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Rapidly intensifying hurricanes are some of the most frightening and destructive types of extreme weather. Predicting them has been notoriously difficult for forecasters who have been unable to fully understand why some tropical storms or tropical depressions that seem commonplace can suddenly turn…

              /Maxine Lowy/ Through a yellowish-orange crack, a sepia-tinted eye from the past unblinkingly observes the scene below. It gazes down at today’s generation of this university world, cell phones in their hands, and…

As people got off work on Thursday evening, October 19, the street in front of the Federal Building in San Francisco swelled with a spirited crowd chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” An ocean of…

President Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday in an unprecedented show of support for the country following last week’s surprise attack by Hamas that killed over 1,400 Israelis, including many civilians. The United States continues to rush ammunition, air defenses…

CAIRO, October 18. /TASS/ Never before, in any other conflict that broke out between the Palestinians and the Israelis, was this hospital ever under attack,” he said All victims of Tuesday’s deadly strike on a public hospital in the Gaza…

The path to peace requires nonviolent action not just from Israelis and Palestinians, but also from Americans, the media, aid organizations, and others. By Mubarak Awad I have spent my life advocating for Palestinians and Israelis to use nonviolent means…

According to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the planet’s hydrological cycle is “spinning out of balance” due to human activity and climate change. Extreme rainfall and droughts, seemingly two opposites on a spectrum of extreme weather, are bringing unprecedented and frequent damage…

While in Beijing, Lavrov is expected to hold talks with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in the Chinese capital on Monday, starting his visit to Beijing which will host its third Belt and Road…

Before last May’s election in Greece, the returning prime minister claimed his ‘firm but fair’ policy on people movement worked. Far from it. Samos, a mile from the Turkish coastline, has become known as one of the five ‘hotspots’ in…

The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting a recipient who blatantly is not “the person who has done the most or best…