Icelandic authorities declared a state of emergency and evacuated a town of about 4,000 people on Saturday after hundreds of earthquakes were detected overnight, signaling an increased likelihood of a volcano erupting in the country’s southwestern Reykjanes Peninsula. The Icelandic Meteorological Office, the country’s weather service, said it was not possible to say when and […]

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save BEIRUT — Gaza’s embattled hospitals faced near total collapse Saturday as fuel, power and water dwindled, fighting raged outside and Israeli tanks and troops advanced deep into residential neighborhoods in the heart of Gaza City. The rapid deterioration is occurring amid mounting international outrage at

Against a backdrop of mounting international outrage over civilian casualties as Israel wages war on Hamas, President Emmanuel Macron of France on Friday called on Israel to stop the killing in Gaza. “De facto, today, civilians are bombed — de facto,” he told the BBC in an interview. “These babies, these ladies, these old people

Gaza’s main hospital was collapsing on Saturday as the Israeli forces surrounding it began closing in, and an almost complete loss of power and oxygen resulted in the deaths of a premature baby in an incubator and of a number of other patients, according to the hospital director and the Gaza health ministry. Without fuel

The skeletons are never far away from Konstantin A. Dobrovolsky. Sometimes he sleeps above them in a tiny olive-green trailer in the woods. The people they might once have been appear in his dreams. For 44 summers, he has traversed the hilly scrabble northwest of Murmansk, the most populous city above the Arctic Circle and