As fighting continued to flare along the Russia-Ukraine border on Saturday, civilians fleeing for their lives stepped out of evacuation vans one by one, some on unsteady legs. An older woman struggled with two large, confused dogs. A boy clutched his birth certificate, laminated and worn. An older couple grumbled at each other about who…
Heavy rains wreak havoc in southern Brazil, leaving many homeless and raising fears of further chaos. Source link
Britain’s economy is still a ‘mixed’ picture. In the first three months of the year, economic growth was driven by the services sector, which expanded for the first time in a year, statistics agency said. Transport services, legal services and scientific research all grew strongly, but services that include hotels and restaurants fell slightly, and…
Their mother is a twin – her twin brother is in the ward taking photos of the new arrivals, his nephew and niece. Surrounding the bed are the babies’ grandmother, who is herself a twin, and their great-grandmother, who has given birth to two sets of twins. Source link
President Biden paused an arms shipment to Israel last week to prevent the U.S.-made weapons from being used in a long-threatened assault on the city of Rafah, administration officials said on Tuesday night, a sign of the growing rift between the United States and Israel over the conduct of the war. The president withheld 1,800…