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Former British prime minister Boris Johnson addresses Conservative Party supporters at the National Army Museum in London on July 2, 2024. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — After 14 years in power with five consecutive prime ministers, the Associated Press’ exit poll suggests the U.K.’s Conservative Party has been voted out of power on […]

Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip are pictured on June 4, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, negotiations have stalled to secure the release of hostages taken by […]

Australia’s Northern Territory (LONDON) — The remains of a missing 12-year-old girl in Australia have been found after she was attacked and taken by a crocodile while swimming in a creek, police said. The incident took place on Tuesday evening at about 5:30 p.m. local time in the remote community of Palumpa — approximately a […]

bgwalker/Getty Images (LONDON) — An ant species can amputate each other’s legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, a new study finds. Ants are territorial and can get into rough encounters with rival colonies which can lead to injuries, according to scientists. But Florida carpenter ants–also […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Hurricane Beryl is slamming Jamaica with life-threatening impacts. The eyewall of the Category 4 storm is scraping the south coast of Jamaica Wednesday afternoon and looking, at this time, like it will not make official landfall. Wind gusts were up to 175 mph as the storm moved past the south […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Beryl barrels toward Jamaica as a Category 4 storm, the country’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, pre-emptively declared the entire island a disaster area in an address to the public. Holmes also said an island-wide curfew will be in place from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. local time Wednesday. […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (ST GEORGE’S, Grenada) — Warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures have allowed for the earliest-ever Category 4 hurricane on record to barrel through the Atlantic Basin, records show. Hurricane Beryl was a Category 4 storm Monday morning as it approached the Caribbean islands of St. Vincent, Grenadines, Grenada, and Carriacou and Petite Martinique islands – […]

@Natalia_gimeno (SAO GONCALO DO AMARANTE, Brazil) — Forty people were injured, some seriously, after an Air Europa flight from Spain to Uruguay experienced strong turbulence and was diverted to Brazil, officials said. Flight UX045 experienced “heavy” turbulence early Monday morning but landed safely at Natal International Airport in São Gonçalo do Amarante, the airline said. […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the death toll from Hurricane Beryl climbed to six on Tuesday, the cyclone was losing some steam as it closed in on Jamaica. According to the National Hurricane Center, Beryl was downgraded to a Category 4 from a Category 5, but its maximum sustained winds remained dangerous at 155 […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Hurricane Beryl strengthened to a Category 5 over the warm waters of the Caribbean Sea, it continued to break records by becoming the strongest July Atlantic hurricane on record. Packing maximum winds of 165 mph on Tuesday, Beryl surpassed the July record of 160 mph maximum winds produced by […]