Digest

World and business news. The world is the totality of entities, the whole of reality, or everything that exists. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a “plurality of worlds”

Toll from Landslide in Georgia Mountain Resort up to 17 Dead, 18 Missing

Toll from Landslide in Georgia Mountain Resort up to 17 Dead, 18 Missing

The death toll from a landslide that hit a resort area in the mountains of the country of Georgia increased...

Paris’ Test for Olympic Swimming in Seine Canceled Due to Poor Water Quality 

Paris’ Test for Olympic Swimming in Seine Canceled Due to Poor Water Quality 

Heavy rains in Paris have led to the cancellation on Sunday of a swimming event in the River Seine that...

Musk Says Fight with Zuckerberg Will be Live-Streamed on X

Musk Says Fight with Zuckerberg Will be Live-Streamed on X

Elon Musk said in a social media post that his proposed cage fight with Meta (META.O) CEO Mark Zuckerberg would...

Closing Youth Festival in Portugal, Pope Shares ‘Old Man’s’ Dream of Peace 

Closing Youth Festival in Portugal, Pope Shares ‘Old Man’s’ Dream of Peace 

Pope Francis closed an international festival of Catholic Youth on Sunday with a huge outdoor Mass and his own “I...

AI Anxiety: Workers Fret Over Uncertain Future

AI Anxiety: Workers Fret Over Uncertain Future

The tidal wave of artificial intelligence (AI) barrelling toward many professions has generated deep anxiety among workers fearful that their...

Sweltering Europeans Give Air Conditioning a Skeptical Embrace

Sweltering Europeans Give Air Conditioning a Skeptical Embrace

During Europe’s heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of...

Heat, Wildfires Put Southern Europe’s Vital Tourism Earnings at Risk

Heat, Wildfires Put Southern Europe’s Vital Tourism Earnings at Risk

Tourists at a seaside hotel on the Greek island of Rhodes snatched up pails of pool water and damp towels...

Slovenia Suffers Worst-Ever Floods, Damage May Top 500 Million Euros

Slovenia Suffers Worst-Ever Floods, Damage May Top 500 Million Euros

Slovenia has faced the worst natural disaster in its history, Prime Minister Robert Golob said Saturday, after devastating floods caused...

Pope Visits Portuguese Shrine Known for Apocalyptic Prophesy Linked to Russia

Pope Visits Portuguese Shrine Known for Apocalyptic Prophesy Linked to Russia

Pope Francis visited the Portuguese town of Fatima to pray for peace at a shrine Saturday known for apocalyptic prophesies...

Niger Junta Seeks Wagner Help to Combat Outside Military Threat

Niger Junta Seeks Wagner Help to Combat Outside Military Threat

Niger’s new military junta has asked for help from the Russian mercenary group Wagner as the deadline nears for it...

Russia’s War on Ukraine Generates Its Own ‘Fog’ With Disinformation

Russia’s War on Ukraine Generates Its Own ‘Fog’ With Disinformation

On the battlefields of Ukraine, the fog of war plagues soldiers. Far from the fighting, a related and just as...

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Tanker Hit in Drone Attack Near Crimea Bridge

Latest in Ukraine: Russian Tanker Hit in Drone Attack Near Crimea Bridge

Latest developments: Saturday intelligence update on Ukraine from the Britain’s Ministry of Defense says strike on 113-meter-long Russian landing ship,...

Miyazawa Scores Her 5th Goal of Women’s World Cup as Japan Beats Norway 3-1

Miyazawa Scores Her 5th Goal of Women’s World Cup as Japan Beats Norway 3-1

Japan scored its 14th goal of the Women’s World Cup and conceded its first Saturday, beating Norway 3-1 to reach...

Saudi Arabia Dives Into Ukraine Peace Push with Jeddah Talks

Saudi Arabia Dives Into Ukraine Peace Push with Jeddah Talks

Saudi Arabia was set to host talks on Russia’s war on Ukraine on Saturday in the latest flexing of its...

At World Youth Day, Pope Says Love a Risk ‘Worth Taking’ 

At World Youth Day, Pope Says Love a Risk ‘Worth Taking’ 

Pope Francis presided over a Way of the Cross reenactment at a Lisbon park on Friday before hundreds of thousands...

NASA Back in Touch With Voyager 2 After ‘Interstellar Shout’

NASA Back in Touch With Voyager 2 After ‘Interstellar Shout’

NASA has succeeded in reestablishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an “interstellar shout”...

Poland Watches Anxiously as Tensions Grow on Belarusian Border

Poland Watches Anxiously as Tensions Grow on Belarusian Border

Tensions are high along the Poland-Belarus border after two Belarusian helicopters entered Polish air space. Poland’s army has moved additional...

West African Military Chiefs Draw Up Intervention Plan as Niger Talks Falter

West African Military Chiefs Draw Up Intervention Plan as Niger Talks Falter

West African defense chiefs have drawn up a plan for a possible military intervention in Niger if that country’s military...

Journalists, Rights Activists Warn of Damage From Anti-Gay Rhetoric in Turkey

Journalists, Rights Activists Warn of Damage From Anti-Gay Rhetoric in Turkey

For staff at the Turkish LGBTQ online magazine Velvele, the worry that content will be censored is constant. “That’s one...

South Africa President Expecting Report on Russian ‘Lady R’ Ship

South Africa President Expecting Report on Russian ‘Lady R’ Ship

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to receive a much-anticipated report on whether arms were loaded onto the sanctioned...

Analysis: China’s Military Influence in Africa Grows as Russia’s Diminishes

Analysis: China’s Military Influence in Africa Grows as Russia’s Diminishes

China’s People’s Liberation Army marked the 96th anniversary of its founding this week with President Xi Jinping overseeing celebrations in...

Pioneering Mothers Break Down Barriers to Breastfeeding in Olympic Sports

Pioneering Mothers Break Down Barriers to Breastfeeding in Olympic Sports

When Clarisse Agbégnénou won her sixth world judo title, confirming the reigning Olympic champion as one of the athletes to...