Category: World
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Hundreds of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta this weekend. Moroccan authorities fended them off this time — raising the same question as before about how much these events are decided at the fence.
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Houthi strikes killed at least eleven in the Yemeni port city of Mokha on Sunday, and an earlier drone salvo hit a Saudi refinery. Both targets are messages to the new Saudi-led maritime coalition.
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The White River has broken records set in the 1913 flood as Indiana counts at least six dead and 130,000 without power. What a broken century-old record actually means, and the pattern it fits.
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Seven to ten million Coptic Christians live in Egypt — the largest Christian community in the Middle East and one of the oldest anywhere. Where they come from, what makes them theologically distinct, and why coverage in English skips them.
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Eight years after the Myanmar military drove them out, roughly a million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps. Rations have been cut, arrivals continue, and a generation has grown up without ever seeing home.
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Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammal on earth — up to three million in a decade — hunted for scales made of the same material as human fingernails. Most people who see one for the first time have never heard of the species.
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The phrase gets used every week without much explanation. What a “shadow fleet” actually is, the five workarounds that make it work, and why breaking it is harder than seizing individual ships.
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The fourth global coral bleaching event is now the longest ever recorded, having affected reefs in 84 countries since early 2023. What bleaching is, why repeat events matter, and why the only real fix is atmospheric.
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Newly released Epstein files expose years of disturbing correspondence with one of Dubai’s most powerful businessmen, alongside efforts to gain access to senior members of the UAE royal establishment. The latest release of Jeffrey Epstein files has drawn fresh scrutiny to his connections in the United Arab Emirates, revealing a disturbing combination of sexually explicit…
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A viral claim says HAARP caused the Flores earthquake, pointing to “square” clouds as evidence. The claim is false — by roughly twelve orders of magnitude. Why the same story attaches to every large disaster.