Cuba’s blackouts leave high-rise residents with constant uncertainty Will Grant spoke to a 70-year-old widow who says the inability to use her building's elevator during a power outage trapped her and her husband when he needed medical care. Emotional scenes as more survivors pulled from flooded Laos cave Divers in Laos have rescued four more villagers trapped in a flooded cave. The first survivor was pulled out on Friday. 22 killed as truck carrying refugees overturns in Afghanistan 22 people have been killed and 36 others injured when a truck carrying recently returned Afghan refugees overturned Edgar Morin, ‘Grandfather’ of French Intellectuals, Dies at 104 A former member of the Resistance, he went on to a career spanning eras and disciplines. His books and pronouncements carried moral authority. |
Home Front Command issues new guidelines for the North, canceling school in Lebanon border towns The new guidelines limit gatherings in communities along the Lebanese border to no more than 50 people outdoors and 200 indoors, and beaches are closed to the public. Israel pursuing ‘scorced earth’ policy, says Lebanon PM, as more airstrikes hit country’s south Nawaf Salam says Israel collectively punishing southern Lebanon and forcing people ‘into exile’ but defends security talks with Tel Aviv Lebanon’s prime minister accused Israel on Saturday of pursuing a “scorched-earth policy” in his country’s south, urging a halt to the fighting as Israel carried out fresh airstrikes and issued evacuation warnings for more than a dozen locations. A day after the… China expels NYT reporter over interview with Taiwan president China has expelled a New York Times journalist from the country over an interview the US-based newspaper conducted with Taiwan's president, as Beijing ramps up its campaign to isolate the self-ruled island on the world stage. Some Iranians abroad say they’d fight for the regime. Others want to topple it. Members of the diaspora in Iraq, from Sunni Muslim Kurds in the north to Shiite Persians in the south, are as divided over the war as Iranians back home. |
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