In a rare acknowledgment, the Israeli army said that it "failed" to prevent an attack by Jewish settlers on a Palestinian village in the West Bank in which one villager was killed. Revenge attacks on Turmus Ayya and other villages followed the killing of four Israelis by Palestinian gunmen on...
Indonesia villagers race to escape eruption as sky turns black
LUMAJANG, INDONESIA - Thousands of villagers living near Indonesia's Mount Semeru were racing for refuge Sunday to the wail of emergency sirens as lava snaked towards their homes under a black sky after the volcano erupted. Locals fled on motorbikes sometimes three at a time as a mushroom cloud of...
Droughts exact heavy cost on Morocco
Water shortage has dealt a crippling blow to farming in the North African country as successive droughts exact a heavy economic cost.
Turks defend nature against Erdogan’s development push
A company plans to extract 20 million tons of stone from a quarry in an idyllic valley Up to 4 million trees were chopped during the construction of Istanbul's third major bridge Lush, thick woodland and green tea fields coat the slopes of an idyllic valley, a slice of pastoral...
