August 2024
Switzerland Offers Reward for Ideas to Remove Old Bombs From Its Lakes
Switzerland is offering $58,000 in prize money for ideas to remove munitions from the depths, in case they start polluting. The catch: The cure can’t be worse than the problem.
Tech Entrepreneur Mike Lynch Among 6 Missing After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily
Fifteen other people were rescued. Expert divers were called in to carry out search operations in the deep water. Among the missing was a British software mogul, Mike Lynch.
Tech Entrepreneur Mike Lynch Among 6 Missing After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily
Fifteen other people were rescued. Expert divers were called in to carry out search operations in the deep water. Among the missing was a British software mogul, Mike Lynch.
Middle East Crisis: Blinken Says Talks Are ‘Maybe the Last’ Chance for Gaza Cease-Fire
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel. Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for a suicide blast in Tel Aviv that injured one person.
Ukraine Attacks Bridges in Russia’s Kursk Region, Aiming to Encircle Troops
The attacks look to destroy or damage crossings over a river in the Kursk region that are Russian forces’ only routes for resupply or retreat, military analysts say.
Ukraine Says Its Incursion Will Bring Peace. Putin’s Plans May Differ.
President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to hold Russian territory as leverage in future talks. In Moscow, many doubt the strategy.
Survivors of Doomsday Starvation Cult Testify Against Pastor and 93 Associates
An evangelical pastor in Kenya ordered his flock to shun education and medicine and starve their children to death in order to meet Jesus, witnesses in a manslaughter trial said.
A Crackdown in Kuwait After a Fatal Fire Is Hurting Migrant Laborers
After the blaze killed 49 migrant workers, a government crackdown focused on building violations — bypassing deeper problems that leave migrants with low wages and unsafe housing across the oil-rich Gulf.
Russians Fleeing Ukraine’s Advance Border Regions Rush to Kursk
In the regional capital, those who left their homes as Ukrainian forces tore into western Russia are uncertain whether they can ever return to their old lives.
Russians Fleeing Ukraine’s Advance Border Regions Rush to Kursk
In the regional capital, those who left their homes as Ukrainian forces tore into western Russia are uncertain whether they can ever return to their old lives.