Tens of thousands of homes in New Zealand were without power and hundreds of flights were cancelled Monday as a tropical storm lashed the north of the country. . National carrier Air New Zealand said it had so far cancelled 509 flights, but normal services were expected to resume Tuesday.
Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank.. The strikes were launched were "in response to the Saturday rocket launch from Gaza into Israel," the army added in a statement.
An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.. - 'Forbidden to retreat' - But both sides have described the battle for Bakhmut as the bloodiest of the war.
Cuban Carlos Pupo Sablon spared no effort to join up with his fellow Harley-Davidson enthusiasts. . Pupo Sablon was recognized for his efforts, winning the prize for having traveled the furthest distance to attend the event.
The world's biggest and richest companies are failing to deliver on their climate pledges, according to an in-depth analysis released Monday that calls on governments to crack down on corporate greenwashing.. "The overwhelming majority of these corporations are simply not delivering the goods they promised," the 2023 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor concluded.
David Jolicoeur, member of the De La Soul trio who went by "Trugoy the Dove," has died, US media reported Sunday.. Trugoy had spoken publicly in recent years about his struggles with congestive heart failure, and said his health problems had prevented him from performing and touring with his fellow De La Soul members.
The United Nations decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher.. An Israeli emergency relief organisation said Sunday it had suspended its earthquake rescue operation in Turkey and returned home because of a "significant" security threat to its staff.
The US and Canada were working Sunday to recover the remnants of three mysterious objects shot down over their territory, amid growing jitters that resulted in several brief air-space closures in recent days.. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meantime was heading Sunday to the western Yukon territory, where an unidentified object was shot down a day earlier.
The WHO chief said Sunday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad had voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in the country's rebel-held northwest.. Equally vital for Syria's quake-hit northwest is speeding up aid from within the country.
Carmen Manchego looks down at the remnants of homes sticking out of the quagmire of mud that engulfed the Peruvian mining town of Pampaylima.. Some Pampaylima residents attempt to recover belongings that were spared the widespread destruction amongst the rubble from prefabricated homes demolished by the mud.
