A drone slammed into a high-rise apartment building a few miles from the Kremlin on Monday, a rare attack on Moscow that came as Ukraine has expanded its long-range strikes inside Russia. The breach of air defenses in the Russian capital occurred five days before the annual Victory Day parade, a major event on Red…
The first malaria treatment for babies has been approved by the World Health Organization, opening the door to widespread use around the globe. In parts of Africa, up to 18% of children under six months will be infected with malaria, but there has historically been no safe treatment for the smallest of them. There were…
May Day events took place across the United States in major cities like Seattle, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Chicago and Washington DC. More than a thousand protesters in the Los Angeles May Day Coalition marched through the streets of the city’s downtown in support of workers’ rights. Meanwhile in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani praised…
After a year of wrangling, the Scottish whisky industry has finally gotten what it wants — the elimination of tariffs on its sales to the United States. Makers of Scotch whisky have been losing millions of pounds a week since a 10 percent tariff was imposed on exports to the United States, according to the…
A rare joint offensive by Tuareg separatists and militants linked to Al Qaeda in Mali over the weekend represented a major setback for the West African country’s military regime and its Russian paramilitary partners. No death toll has been confirmed by the two groups that claimed responsibility for the attacks: JNIM, the Qaeda-linked group; and…
A major new study published in Nature Health has found a strong connection between environmental exposure to agricultural pesticides and an increased risk of cancer. By combining environmental monitoring, national cancer registry data, and biological research, scientists from the IRD, Institut Pasteur, University of Toulouse, and the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) in Peru…
Many residents of Bamako awoke on Saturday to a huge boom. “At about 5 a.m., we heard a giant explosion that made our houses shake,” said a businessman in Bamako who asked to be identified only by his first name, Abdoulaye, for security reasons. “We were really scared.” The government put out an early, short…
Mike White’s sun-soaked satire The White Lotus is gearing up for its return—in a new location, at a new hotel and with a fresh cast, of course. Here’s absolutely everything we know so far about The White Lotus’s upcoming fourth season. Where will The White Lotus Season 4 be set? This, perhaps more than anything…
The Trump administration moved Thursday to reclassify cannabis under federal law, which could significantly expand scientific research into the drug’s medical uses. The change would not legalize the drug at the federal level, but shift cannabis from its current status as a Schedule I substance to Schedule III under the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s controlled…
Antonio Joaquim was 67-years-old when his family cast him out of his home for refusing to seek a “kimbanda,” a traditional healer-diviner figure prevalent in Angolan society, to treat his son who had fallen ill. After his son died, Joaquim was saddled with blame and accused of possessing an evil spirit that led to his son’s…
