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The State Department issued a travel advisory for Americans planning to visit the Dominican Republic, a top Caribbean destination, due to an increase in violent crime and sexual assaults. The advisory issued was a yellow flag-level two, urging travelers to “exercise increased caution” while heading to this Caribbean hotspot. “Violent crime, including armed robbery, homicide, …
Shell, which is aiming to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050, said it was concerned by what it described as a “short-sighted” decision. Mike Kemp | In Pictures | Getty Images Britain’s advertising regulator has banned an ad campaign promoting the green initiatives of Shell, saying the marketing of the oil giant’s lower emissions …
The past few months have been bleak for many Arabs as they witness the restoration of old, authoritarian regimes in a region that was once full of hope. The end of the Arab Spring has been predicted many times before, and it seems that the last remnants of hope have been crushed. Tunisia, which started …
Hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine could lose access to drinking water after a major dam was attacked and effectively destroyed in a Russian-controlled region of southern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The sheer magnitude of the catastrophe is becoming clear as water continues to cascade through the breached wall of the collapsed Nova …
China is escalating its routine harassment in the Taiwan Strait and has taken aggressive new actions. This comes at a low point in diplomatic relations between Beijing and Washington and U.S. officials and experts say confrontations between Chinese and American military vehicles are unavoidable. A Chinese warship overtook a U.S. destroyer earlier this week in …
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish grandmother has given birth to her 20th child in Jerusalem, but she still has a way to go before she beats the Guinness World Record. The unnamed 42-year-old was rushed to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem after going into labour on Wednesday. Nurses were left shocked when the woman revealed she …
KHERSON, Ukraine — Oleksiy Kolesnik arrived on dry land, trembling and weak, after being rescued from his flooded living room where he had spent the predawn sitting on top of a cabinet. “The water came really quickly,” said Mr. Kolesnik. Fetid, coffee-colored floodwaters, surrounded Kherson, the regional capital, and rescuers had to completely evacuate a neighborhood that …
Terrafirma’s Kevin Ferrer on a stretcher after injuring achilles. –PBA IMAGES An Achilles injury sustained by Kevin Ferrer in the first half marred Terrafirma’s 104-92 victory over Reference
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is going to the hospital Wednesday for intestinal surgery, two years after he had 33 centimeters (13 inches) of his colon removed because of an inflammation and narrowing of the large intestine. The Vatican said Francis, 86, would be put under general anesthesia and would be hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli …