A harvested field on the Israeli side and, on the other side of the border, the ruins of the Gaza Strip, May 7, 2025. AMIR COHEN/REUTERS At the end of winter, when strawberry season was at its peak in the Gaza Strip, Akram Abou Khoussa and his brothers’ farm was a popular tourist spot. Their […]
Customer service employees of Booking.com, in Tourcoing (Nord), October 4, 2019. DENIS CHARLET / AFP Times are tough for Booking.com, the pioneering Dutch company in online accommodation booking. Its practices have already been condemned by European courts, as well as in Spain, Germany and Hungary. Now, Booking.com faces a mass legal complaint from the Dutch […]
Chan Po-ying, chair of Hong Kong’s League of Social Democrats, along with party members, hosts a press conference to announce the party’s dissolution amid China’s national security law, in Hong Kong, China, June 29, 2025. TYRONE SIU / REUTERS One of Hong Kong’s last remaining opposition parties has officially disbanded, its leader announced on Sunday, […]
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington DC, June 27, 2025. KEN CEDENO / REUTERS President Donald Trump said on Sunday, June 29, a group of buyers […]
Most of us are now frighteningly familiar with the genres of writing devoted to the topic of climate change and ecological collapse: any number of excellent, intelligent and well-researched books from the last decade back to Silent Spring [by Rachel Carson, published in 1962]. They told us what we needed to do, then what we […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the district court in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2024, to attend the fifth day of testimony in his trial on corruption charges. DEBBIE HILL / AFP An Israeli court on Sunday, June 29, postponed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a […]
Inter Miami forward Luis Suárez celebrates after his goal against the Brazilian team Palmeiras during the FIFA Club World Cup on June 23, 2025, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP Paris Saint-Germain’s (PSG) American adventure at the FIFA Club World Cup has the feel of a reunion. On […]
Gendarmes secure the area near the site of the deadly shooting during a wedding in Goult (Vaucluse) on June 22, 2025. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP The tall metal barriers still blocking access to the parking lot of Goult’s village hall, in the Vaucluse region of southeastern France, do little obscure the striking scene: in the distance, the […]
This handout photograph taken and released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on June 29, 2025, shows firefighters working at a site of a Russian attack in the city of Smila, Cherkasy region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. HANDOUT / AFP Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official […]
She doesn’t design sensational fashion shows, nor has she been appointed artistic director of a major fashion house. Nevertheless, Shiona Turini is one of the most influential and prominent figures in fashion today. Discreet and described as “ultra-professional,” the former communications specialist and influencer from Bermuda is advising Beyoncé on her wardrobe choices for her […]