Government media reported that Hurricane Bavi made landfall in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang late Saturday night. More than 1.7 million people were evacuated as the country prepared for Bavi, which is expected to move northwest after landfall, with its intensity gradually weakening. Bavi had previously lashed Japan’s southern islands with heavy rains and strong … Read more
Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Saturday vowed revenge for the US-Israeli killing of his father and predecessor, hours after President Donald Trump warned against any attempt to assassinate him. Source link
An islandwide blackout struck Cuba on Friday for the second time this week as the nation of nearly 10 million people grappled with a crumbling power grid and fuel shortages stemming from a US energy blockade. Source link
Belgian rider Tim Merlier secured his second straight stage victory at the Tour de France on Saturday, dominating a bunch sprint finish in the eighth stage. Source link
Russian attacks on Ukraine killed six people, including a child, and wounded dozens more, according to local officials on Saturday. Moscow launched more than 120 drones and 12 missiles during the night, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, putting his country’s air defense system under strain. Source link
When Bernd Wagner walks past the headquarters of his new company, he can barely contain his excitement. He starts rattling off figures like “seven times more steel than was used to build the Eiffel Tower” or “cables stretching all the way to Naples.” Wagner Schwarz is responsible for cloud business and sales at Digits. All … Read more
Every summer since 2009, residents of a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank have gathered for a kite festival. The event is held on land that they say has been partly lost since a settlement was established in 1983. The festival, while primarily for children, carries a “political message”, according to one of its … Read more
At least 11 people, including a child, were injured after Russia launched an overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv early Saturday, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Source link
South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams died at the age of 25, according to the country’s sports ministry on Saturday. Officials have not disclosed a cause of death for the football player who represented his country in the ongoing World Cup. Police opened an investigation after Adams’ body was found in a suburb in central Cape … Read more
Hundreds of firefighters, backed by helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, struggled on Saturday to contain one of Spain’s deadliest wildfires, which has killed at least 12 people. “We are not prepared enough for the conditions that fuel these fires,” says our guest Jean-Pascal Van Ypersele, Professor of Climatology at the Catholic University of Louvain. Source link