Why this French island in the Pacific is being roiled by violence over a vote held 10,000 miles away
Deadly violence on the French island of New Caledonia erupted for a third day Wednesday, with armed clashes between protesters, militias and police, and buildings and cars set on fire in the capital of the South Pacific archipelago. At least three people have been shot dead during the unrest, which is considered the worst since the 1980s, and prompted authorities to ...
Hype over autonomous vehicles has sometimes outpaced reality. For years, forecasters have predicted that driverless cars, which would allow the average commuter to snooze or watch Netflix on their way into the office, were just around the corner. Many experts have tempered their expectations. Widespread implementation of autonomous technology won’t be realized within the next decade, according to an analysis released in ...
French authorities launched a manhunt on Tuesday after gunmen ambushed a prison convoy in Normandy to break out an inmate, killing two guards and wounding three others. The violent incident, extremely rare for that part of northern France, took place as the vehicle was transporting a prisoner from court to a nearby prison, French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said. Dupond-Moretti ...
A deadly heat wave in Gaza in April, which saw punishing temperatures worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, was made hotter and more likely by the human-caused climate crisis, according to an analysis published Tuesday. Gaza was not alone. Several heat waves spanning a vast area of the Asian continent last month during the world’s hottest April on record were made more ...
The world will have to wait at least another week before the highly anticipated first crewed mission of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The launch was expected on May 17 after a previous delay, but teams found a small helium leak in the service module of the spacecraft, according to a release from Boeing. Starliner teams traced the leak to a flange ...
An outbreak of a waterborne disease in Devon has prompted urgent warnings for residents to boil their tap water. At least 22 cases of cryptosporidiosis disease have been confirmed in and around the town of Brixham in South West England. But what is the parasite that is making people sick, what are the symptoms of being infected with it and how ...
Temu is facing a fresh legal complaint filed by 17 companies in the European Union. The Chinese online retailer is accused of “failing to protect consumers” and “using manipulative practices which are illegal under recent EU legislation”, according to consumer group BEUC. Temu was only launched in September 2022, but has quickly become one of the most popular online marketplaces ...
Do you have a very wealthy friend who is considering spending gobs of money trying to get elected to political office? You might want to show them the results of the Maryland Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday — and, of course, this post. Rep. David Trone (D-Md.) spent $62 million of his own money on the race, only to lose ...
A Jewish American Biden political appointee resigned from her post at the Interior Department on Wednesday, saying she could no longer work for the administration because of President Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war in Gaza. Lily Greenberg Call, special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department, cited her Jewish upbringing and ties to Israel in her ...
When Donald Trump first ran for president in 2015, he promised that he would implement a process for deporting the 11 million residents of the United States who are here without authorization. There would be a “deportation force,” he said, one that leveraged local law enforcement to identify and expel undocumented immigrants. He offered words of praise for the deportation ...