October 7, killing hundreds, likely did not know in advance about the event and decided...
