The US carried out airstrikes targeting two facilities linked to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria on Thursday, according to a statement from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, following a series of drone and rocket attacks against US forces in the region....
Mit einem Kugleschreiber notiert er Zahlen auf seine linke Handfäche. “Am ersten Tag”, sagt er, “starben vier Menschen. Am nächsten Tag elf. Dann neunzehn, dann neun, dann achtzehn. Die fremden Soldaten erschossen junge Männer, aber auch Frauen, Kinder und Alte.” Sein Blick wandert pber die Felder zur gelb verputzen...
Nun lässt eine Studie aufhorchen. Dieser zufolge widmete die «Tagesschau» 2022 etwa der Ohrfeige, die der Hollywoodstar Will Smith seinem Schauspielkollegen Chris Rock bei der Oscar-Verleihung verpasst hatte, einen 180 Sekunden langen Beitrag. Anschliessend folgte noch ein 145 Sekunden langer Bericht über die Preisverleihung...
South Korea’s constitutional court on Thursday narrowly upheld a law banning same-sex relations within the armed forces, citing a possible risk to the military’s combat readiness in a ruling criticised by activists as a setback for gay rights....
Iran’s Foreign Minster Hossein Amirabdollahian warned at the United Nations on Thursday that if Israel’s retaliation against Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip doesn’t end then the United States will “not be spared from this fire.”...
Hurricane Otis made landfall directly on Acapulco, Mexico, as a violent Category 5 storm on Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and causing extensive damage to the beach resort city.
What lies in wait for Israeli ground troops in Gaza, security sources say, is a Hamas tunnel network hundreds of kilometres long and up to 80 metres deep, described by one freed hostage as “a spider’s web” and by one expert as the “Viet Cong times 10”....
More than 11% of the world’s more than 2,000 billionaires have run for election or become politicians, according to a study highlighting the growing power and influence of the super-wealthy....
North Korea’s foreign ministry accused Israel of bombing a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Oct 17., saying it had openly committed a war crime “under the undisguised patronage of the United States”....