In November, Israeli flags suddenly appeared beside a highway in the Palestinian West Bank. More than 1,000, placed about 30 yards apart on both sides of the road, stretching for roughly 10 miles. They were planted south of Nablus, close to Palestinian villages regularly targeted by extremist Israeli settlers. I saw the flags on my…
Sasha Mezhevoy was five years old when she, her older brother and sister were sent to an orphanage in Moscow. They were told they were going to be adopted by a Russian family. But they were not orphans. They were Ukrainian children who had been forcibly removed from their father. Sasha grew up in Mariupol,…
Mexican lawmakers have approved a package of new tariffs, impacting hundreds of products, many of which come from China. The measures, which President Claudia Sheinbaum has said are needed to boost domestic production, were passed by the Mexican Senate on Wednesday. The levies are set to take effect on 1 January 2026 and will apply…
Alix HattenstoneBBC Local Bournemouth University The Pin Wreck is an Admiralty Mooring Lighter believed to have sunk in 1903 off the Dorset coast A mysterious shipwreck, a colourful cathedral and a “birthplace of the communication age” are among the remarkable places in England that have been granted special protection this year. Historic England has added…
Kayla Epsteinand Tiffany Wertheimer Watch: Moment Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado appears on Oslo balcony Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, who has been in hiding for months, has told the BBC that she knows “exactly the risks” she’s taking by travelling to Norway to collect her Nobel Peace Prize. Machado appeared in…
The painting that introduced “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago — and was reproduced in an iconic movie poster — sold at auction on Wednesday for $3.875 million. The acrylic and airbrush painting by the artist and movie poster designer Tom Jung first appeared in newspaper advertisements on May 13, 1977, a…
Pam Bondi posts footage of oil tanker seizure Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has released footage of the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, on X.com: Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a…
Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson has declared an emergency because of record-breaking flooding. By the end of Thursday, there will be at least 300 members of the National Guard here to help with rescues and recovery. You can watch the governor’s declaration here. At 4:30 p.m., Ferguson wrote on X.com that 100,000 Washingtonians could be…
After spending two weeks running around Japan, I realized there are a few VERY avoidable mistakes people make on their first trip here. Some of these I learned the hard way, some came from watching other tourists spiral in real time, and a few came from friends who visited in other seasons and warned me…
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