A rare white grizzly was killed after being struck by a vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway, about 12 hours after her two bear cubs died after being hit by a car on the same roadway, Parks Canada officials said on Tuesday. Park officials received a report that the two cubs were struck and killed early Thursday morning. On the evening …
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Benny Gantz, an Israeli War Cabinet member, resigns from government over lack of plan for postwar Gaza
A member of Israel’s three-man War Cabinet announced his resignation on Sunday over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza. Benny Gantz, a popular former centrist military chief and one of the prime minister’s most prominent critics, joined Netanyahu’s government shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in a show of unity. His presence also boosted Israel’s …
Read More »Who are the 4 hostages rescued by Israeli forces from captivity in Gaza?
Four Israeli hostages taken by Hamas militants from a music festival during the group’sOct. 7 terrorist attackwere rescued alive Saturday during a raid on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrey Kozlov, 27, and 41-year-old Shlomi Ziv were all kidnapped at the Nova music festival. They were recovered after the IDF announced it …
Read More »Where things stand on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal as Blinken calls some Hamas demands unworkable
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that some changes Hamas wants to the current Gaza cease-fire proposal are unworkable, accusing the group of dragging its heels and prolonging the suffering of the Palestinian people. His remarks came a day after Hamas submitted its formal response to the U.S.-backed proposal, stressing “the necessity to completely stop the ongoing aggression …
Read More »U.S.-made bomb used in Israeli strike on Rafah that killed dozens, munitions experts say
Analysis of images of shrapnel gathered at the scene of an Israeli strike in Rafah on Sunday showed evidence of a bomb that was a U.S.-made GBU-39, two munitions experts told CBS News. Dozens of Palestinians were killed in the strike and subsequent fires. “I instantly knew the housing was a GBU,” Trevor Ball, who worked as an ordnance disposal …
Read More »Ancient remains of 28 horses found in France. Were they killed in battle or sacrificed?
An archaeological dig in France uncovered over two dozen dead horses and left researchers with a puzzling mystery. The excavation, located in Villedieu-sur-Indre in Central France, uncovered several buildings, pits, ditches and even a pathway from the early Middle Ages, according to a news release from the country’s National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research. The finds included nine pits containing …
Read More »Delhi temperature may break record for highest ever in India: 126.1 degrees
A temperature reading collected in Delhi, India’s capital territory, may have broken national records as the country grapples with a blistering heat wave. The reading — 52.9 degrees Celsius or 126.1 degrees Fahrenheit — was preliminary and technically an outlier compared with others taken in Delhi on the same day, officials said. But, if confirmed, it would be the highest …
Read More »Person dies after falling into engine of departing passenger jet at Amsterdam airport
A person died Wednesday after falling into the spinning turbine blades of a departing passenger jet at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, officials said. The death occurred on the apron outside the busy hub’s terminal as a KLM flight was ready to depart for Billund in Denmark. “An… incident took place at Schiphol today during which a person ended up in a …
Read More »North Korea flies hundreds of balloons full of trash over South Korea
North Korea flew hundreds of trash-carrying balloons toward South Korea in one of its most bizarre provocations against its rival in years, prompting the South’s military to mobilize chemical and explosive response teams to recover objects and debris in different parts of the country. The ballooning campaign came as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged his military scientists to …
Read More »Worlds first wooden satellite built by Japanese researchers
Tokyo — The world’s first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft is scheduled to be carried into space off on a SpaceX rocket in September. Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures four inches. The creators expect the wooden material will …
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