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Amir Levy/Getty Images (LIMAN, Israel) — Before Oct. 7, Sigal Malachi would wake up at 5 a.m. each day to water her plants, remove weeds, and produce cuttings. The co-owner of a greenhouse in northern Israel, she said her home was once a lush paradise. Now, it’s a war zone. Like others living close to […]

Francois Nel/Getty Images (LONDON) — When most people think of Wimbledon, the immediate images that come to mind are of intense tennis matches, the iconic grass courts and the well-dressed spectators enjoying Pimm’s and lemonade along with their strawberries and cream. However, beneath this world-famous tournament lies an often overlooked yet essential aspect: the meticulous […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tropical Storm Beryl is targeting the Gulf Coast of Texas after dealing a destructive blow to several islands in the Caribbean and the resort coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Beryl is projected to re-strengthen into a hurricane before it makes landfall just north of the U.S.-Mexico border late Sunday […]

ABC News (SQUAMISH, British Columbia) — Ukrainian Plast, the country’s largest scouting organization, is becoming another center of gravity for Ukrainian families who fled the Russian war against their homeland. Maria, 9, and her family were forced to relocate to Canada from Ukraine in 2022, several weeks after Russian armed forces invaded the country. Although […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Polls opened Friday in Iran for the run-off presidential election as none of the four candidates won more than 50% of the votes in the first round on June 28. Lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, and former nuclear negotiator for Iran, Saeed Jalili, a conservative, found their way to the top […]

Britain’s Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a victory rally at the Tate Modern in London early on July 5, 2024. — Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A change election in the United Kingdom has taken place as the center-left Labour Party won a huge landslide, putting a crushing end […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Beryl has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall earlier Friday in Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane. The storm has maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, as tropical storm conditions continue over portions of the northern Yucatan Peninsula, according to the National Hurricane Center. Beryl was packing maximum […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl made landfall northeast of the resort town of Tulum on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm early Friday. Beryl was packing maximum sustained winds of 110 mph when it came ashore, weakening to 100 mph an hour after landfall. The hurricane hit Mexico after it left […]

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — On the Fourth of July, Americans across the country will be taking much of the day to relax and take a break with family. But in the UK it’s Election Day. The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak scheduled elections for the Fourth of July and it’s shaping up […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl has weakened to a Category 3 storm on Thursday, but not before leaving flooding and widespread damage on the island of Jamaica late Wednesday. Beryl’s center passed just 45 miles south of Kingston, Jamaica, as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph. Beryl was the first […]