Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivor Who Met Obama Dies At 88
Shigeaki Mori, who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as an eight-year-old boy and spent decades afterwards recovering the names of those the blast erased, has died at 88. He passed away in a Hiroshima hospital on March 14, the Japanese news agency Jiji Press reported Tuesday. Mori was knocked unconscious by the force of […]
Twin Explosions In Maiduguri Leave 23 Nigerians Dead
Three suicide bombers struck crowded locations across Maiduguri within minutes of each other on Monday night, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 in one of the deadliest attacks on the capital of Nigeria’s Borno State in years — and in a city that had come to be regarded as a rare […]
Cuban Govt Beckons Exiles With Investment ‘Open Door’ Pledge
Cuba has thrown open its economy to the exile community that has spent decades lobbying for its isolation, inviting Cuban Americans and other nationals living abroad to own and invest in businesses on the island in a policy shift that signals Havana’s desperation to arrest an economic collapse — and its willingness to make concessions […]
Iran’s Neighbors Prepare As War Looms, Refugee Wave Feared
Eighteen days into the US-Israeli war on Iran, the conflict’s next crisis is taking shape not on the battlefield but along the country’s borders, where aid agencies and neighbouring governments are bracing for a refugee emergency that analysts warn could dwarf anything the modern world has seen. More than 3.2 million people have already been […]
NYC Mayor Pushes 15 Mph School Zone Speed Cap Citywide
New York City will slash speed limits to 15 miles per hour outside every eligible school in the five boroughs before the end of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first term, the administration announced Monday, deploying a state law named after a 12-year-old Brooklyn boy killed by a speeding driver more than a decade ago. The plan […]
Twitter Lawsuit Alleging Musk Tanked Stock Nears End
Elon Musk faces the final stretch of a civil fraud trial in San Francisco on Tuesday, when closing arguments will put before a jury the question of whether the world’s richest man systematically deceived Twitter shareholders as he manoeuvred to escape a $44 billion acquisition deal he had agreed to and then tried to abandon. […]
Graft Fighter Named Madagascar PM Days After Cabinet Ouster
Madagascar’s military ruler has picked the country’s top anti-corruption official to lead his government, installing a man whose career has been built on tracking dirty money as the new face of a transition that has struggled to translate its reform promises into tangible change. Colonel Michael Randrianirina announced Sunday that Mamitiana Rajaonarison, who has headed […]
Brooklyn Blaze Injures Six: Two Kids, Two Firefighters Hurt
A three-story home in the Canarsie neighbourhood of Brooklyn erupted in fire before dawn Sunday, forcing residents to leap from rear windows to escape the flames and leaving six people injured, including two children and two firefighters. The blaze broke out around 3 a.m. on Conklin Avenue, tearing through the building with enough ferocity that […]
‘Sinners’ Performance Earns Michael B. Jordan Actor Oscar
Michael B. Jordan won the Best Actor Oscar on Sunday for his dual performance in “Sinners,” becoming the fifth Black man to claim Hollywood’s most coveted acting prize and ending a long wait for an award that his career had long seemed to be building toward. Jordan, 39, took the Academy Award at the 98th […]
Thai Crew Of 20 Back Home Following Gulf Vessel Attack
Twenty Thai sailors who escaped an Iranian attack on their cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz landed in Bangkok on Monday, reuniting with families who had spent days in anguish waiting for news — while three of their colleagues remain unaccounted for aboard the damaged ship. The crew members of the bulk carrier Mayuree […]
Iran Unwilling To Strike War-End Deal, Trump Claims
Three weeks into a war that has reshaped the Middle East, the United States and Iran are offering flatly contradictory accounts of whether they are talking to each other at all — a dispute that may itself reveal more about the conflict’s trajectory than either side intends. Donald Trump said Sunday that Washington was in […]
Iran’s Path To Washington — Part 1
Part 1—From Cold Hostility To Open Conflict How decades of distrust, pressure, and proxy confrontation gave way to direct regional war The historical roots of the present Iran–United States–Israel crisis do not lie in a single grievance, treaty dispute, or military incident. They lie in the slow accumulation of mutually reinforcing fears: fear in Tehran […]