Hidden deep in Guatemala’s parched rainforest, plastic tubs filled by hand and guarded by motion-triggered cameras are giving jaguars, monkeys, and tapirs a fighting chance—one sip at a time, in a forest running dangerously dry. When the Rain Stopped Falling Beneath the green tangle of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, where birds once called out over broad rivers and frogs nested in every puddle, something has gone eerily silent. The rains that once fell like clockwork have become hesitant and scattered. In 2023, the skies held back, delivering the second-lowest rainfall in four decades. Ponds dried into cracked mosaics of mud.…
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While San Juan dances through Bad Bunny’s electric stadium residency, Vega Baja—the singer’s sugarcane hometown—remains his quiet origin story, where parish bells, checkout lines, and a spiral notebook stitched together the rhythm now shaking coliseums worldwide. Choir Robes, Classrooms, and the First Spark LONG BENITO BENITO ANTONIO MARTINEZ OCASIO STRODE ONTO GLOBAL STAGES AS Bad Bunnyhe shuffled down a church aisle in a white cassock, candles trembling in his small hands. In Vega Baja’s Holy Parish Trinityhe was just Benito—a soft-spoken altar boy whose mother taught catechism, and whose head stayed bowed even after Mass ended. Miguel García, who now…
The US president says he is disappointed in Russia’s Putin as he shortens a 50-day deadline he set this month. United States President Donald Trump has set a new deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russia to reach a peace deal in its war on Ukraine or face tough new sanctions, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin for prolonging the conflict. Speaking in Scotland, where he is holding meetings with European leaders and playing golf, Trump on Monday said he was disappointed in Putin and shortened a 50-day deadline he had set this month. “I’m going to…
US president has upped rhetoric as Iran maintains it will push forward with nuclear programme after US strikes. United States President Donald Trump has re-upped threats against Iran, just weeks after launching military strikes on three of the country’s nuclear facilities. The statement on Monday was in response to Tehran’s position that it will continue to pursue nuclear enrichment for civilian purposes, a red line for the Trump administration in earlier talks this year that fell apart when Israel launched a military offensive against Tehran in June. Speaking during a news conference in Scotland beside the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister…
In 1960, Senegal, a West African coastal country on the Atlantic Ocean, became independent from France in the aftermath of a continentwide decolonization process. This should have marked the end of territorial occupation and cultural acculturation. However, the French military’s withdrawal from Senegal came after 65 years of permanent presence in the country. This decision was the result of a broader shift in 2022, when President Emmanuel Macron, as commander in chief, decided to end France’s military presence in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, the Central African Republic and Gabon. Leaving Africa once and for all Paris’ decision to withdraw…
Nowadays, Türkiye is witnessing historic activities in the fight against terrorism. Despite that, the quiet withdrawal of PKK forces in northern Iraq from areas close to the Turkish border and the symbolic laying down of arms, which started on July 11, have not received sufficient coverage in the global media. It is a critical development for regional stability and the future of the Middle East. This latest development marks a significant step forward in Türkiye’s nearly 40-year fight against terrorism, marking the most concrete peace initiative to bring an endless conflict to an end. Türkiye’s 40-year struggle with the PKK…
ADVERTISEMENT When world leaders, diplomats, business leaders, scientists and activists go to Brazil in November for the annual United Nations’ climate negotiations, poverty, deforestation and much of the world’s troubles will be right in their faces — by design. In past conference cities, including resort areas and playgrounds for the rich such as Bali, Cancun, Paris, Sharm El-Sheikh and Dubai, host nations show off both their amenities and what their communities have done about climate change. But this year’s conference is in a high-poverty city on the edge of the Amazon to demonstrate what needs to be done, said the…
When most people speak of hunger, they mean something transitory: a rumble in the stomach before lunch, the discomfort of skipping breakfast. In Gaza, hunger is not a passing feeling but forced starvation is a daily reality for over two million people. It is a condition imposed by Israel’s siege, deepened by displacement, and sharpened by war. The Israeli occupation does not only kill with strikes and bombs; it kills slowly, through the stomach. It kills through queues, through the erosion of dignity, turning bread into a battlefield and a single lentil into a luxury. Massacres at food distribution sites…
Türkiye has signed an agreement with the United Kingdom as it moves closer to acquiring the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets. The inclusion of the aircraft will mark a major step in modernising its air force. Experts say Türkiye’s plan to buy the jets aims to strengthen its defence strategy and adapt to the shifting geopolitical landscape. Eurofighter Typhoon, regarded as one of the most advanced fighter jets in the world, has been jointly produced by the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy. “The Turkish Air Force has the operational strength to handle both national and regional threats,” says Kemal Olcar, a…
[NOTE:BrokenKids:TheUntoldStoryofYoungAthletes[NOTE:BrokenKids:TheUntoldStoryofYoungAthletes available until August 25, 2025.] In 1983, at the French Open Women’s Tennis Tournament at the Stade Roland Garros, Stefanie Maria Graf, better known as Steffi Graf, became the youngest-ever tennis player to compete in the main draw of a grand slam at the age of 13. She had turned pro one year earlier, in 1982, and she was to become a sensation for the next two decades. Steffi Graf learned how to swing a racket when she was three years old. Her father, Peter, coached her and controlled her schedule in order to protect her from burn out.…