Lebanese emergency services are overwhelmed and need better gear to save lives in wartime

Lebanese emergency services are overwhelmed and need better gear to save lives in wartime

BEIRUT — When Israel bombed buildings outside the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, Mohamed Arkadan and his team rushed to an emergency unlike anything they had ever seen. About a dozen apartments had collapsed onto the hillside they once overlooked, burying more than 100 people. Even after 17 years with the civil defense forces of … Read more

A bomb hits a vehicle guarding an anti-polio drive in Pakistan and wounds 9

A bomb hits a vehicle guarding an anti-polio drive in Pakistan and wounds 9

Officials say a roadside bomb has hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting a polio immunization drive in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, wounding six officers and three civilians PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying officers assigned to protect health workers conducting … Read more

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped bring about the end of World War II, but survivors and the generations that followed were left … Read more

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

‘We were expendable’: Downwinders from world’s 1st atomic test are on a mission to tell their story

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — It was the summer of 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan, killing thousands of people as waves of destructive energy obliterated two cites. It was a decisive move that helped bring about the end of World War II, but survivors and the generations that followed were left … Read more

3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna

3rd person in custody over foiled plot targeting now-canceled Taylor Swift shows in Vienna

VIENNA — A third teenager has been arrested in connection with a foiled attack on now-canceled Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, Austria’s interior minister said Friday. Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said an 18-year-old was taken into custody Thursday evening in Vienna after allegedly being in contact with the main suspect. Karner announced the arrest … Read more

Pakistani officer wounded in attack on polio workers dies, raising bombing death toll to 7

Pakistani officer wounded in attack on polio workers dies, raising bombing death toll to 7

KHAR, Pakistan — An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in northwestern Pakistan died in a hospital on Tuesday, raising the death toll from the attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, to seven. Police said in a statement that at least three officers … Read more

Bomb targeting police assigned for anti-polio campaign kills 6 officers, wounds 10 in NW Pakistan

Bomb targeting police assigned for anti-polio campaign kills 6 officers, wounds 10 in NW Pakistan

A roadside bomb has exploded near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others KHAR, Pakistan — A roadside bomb exploded Monday near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in … Read more

Live updates | Palestinian refugee camps shelled in central Gaza as Israel seeks to expand offensive

Live updates | Palestinian refugee camps shelled in central Gaza as Israel seeks to expand offensive

Israel is apparently preparing to expand its ground offensive in Gaza into a third section of the territory. Palestinian refugee camps were bombarded in central Gaza on Tuesday, residents said. More than 20,600 Palestinians, two-thirds of them women and children, have been killed since the start of the war, according to the Health Ministry in … Read more