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A towering orange-lit smoke column rises from a burning mountain ridge above a narrow lake at dusk, with a small lakeside town lit below

Weather & Enviorment

The Bald Range Fire Made Its Own Lightning, and British Columbia Emptied Two Towns Overnight

Premier David Eby called the weekend growth of the Bald Range wildfire “a remarkable…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

Soviet-era apartment blocks in Nizhnekamsk with an oil refining and petrochemical complex directly behind them, a flare stack burning orange and dark smoke drifting across a hazy dawn sky

Nizhnekamsk Was Built to Serve the Refinery, and Ukraine’s Deepest Drone Strike Killed 13 There

Ukrainian drones killed at least 13 people in Nizhnekamsk, a Soviet monotown built in…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 10

Aerial view at dawn of a coastal oil refinery beside calm water, with distillation columns, a field of white storage tanks, marine loading jetties, and a column of dark smoke rising from one stack

Houthis Hit Aramco’s Jazan Refinery Six Days Before Its Restart Date

Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said a fire broke out at dawn on Sunday at…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 9

Thai police officers standing behind yellow cordon tape at a closed school gate with two rescue ambulances parked on a wet street

Thailand School Shooting: Six Dead in Nonthaburi and Four Years of Unfinished Gun Reform

A teenager walked into Debsirin Nonthaburi School on Friday carrying a handgun that belonged…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 7

Above-ground crude oil pipeline running across arid desert terrain toward a pumping station at sunset

Middle East Pipeline Projects Aim to Reduce Hormuz Risk

Iraq and Syria have signed an MoU for an 800-kilometer crude pipeline to the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 6

A man in a navy suit stands with arms crossed at the edge of a floodlit soccer pitch in an empty stadium at dusk

US Soccer Gave Mauricio Pochettino More Than a Contract Extension, and the Extra Part Is the Real News

A month after the United States went out of its own World Cup with…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 6

Two Metropolitan Police officers in high-visibility jackets and custodian helmets stand with their backs to the camera behind blue and white police cordon tape stretched across a wet central London street lined with cafe seating, a red double-decker bus at the junction beyond

The Met Called the Covent Garden Stabbing ‘Isolated’ Before It Called It Anything Else. Southport Is Why.

Four men were stabbed on Endell Street in Covent Garden just after 12:27pm on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 5

Firefighters in dark navy uniforms and blue helmets aim a hose at a gutted, still-burning steel warehouse beside freight rail wagons, with scattered wooden pallets and debris across wet asphalt

Russia Killed 17 Around Kyiv Using the One Weapon Ukraine Can No Longer Intercept

Russian forces fired 24 ballistic missiles at Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight into…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 5

Abandoned striped sun loungers, tilted umbrellas and a child's inflatable ring left on an empty pebble beach beside turquoise water, with forested mountains behind and emergency vehicles with blue lights parked in the distance

Russia’s Beach Alert Lasted Ten Minutes. Seven People Died After It Was Called Off.

Seven people, three of them children, were killed on a crowded pebble beach at…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 3

Two heavy firefighting helicopters with orange belly tanks parked on a dirt staging strip in dry Greek hills, rotors stopped, as a column of wildfire smoke rises over pine ridges above the sea behind them

Greece Grounded Its Bell Helicopters After a Midair Collision Killed Two Aircrew Over Psatha

Two Bell 214ST helicopters collided in the air over Psatha on Sunday afternoon, killing…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 2

Two columns of smoke rise over a dense coastal skyline of damaged mid-rise concrete apartment blocks with collapsed upper floors, seen from above at dawn

Trump’s Gaza Deal Set a 300-Day Disarmament Clock and No Date to Stop Shooting

Israeli warplanes hit Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis from dawn on Sunday,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 2

Aerial view from a rescue aircraft of a scorched blue and white roll-on roll-off ferry adrift at sea, black smoke pouring from its upper decks, with tugboats and small orange inflatable boats alongside and people in life jackets in the water

Indonesia Is Searching for 41 People From the Mutiara Sentosa 2. The Manifest Is the Problem.

