Massacres have spread across once-quiet towns on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, in the deadliest outbreak of sectarian violence since rebels toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad. Christina Goldbaum, The New York Times’s bureau chief in Syria, traveled to the area to get a sense of who was responsible. Source link
During the first 17 hours, Dr. Scarpati said, Pompeii was blanketed with pumice lapilli from the column, which fluctuated like a giant fountain through 12 distinct pulses. At 2 p.m., the volcano began to spew pumice mixed with gas. Over the next four hours, roofs began to cave in under the weight of the pumice…
US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were set to sign a mineral deal on Friday, which could have been a crucial step toward securing US involvement in ending the Ukraine-Russia war. However, a meeting between the two leaders at the White House turned into an unprecedented showdown. The leaders clashed in…