Israeli army reservist Zach Bergerson felt he had to take action when he saw fellow soldiers having to rely on their eyes and ears to detect swarms of enemy drones overhead. So the high-tech professional, 36, developed a wearable device that uses mobile phone technology to warn troops of aerial threats. Like other reservists, Bergerson has leveraged his civilian expertise and military […]
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King Charles is helping ‘reinvigorate’ shaken UK-France relations
Paul Kirby Europe digital editor BBC Few scenes convey British pomp and soft power more than the King and Queen in a carriage procession through the picturesque streets of Windsor. They are being joined on Tuesday by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron for the first state visit by a French president since 2008, and the first by a European Union leader since Brexit. […]
Death toll hits 96 in Texas flash floods, campers still missing
Search teams plodded through muddy riverbanks and flew aircraft over flood-ravaged central Texas on Monday as hopes dimmed of finding survivors among dozens still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 96 lives, many of them children. Three days after a torrential predawn downpour transformed the Guadalupe River into a raging, killer torrent, a Christian girls’ summer camp devastated by […]
Trump upbeat on Gaza ceasefire talks as he hosts Netanyahu
Watch: Moment Benjamin Netanyahu hands Donald Trump nomination for Nobel Peace Prize US President Donald Trump has said he thinks talks to end the war in Gaza have been “going along very well”, as he hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC. Trump also expressed confidence that Hamas was willing to end the 21-month conflict. “They want to meet and […]
Israel says it struck Houthi ports and seized cargo ship in Yemen
Yang Tian & David Gritten BBC News Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images Israel says the Galaxy Leader, a ship previously hijacked by Houthi rebels, was among the targets The Israeli military says it has carried out air strikes on Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in response to repeated missile and drone attacks on Israel. The military said the targets were the Red Sea ports of […]
Two reported dead in Kenya as central Nairobi sealed off
Ian Wafula & Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi AFP via Getty Images Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in Nairobi At least two people have died of gunshot wounds after police opened fire during protests in Kenya, the latest in a wave of anti-government rallies that began last year. Dr Aron Sikuku, a medic at Eagle Nursing Home in Kangemi on […]
US professors take Trump’s immigration policies to court over pro-Palestinian activities
Listen to article Groups representing US university professors seeking to protect international students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy from being deported are set to do what no other litigants challenging the Trump administration’s hardline immigration agenda have done so far: Take it to trial. A two-week non-jury trial in the professors’ case scheduled to kick off on Monday in Boston marks a […]
Nine weeks of testimony that gripped a courtroom
Tiffanie Turnbull Reporting fromMorwell, Australia Watch: Australia’s mushroom murder case… in under two minutes For two years, the mystery of exactly what happened at Erin Patterson’s dining table has gripped the world. Five people sat down to eat lunch at her home in rural Australia on 29 July 2023. Within a week, three would be dead, a fourth would be fighting for […]
Death toll from Texas flooding mounts to 78
The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 78 on Sunday, including 28 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp continued, and fears of more flooding prompted evacuations of volunteer responders. Larry Leitha, sheriff of Kerr County in the Texas Hill Country, said 68 people had died in flooding in his county, the epicenter of […]