ROLLING FORK, Miss. — There’s no funeral home that’s capable yet of burying the dead. None of the few restaurants or food stores in town have reopened, so for many people their only meals come from volunteers on the side of the road. If houses are still standing, in many cases their residents are waiting […]
Ukraine’s defence minister has compared British tanks to Rolls-Royce cars after the weapons arrived at the frontline. Oleksii Reznikov gave Britain the thumbs up after he was driven in the first Challenger 2 main battle tank to arrive in the war-torn country. Pictured with the tank, he wrote on Facebook: ‘After personally “piloting” the Challenger, […]
LONDON — King Charles III of Britain will travel to Germany on Wednesday for his first trip abroad as monarch, after strikes and protests in France led to the cancellation of his planned state visit there. During a three-day visit to Berlin and Hamburg, the king and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will attend […]
When Howard Schultz of Starbucks testifies before a Senate committee on Wednesday about the company’s labor policies, he will no longer be its chief executive. But his presence will underscore his continuing sway over a company he has run on and off since the 1980s. The Capitol Hill appearance, which Mr. Schultz had resisted until […]
One day last year, Julie Gauthier went on Twitter with a confession to make. “Unpopular opinion: I don’t have zoom fatigue and I miss zoom happy hours and game nights,” she wrote. “I feel more isolated now than I did when friends all took time to chat online at the beginning of the pandemic.” Ms. […]
Moment brave cop takes down Nashville school shooter with precision shots before colleague finishes her off on the floor: Police release six minutes of hellish bodycam footage The footage show cops trying to find Hale after rushing to the Covenant School She was on the second floor, and engaged in a gunfight in a desperate […]
MADISON, Wis. — It is a judicial election like no other in American history. Thirty million dollars and counting has poured into the campaign for a swing seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, with TV ads swamping the airwaves. The candidates leave no illusions that they would be neutral on the court. And the race will […]
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For most of last year, thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flocked to the Indonesian island of Bali to escape the war. There they found refuge in a tropical paradise where locals rolled out the welcome mat for Ukrainians fleeing the shelling and Russians dodging the draft. Then, a Russian influencer scaled a 700-year-old sacred tree, […]
To underscore the celebratory atmosphere surrounding the long-awaited visit by South Korea’s president this week, Japan’s prime minister hosted not just one, but two, dinners on Thursday night in Tokyo. Shortly after Yoon Suk Yeol, of South Korea, told reporters that “frozen ties should be thawed” and Fumio Kishida, of Japan, hailed “a new chapter” […]