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London’s Oxford Street bans traffic as city tries to revitalize shopping district

London's Oxford Street is closing to cars, buses, and bicycles starting Monday

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In their words: Global leaders congratulate Trump critic Lula on reelection in Brazil

Regional and world leaders congratulated Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after he defeated challenger Flavio Bolsonaro to win an unprecedented fourth term.

Whatever the outcome of Israel's election, its policies toward the Palestinians will largely endure

Even if Tuesday's pivotal elections in Israel mark the end of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decades-long political career, his legacy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank - of massive settlement expansion, the displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians and the empowerment of armed settler extremists - will likely endure.

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Chris Brown avoids prison, handed suspended eight-month sentence in London nightclub attack

Grammy Award-winning singer Chris Brown avoided avoided prison time Monday after pleading guilty to attacking a music producer with a tequila bottle at a London nightclub in 2023.

US forces accused of ‘weaponising’ Somalia’s floods by trapping women and children in the path of El Niño

Exclusive: Coordinated airstrikes on territory held by al-Shabaab are driving the civilian population to find refuge alongside a river where rising water levels are a threat to safety. Is it a deliberate military strategy?The water was rising rapidly. It had already reached Cayni Ali’s waist. Her home, five metres from the flooded River Juba in southern Somalia, never stood a chance. There was nowhere to go. Ali’s city of Jilib was under attack. Repeated airstrikes, said the mother of six, were pinning its population beside the rising river.“The drones come all the time,” said the 27-year-old. “We hear them constantly. They kill animals, civilians. The town is big but destruction is everywhere.” Continue reading...