Gaza ‘facing all-out war’: UN’s grim warning as Israelis and Palestinians vow to ramp-up fighting

Palestinian militants have stockpiled enough missiles to continue bombing Israel for the next two months, security experts have warned, as escalating fighting led the UN to warn of ‘all-out war’. Boris Johnson led international leaders in calling for the two sides to step back from the brink yesterday. However, the pleas for calm appeared in … Read more

California’s ‘fire season 2021 is looking GRIM’ due to a lingering drought

California’s ‘fire season 2021 is looking GRIM’: Intense drought is leaving combustible material in plants that can fuel violent blazes after more than 50,000 wildfires ripped through the state last year Researchers conducted a  fuel-moisture content survey in California This entails weighing wet plants, letting them dry and weighing them again This method shows how much … Read more

DAN HODGES: The Irish Sea border is bringing real hardship and the grim spectre of violence

Sammy Cotter has been running his grocery wholesalers for a quarter of a century. But now he’s living day to day. ‘I’ve got £7,000 worth of goods sitting in Manchester,’ he tells me. ‘It was supposed to be delivered on December 21. But I’m still waiting.’ At first glance, his warehouse in Quarry Heights, Newtownards, … Read more

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris pray for the COVID dead as grim total passes 400,000 in US

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris used their first joint appearance in Washington D.C. Tuesday to mark the loss of more than 400,000 American lives to COVID – hours after the grim total was reached. They both appeared with First Lady-in waiting Jill Biden and Second Gentleman-in waiting Doug Emhoff in a sign of their determination … Read more

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris pray for the COVID dead as grim total passes 400,000 in US

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris used their first joint appearance in Washington D.C. Tuesday to mark the loss of more than 400,000 American lives to COVID – hours after the grim total was reached. They both appeared with First Lady-in waiting Jill Biden and Second Gentleman-in waiting Doug Emhoff in a sign of their determination … Read more

Bill Gates warns the next five months will be ‘pretty grim’ for US for COVID

Bill Gates has warned that the next five months look ‘pretty grim’ for the United States unless COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths stop surging – as he vowed to immediately take a vaccine once it’s available to him. The billionaire philanthropist, whose foundation has contributed $450 million to the global coronavirus response, told NBC’s Today that things … Read more

Bill Gates warns the next five months will be ‘pretty grim’ for US for COVID

Bill Gates has warned that the next five months look ‘pretty grim’ for the United States unless COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths stop surging – as he vowed to immediately take a vaccine once it’s available to him. The billionaire philanthropist, whose foundation has contributed $450 million to the global coronavirus response, told NBC’s Today that things … Read more

Brazil passes grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from coronavirus with more than three million cases

Brazil has become the second country to have surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths from coronavirus. The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 1,000 daily deaths from the pandemic since late May.   On Saturday, Brazil’s health ministry confirmed 49,970 new confirmed cases and 905 deaths within the … Read more