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Live Updates: Hurricane Melissa Turns Toward the Bahamas After Battering Cuba and Jamaica
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 17:51 Uhr
The storm weakened as it passed over Cuba and moved toward the Bahamas with 100 m.p.h. winds. In Jamaica, 70 percent of the country is without power, hampering damage assessments. -
Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill at Least 100, Local Health Officials Say
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 17:18 Uhr
After what appeared to be the deadliest day since a truce deal was agreed on this month, Israel said the cease-fire had resumed. -
The Netherlands’ Election Is a Referendum on the Far Right
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 14:01 Uhr
Geert Wilders and his far-right party blew up the Dutch governing coalition this year. Will that cost their party seats in Parliament? -
How the Opium War Still Shapes Xi Jinping’s Trade Clash With Trump
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 15:08 Uhr
China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat but made him a national hero. -
When Caregiving Makes Women Ill
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 10:43 Uhr
Eastern Europeans have migrated in droves to take care of Italy’s aged and infirm. Then they started getting sick, with an ailment dubbed ‘Italy syndrome.’ -
Putin Announces Test of Tsunami-Making Nuclear Weapon
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 16:50 Uhr
The test comes days after President Vladimir V. Putin announced the previous trial of another Russian nuclear weapon.
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Violent protests erupt as Tanzanian president nears election victory
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 15:15 Uhr
Government critics abducted, killed or arrested in run-up to vote as global monitor records internet blackout
Violent demonstrations broke out in Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, as the country held an election on Wednesday.
Samia Suluhu Hassan, the president, is expected to strengthen her grip on the country against the backdrop of rapidly intensifying repression and the exclusion of opponents from the presidential contest.
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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 02:14 Uhr
Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’
The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency, Soyinka revealed on Tuesday.
“I want to assure the consulate … that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, told a news conference.
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Mass killings reported in Sudanese city seized by paramilitary group
Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2025 18:10 Uhr
Rapid Support Forces accused of killing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians in El Fasher in recent days
Reports of ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities are emerging from El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city in Sudan’s western Darfur region over the weekend.
Video released by local activists showed a fighter known for executing civilians in RSF-controlled areas shooting a group of unarmed civilians sitting on the ground at point-blank range.
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UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told
Dienstag, 28. Oktober 2025 06:00 Uhr
Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF group
British military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.
UK-manufactured small-arms target systems and British-made engines for armoured personnel carriers have been recovered from combat sites in a conflict that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe.
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Alassane Ouattara wins landslide fourth term as Ivory Coast’s president
Montag, 27. Oktober 2025 20:48 Uhr
Low turnout said to have made for most peaceful election in years, as 83-year-old accused of clampdown on dissent wins 89.77% of vote
Alassane Ouattara has been declared the winner of the presidential election in Ivory Coast by a landslide.
According to provisional results announced by the Independent Electoral Commission (CIE) on Monday evening, the 83-year-old won a fourth term as head of the west African country with 89.77% or 3.75m votes.
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Hurricane Melissa live updates: dozens reported dead in Haiti after river flooded by hurricane bursts banks
Mittwoch, 29. Oktober 2025 17:31 Uhr
Mayor of a southern Haitian coastal town ‘overwhelmed by the situation’ as he pleads for government support
As Cuba prepares for the storm to make landfall any minute, officials in Jamaica are preparing to assess the damage on Wednesday.
A video shared by the Jamaican Constabulary Force shows officers surveying extensive destruction in Black River, close to where Hurricane Melissa made landfall on Tuesday as a Category 5 storm.
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Un periodista que viajó a Milán para cubrir el Valencia-Atalanta, positivo por coronavirus
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 16:13 Uhr
Se trata del segundo caso confirmado en la comunidad y el decimoquinto en España desde el lunes -
Mapa de la expansión y claves para entender el coronavirus de Wuhan
Sonntag, 1. März 2020 14:16 Uhr
Qué es, cómo se transmite, cuál es la población más vulnerable y dimensiones del contagio en el mundo -
El turismo italiano se resiente; España mira expectante
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 14:26 Uhr
La patronal hotelera del área de Venecia describe un sector “al borde del colapso” -
“La magnitud del problema del coronavirus no será diferente a una gripe”
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 18:26 Uhr
Ángel Gil de Miguel, catedrático de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, lanza un mensaje de tranquilidad -
Seis italianos encerrados por partida doble
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 12:36 Uhr
Los compañeros de viaje de los cuatro positivos en Canarias están aislados del resto en el hotel en cuarentena -
Trump nombra al vicepresidente Pence a cargo de la crisis del coronavirus
Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2020 18:26 Uhr
El CDC confirma el primer caso de origen desconocido en Northern California. El infectado no ha viajado recientemente al extranjero ni ha tenido contacto con un caso confirmado
