Grounded gondolas and dry canals have sapped the romantic energy out of Venice, disappointing tourists in one of Italy‘s most visited cities. A general view of a dry canal for low tide on February 16, 2023, in Venice, Italy. Getty Images Weeks of dry winter weather and no rain have turned Venice’s iconic waterways into
China is “deeply worried” about the escalation of the Ukraine conflict and the possibility of the situation spiraling out of control, China’s foreign minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday. Beijing, which last year struck a “no limits” partnership with Moscow, has refrained from condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The United States has warned of consequences
A top Russian defence official has been found dead after apparently falling from the 16th floor of a high-rise apartment in St. Petersburg on Wednesday, Russian media outlets reported. At around 8 a.m., the body of a woman was found by police on the sidewalk in front of a tower block in the Kalininsky district.
China said Wednesday it will take measures against U.S. entities related to the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the American East Coast. At a daily briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin gave no details and did not identify the targets of the measures.China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that
Duangpetch Promthep, one of 12 boys rescued from a cave in Thailand in 2018, has died while attending school in the U.K. He was just 17 years old. Promthep was found unconscious in his dorm room in Leicestershire on Sunday, the BBC reported. He was rushed to Kettering General Hospital, where he died on Tuesday.Leicestershire
A U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden, believed to be the same one tracked over Montana and monitored by the government beginning the night before, the Pentagon said. It was the fourth object shot out of the sky by U.S. fighter jets
The death toll in Turkey and Syria from the earthquake that struck five days ago has surpassed 25,000. Turkey’s president on Saturday raised the death toll in his country to 21,848, while in Syria, the reported number of dead was 3,553 in government and rebel-held areas.Some 80,104 people have been injured in Turkey alone, President Recep Tayyip
The United States shot down a “high-altitude” object as it flew over Alaska near the northern Canadian border on Friday, White House and Pentagon officials confirmed amid ongoing concerns over Chinese surveillance balloons flying over North America. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby would not say if the object was a balloon or what entity
As rescue teams work around the clock to locate survivors and victims of Sunday’s devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria, aerial surveaillance photos of two Turkish towns give perspective to the widespread damage and emergency relief efforts underway. The photos, captured by Maxar Technologies, show the towns of Islahiye and Nurdagi.Our latest images
With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled through the night in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic earthquake. The death toll rose Wednesday to more than 11,000 in the deadliest quake worldwide in more than a decade. Amid calls