A passenger ferry bound for Makassar caught fire in the Java Sea early Sunday,…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 2

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Crude oil tankers moving in single file through a narrow sea channel between rocky coastlines at dusk, with a grey naval destroyer in the distance

Trump Called Off a Second Iran Strike for a Deal Iran Has Not Confirmed

Mountaineer Nirmal Purja in a red and black down expedition suit standing on a snow ridge with a glaciated Karakoram peak behind him

The Avalanche That Killed Nirmal Purja Caught All Ten of His Climbers at Once

Twin barbed-wire border fences run down a hillside to a beach at Ceuta, with a rock breakwater extending into the Mediterranean and a patrol boat offshore

57 Died Reaching Ceuta. Spain Returned 48,300 People to Morocco Within Two Days.

Evacuees wade from a pebble beach toward an orange inflatable boat as a Hellenic Coast Guard patrol vessel waits in rough water offshore, with wildfire burning through palm trees on the hillside behind them.

Weather & Enviorment

Greece Is Pulling People Off Beaches by Boat as Wind Grounds Its Firefighting Aircraft

The United States Capitol lit from within at blue hour beneath heavy storm clouds, its dome reflected in wet, deserted pavement across the empty plaza

The Iran War Expands as the Senate Blocks the Only Vote That Could Stop It

A wide dark impact crater in a harvested wheat field ringed by scattered metal fragments, with blue and white police tape, two officers, a police van and firefighters beside a fire truck in the background.

Poland Identified the Russian Missile Within Hours, Then Left Article 4 Alone

Five interceptor missile trails rise from a desert airbase at night as two bright intercept flashes detonate high above silhouetted hangars and a radar array.

Iran Fired First This Time, and the Pause Trump Ordered Was Never Written Down

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu seated in armchairs in the Oval Office with US and Israeli flags behind them

Trump Meets Netanyahu at the White House as the Iran Strike Pause Holds

A collapsed traditional Japanese house with a dark tile roof beside a road split by deep fissures, emergency responders in blue and orange uniforms working in the middle distance, and a cracked elevated highway viaduct behind

Magnitude 7.1 Earthquake Rocks Kumamoto, the Prefecture Japan Staked Its Chip Revival On

Massive wildfire advancing through pine forests toward a city skyline with thick smoke and firefighting aircraft dropping flame retardant

France’s Bordeaux Wildfire Triggers the Country’s Biggest Peacetime Evacuation Since World War II

Aerial view of the Strait of Hormuz at dusk with oil tankers on dark waters and distant orange glow on the Iranian coastline

U.S. Stops Bombing Iran After Two Weeks of Strikes as China Brokers New Peace Push

Aerial view of dry cracked farmland and grain silos shimmering under a blazing sun in the American heartland

Weather & Enviorment

A Heat Dome Is Baking the Central U.S. This Weekend, and 80 Million People Are in Its Path

A massive crowd fills San Diego Comic-Con Hall H with phones raised as a flaming skull image glows on the main stage screen

Ryan Gosling Is Ghost Rider, David Jonsson Is the New Black Panther, and Marvel Just Won Comic-Con

Emergency lights illuminating Berlin Tiergarten park at night with Brandenburg Gate in background after vehicle attack at Pride parade

Vehicle Rams Crowd at Berlin Pride Parade, Killing 1 and Injuring at Least 17

A U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber flies low over the Persian Gulf at dusk with smoke plumes rising from the Iranian coastline

Trump Says He Is ‘Close’ to Ordering a ‘Massive Attack’ on Iran as 13th Night of Airstrikes Wraps

The White House at dusk with a cracked diplomatic treaty document and smartphone screen in the foreground, editorial news illustration

Trump Signed the Saudi Nuclear Deal, Then Rewrote Its Terms on Social Media

Oil tanker at sea with fire and black smoke rising from its bow in the Red Sea

Houthis Hit Two Saudi Oil Tankers in the Red Sea, and Crude Is Suddenly Knocking on $100

A US Air Force B-1 Lancer bomber with swept wings flying at dusk beneath a storm-lit sky

The B-1 Bomber Just Entered the Iran War. Here’s What That Escalation Actually Means