Day: September 15, 2023
At oldest Palestinian camp in Lebanon, violence adds to struggles
An eruption of violence has brought into sharp focus the plight of Lebanon’s Palestinians, who for decades have lived in crowded camps. Yet individuals strive to maintain dignity and hope.
Enough to make your skin crawl: 20 rattlesnakes found inside a homeowner’s garage in Arizona
An Arizona man called a snake removal company after seeing what he thought were three rattlesnakes lurking in the garage of his Mesa home.
Wagner Group sustains significant losses in clashes with Central African Republic rebels
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G77+China summit in Cuba seeks to strengthen voice of ‘global South’
The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the global population, gathers Friday in Cuba seeking to promote a “new economic world order” amid warnings of growing polarization.
Last month was the hottest August ever recorded, as year of climate extremes continues
August was the hottest August on Earth, according to climate data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration going back 174 years.
Milestone Navy nominee faces some familiar questions at Senate grilling
The admiral in line to be the first woman to head the U.S. Navy and the first to serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff faced some familiar lines of questioning as a Senate confirmation hearing for Admiral Lisa M. Franchetti, focused on the service’s shipb…
What Was Taiwan’s President Doing in Eswatini?
For what might be her last foreign trip as president, Tsai Ing-wen chose to highlight one of Taiwan’s firmest remaining diplomatic relationships.
Trump insists there is no ‘ritual’ to declassifying US secrets ‘at least in my opinion’
‘I’m allowed to take these documents – classified or not classified. And frankly, when I have them, they become unclassified,’ Trump says
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, which lets users access Oracle services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft and Oracle expand their cloud partnership with Oracle Database@Azure, which lets users access Oracle services on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Azure — The new level of collaboration…