Experts say Cyclone Chido was fueled by warm Indian Ocean temperatures driven by climate change. Cyclone Chido killed at least 94 people in Mozambique in its deadly rampage through the Indian Ocean last week, the country’s disaster management agency said Sunday, raising a previous death toll of 76. The cyclone, which devastated the French island […]
Officials have said that the death toll in Mayotte, currently at 35, could end up in the thousands. But in the capital, there were no scenes of public mourning and little talk of searches for missing loved ones.
The swirling wind and rain hit an area where a yearslong insurgent conflict had already forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes.
Tucked into a $895 billion Pentagon bill making its way through Congress is a little-noticed provision to further conceal the death toll in Gaza — the latest effort by U.S. policymakers to cast doubt on casualty figures reported by Palestinian health officials. The House approved this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, on Wednesday […]
A relative of Vladimir Putin has accidentally let slip secret Kremlin data that reveals Russia’s losses in its war in Ukraine. Ana Tsivilyova, the reported daughter of Putin’s cousin and a deputy defence minister, said that the Kremlin had received tens of thousands of appeals from relatives looking to track missing soldiers. “The ministry of […]
A spitting cobra can deliver venom either through a bite or by ejecting it from its fangs.Credit: BlackBoxGuild/Creatas/Getty Venomous snakes bite millions of people every year, most of them in India. Ravikar Ralph, a physician at the Christian Medical College Vellore hospital in India, is one of the people who treats them. The hospital, one […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Inhaling smoke is bad for you. Smoke from any kind of fire, from bonfire to burn-off to uncontrolled wildfire, can have serious consequences. Even low levels of smoke can make many heart and lung diseases worse, sometimes triggering a rapid deterioration in health. When we are repeatedly exposed over months and […]
BBC Crystal Coleman stands in front of the ruins of her home in south Florida Crystal Coleman sits outside the remnants of her home in St Lucie County, Florida, and wonders where she and her daughter will spend the night. One of at least a dozen tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton tore through this low-income […]
The attack hit a health authority building, Lebanese officials said. The Israeli military expanded its evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah said a senior leader was among those killed, the day after confirming the death of a top commander wanted by the U.S. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said the death toll had risen to at least 31 and included women and children.
