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AFP via Getty ImagesA woman wades through floodwaters outside her inundated house at a village in Assam’s Sivasagar Well past midnight on 19 July, as floodwaters surged through a village in India’s northeastern state of Assam, Bornali Baruah and her husband were trying to save his 97-year-old mother.Almost bedridden, Lokada Duarah could not walk. There was no boat, no rescue team and no neighbour available to help. So they lifted her onto a makeshift raft made of banana trunks, and carried her through the rushing water towards safety.”Everyone was trying to save themselves,” Baruah says.An hour later, she says, the…
Cnews agenciesE CANAVERAL, Fla. (news agencies) — Sorry, North America. After winning the cosmic lottery with a pair of coast-to-coast total solar eclipses, now it’s Europe’s turn.But look skyward anyway Wednesday and, if you’re far enough north in the U.S. and Canada, you might savor a partial eclipse as the moon nibbles away at the sun.Totality will begin near the North Pole, then streak southward across Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a patch of Portugal. Daytime darkness won’t last more than a couple minutes at best — shrimpy compared with North America’s epic 2024 eclipse — but it is continental Europe’s…
BBCLeft to right: Ricky Gervais as David Brent, Martin Freeman as Tim, MacKenzie Crook as Gareth and Lucy Davis as Dawn in The OfficeLucy Davis, who played Dawn Tinsley in the original UK version of The Office, has revealed she has “incurable” breast cancer.Davis, the daughter of comedian Jasper Carrott, appeared frequently as the sympathetic and witty office receptionist in the groundbreaking mockumentary, from 2001 to 2003.A post from the 53-year-old actress on Instagram on Tuesday said: “I wanted to share something with you all that I’ve kept to myself for a while but for various reasons would like to…
BBC News MundoAt the scene of the rescue, workers and volunteers hold their hands in air in a symbol for silence, allowing survivors to be heard Efraín Gallego does not lose faith that his brother will be found alive, although when he speaks about him, trapped beneath the rubble of a building, his voice breaks and he swallows hard until he regains his composure.”You feel anguish. Every time there is an alert about someone being alive, hope is reborn that we will find him,” Gallego tells me emotionally.His 80-year-old brother was buried along with his wife when the Torres del…
Watch: Was Donald Trump smuggled out of Air Force One in a catering truck?On 8 July, US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in plain sight of television cameras as he departed the Nato summit in Turkey.But when the mighty Boeing aircraft left Ankara, the president had reportedly already been secretly spirited away via a catering truck to a C-32A, a military version of the Boeing 757, which flew the president to RAF Mildenhall in the UK.Those left on board were unwitting decoys and had no indication that Trump was no longer travelling with them. But deception of this…
US Central CommandCentcom says its helicopter fired two hellfire missiles on the Panama-flagged shipThe US military says one of its helicopters has fired missiles to disable “the steering gear” of a cargo ship attempting to violate the US blockade of Iranian ports.In a statement, US Central Command (Centcom) says its MH-60 aircraft on Tuesday fired two hellfire missiles into the engine room of the Panama-flagged M/V Vela Nova vessel, as it attempted to transit the Gulf of Oman.Centcom said it acted after “the ship’s civilian crew ignored repeated warnings from American forces”. The vessel “is no longer transiting to Iran”,…
In shattered Cali, residents search for loved ones and signs of hopeMost deaths from the magnitude-7.4 quake were reported in Cali, Colombia’s third-most populous city, as crews search collapsed buildings for those still trapped.21 mins agoLatin America
ReutersPresident Donald Trump said a US Marine held in a Russian prison, whose health was reportedly in extremely poor condition, has been released.”After my discussions with President Vladimir Putin, Russia has agreed to release him, very much on a Humanitarian Basis,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that no prisoner swap took place.In 2022, Gilman, who is from Massachusetts, was arrested for allegedly kicking a police officer while aboard a train. He had recently been moved from prison to a civilian hospital in Russia after going into a catatonic-like state.Trump said the 32-year-old was on a flight back to the…
The map showing world’s division over InfantinoBBC Sport uses visuals to explore the support and opposition to Gianni Infantino’s leadership of Fifa from its members.6 hrs agoWorld Cup
While issuing an executive order on Monday aimed at getting states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well as their relationship to autism.The order recommends separating the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three separate single-disease shots and administering childhood vaccines at separate appointments whenever possible.But many public health experts expressed concern about the recommendations, saying that spacing out the shots could increase the risk that children would become infected with a vaccine-preventable disease before returning for another visit. They noted that childhood vaccines…