Thousands of people have experienced health effects like cancer, including many who have died, after breathing in hazardous contaminants after the Twin Towers collapsed. Speaking alongside Mamdani at Tuesday’s news conference, TV host and 9/11 survivor advocate Jon Stewart said the new files show the city knew by October 2001 – a month after the…
Abu Dhabi/Tehran — Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid Al-Ansari has said the Iran-US war has shown that Gulf Arab states cannot rely solely on strategic partnership with Washington for their security. Speaking at a panel during the Heil Forum in Abu Dhabi, he said the presence of global powers in the region and the strategic…
The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Maj Gen Turki al-Maliki, said the Houthi drone and missile attacks targeted civilian and economic sites in the cities of Abha, Khamis Mushait, Jazan and Najran, and that women and children were among the injured. An energy ministry statement cited an official source as saying that injuries…
Four paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France. Two thieves broke into the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer on Tuesday morning but dropped two of the paintings in the institution’s garden as they made their escape, local Mayor Bryan Masson said. “Attacking the Renoir Museum…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is considering a policy that would subsidize married couples for childcare, according to a report by The New York Times. Under the draft proposal, couples within certain income brackets would qualify for payments if one spouse works at least 35 hours a week while the other stays home with the…
It then travelled through a perimeter fence and collided with a Toyota Corolla, coming to rest about 1,300ft (394m) beyond the runway. Homendy described the crash scene as “devastating”, with debris from the aircraft, vehicles and airport fencing scattered across the area. “It’s hard to see, and I’m sure very difficult for the first responders…
“I came because it makes the children feel their parents are with them, that they are safe, it gives them a kind of security,” said Haroon Bishara, whose boys are in the first and second grades. “We fear for our children more this year,” he told me. “We know the situation is not safe at…
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck “several Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites across southern Lebanon” overnight after the group’s fighters launched two explosive drones towards Israeli troops operating in the Ali al-Taher ridge area, which is just south of Kfar Roummane and inside the Israeli-declared “security zone”. “Additionally, the IDF struck several terrorists who…
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is “very, very close” to taking power in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, its deputy parliamentary leader has told the BBC, after a historic victory in elections there. Sunday’s preliminary results show it fell three seats short of an outright majority, with 43.8% of the vote. It is now…
Gilad Kariv, a Knesset member from Israel’s opposition Democrats party, has called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s removal, describing it as “essential for the survival of Israeli society,” accusing him of “complete incompetence” in national security matters and of avoiding accountability over military investigations following Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attacks; in a statement on X,…
