In six months of Russian occupation and eight months of fighting, Izyum hospital in eastern Ukraine never stopped working, operating on wounded civilians in its basement while awaiting liberation.. The Russian troops set up their own field hospital in a neighbouring basement.
Iranians staged new protest actions Thursday in defiance of a crackdown by the authorities as a rights groups said an 18-year-old became the latest teen killed in clashes in the northwest.. It said Momen Zandkarimi, 18-year-old from Sanandaj, was killed by direct fire from Iranian security forces.
Tropical Storm Lisa slowed on Thursday after making landfall in Belize, causing flooding and plunging parts of the country into darkness as it churned westwards toward Mexico. . Some parts of Belize were left without power as the storm lashed the country of about 405,000 people.
The lockdown of Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory, the world's biggest producer of iPhones, has highlighted some of the risks of relying on zero-Covid China's manufacturing sector, analysts told AFP. Foxconn, Apple's principal subcontractor, has seen a surge in Covid-19 cases at its Zhengzhou site, leading the company to lock down the vast complex in a bid to keep the virus in check.. Foxconn is China's biggest private sector employer, with over a million people working across the country in its around thirty factories and research institutes.
Two years after war broke out in northern Ethiopia between federal forces and Tigrayan rebels, the country remains in deep crisis, with its once-vibrant economy in ruins and a humanitarian disaster roiling Tigray.. With federal forces focused on northern Ethiopia, the risk of violence elsewhere flaring into prolonged instability poses yet another threat to the country of 120 million people.
Yulia Pogrebna has given up telling homesick villagers that now was not the time to go back to Ukraine's southern front.. - 'Back to work' - Ukraine's counteroffensive across the north and push ever deeper into the south has encouraged growing numbers to resettle lands precariously close to the front.
For years, scientists have been looking ever more seriously at the therapeutic effect of psychedelics, which are not legal under US federal law.. Some experts view psychedelics as a possible way to help them.
Smog in New Delhi hit "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity.. Every winter, cooler air, smoke from farmers burning stubble, and emissions from vehicles and other sources combine to create a deadly smog reducing visibility in the city of 20 million people.
The death toll from a powerful storm that triggered flooding and landslides across the Philippines has reached 150, disaster officials said Thursday, as more rain was forecast in some of the hardest-hit areas.. With more rain forecast Thursday, disaster agencies in Bangsamoro were preparing for the possibility of further destruction in the poor and mountainous region.
The gunman who murdered 17 people in a 2018 high school rampage was formally sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in a Florida court, where he was verbally confronted by furious parents.. Cruz also received life sentences for each of the 17 people he wounded in the shooting.
