Roba Abu Jibba looked shell-shocked as the doctor delivered his news: She couldn’t have the operation she desperately wanted. She nervously scrunched the fabric of her dress, fighting off the tears that began flooding her one remaining eye. The 19-year-old Palestinian woman had pinned all her hopes on getting a prosthetic eye after suffering life-changing injuries in an Israeli strike ...
Kenyan President William Ruto said Wednesday that he will not sign a controversial finance bill, backing down in the face of mass protests that swept the country and reportedly left at least 23 people dead. “Having reflected on the continuing conversation regarding the content of the finance bill 2024, and listening keenly to the people of Kenya who have said ...
Bolivia’s President Luis Arce denounced the “irregular mobilization of certain units of the Bolivian military” in La Paz on Wednesday in a post on X amid claims that the army was mounting a coup. “You need to respect democracy,” he said. Military tanks were reportedly positioned around a main square in La Paz where the national executive and legislative offices ...
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has been sentenced to 45 years in prison and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses. He has previously denied the charges against him and at his sentencing on Wednesday insisted that he is innocent and was “wrongly and unjustly accused.” In March, a jury in New York found Hernandez ...
The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted an al Qaeda-linked leader of crimes against humanity and war crimes that took place in Timbuktu, northern Mali. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud, who was a senior member of the Islamic Police, was recruited by al Qaeda leaders, the ICC said in a statement. The Islamic Police played a “pivotal ...
NASA has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX permission to destroy the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030. The space station has been continually occupied since 2000 by astronauts doing more than 3,300 scientific experiments above our heads. But the countries operating the ISS only agreed to run it until 2030 at the latest. Since 1998, the US, Russia, Japan, Europe and ...
Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to take shelter last night after a Russian satellite broke into more than 100 pieces. The nine astronauts living on the space station were told to shelter in their respective spacecraft, according to NASA, after the debris was spotted. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams boarded their Starliner spacecraft, the Boeing-built ...
It is a grim time to be a member of the news media. Many people (though presumably few here at The Washington Post) see this as karma, if not good news: They view the media as having failed at its basic task of informing the public. That sentiment is particularly acute in the realm of political coverage. Donald Trump has ...
The reasons Donald Trump appears to have a slight edge in the same matchup with President Biden that he lost just four years ago are many and complicated. But sometimes a poll comes along and crystallizes one of the big ones. Such is the case with a new survey from Quinnipiac University released on the eve of the first debate ...
The Supreme Court would allow emergency abortion care in Idaho for now despite the state’s restrictions on the procedure, according to a copy of a not-yet-released opinion posted by Bloomberg Law after it briefly appeared on the court’s website Wednesday. The decision, which has not been announced, would mean that while litigation makes its way through the courts, hospitals could ...