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April 5, 2025

High winds and sandstorms prompt Beijing to cancel hundreds of flights and close parks
High winds and the threat of sandstorms Saturday prompted Beijing to cancel hundreds of flights and close public parks, as massive gales felled hundreds of trees, crushing cars and damaging older homes across China’s capital. Beijing’s two massive international airports, Beijing Capital and Daxing, canceled 693 flights by 2:00 p.m. with warnings of more violent…
Sudanese paramilit attack famine-stricken camps, killing at least 100
Sudan’s paramilit Rapid Support Forces have killed at least 100 people, including 20 children and nine aid workers, after launching an assault on two famine-stricken camps in the Darfur region, the latest escalation in a bitter civil war about to enter its third year. The RSF targeted the Zamzam and Abu Shouk camps, where more than…
The hottest new social scene might be a book club
They pick a title, read it and then gather to discuss it in detail. But unlike more traditional book clubs, many of these groups add on another activity — or multiple — to turn their gatherings into social events rather than introverted hangs. Some of the groups like to run after reading. Others enjoy making…
This Washington border county is desperate for Canadians
A few Canadians are still stopping by the Blaine visitor center, said local Chamber of Commerce Secret Carroll Solomon, but it’s often just to use the public bathroom. A few yards away one recent Sunday, Trent Arce and G Farrow were chatting by the welcome sign at the town entrance that reads “Blaine, Washington, the…
At least 21 people killed in Russian attack on Ukrainian city
A Russian ballistic missile strike killed at least 21 people and wounded 83 others in the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, according to Ukraine’s interior minister Ihor Klymenko, marking one of the deadliest single attacks on the country this year. The strike came amid rising tensions between Moscow and Kyiv, as both sides accuse…
Hong Kong’s Democratic Party votes to proceed with disbandment
TOKYO — The Democratic Party of Hong Kong, one of the city’s last formal pro-democracy forces, voted on Sunday to move forward with the process of disbanding, amid pressure from Beijing. The vote marks a major step toward shutting down a party that had sought to safeguard freedoms for decades — the latest sign of narrowing…
One of the country’s leading Alzheimer’s projects is in jeopardy
SEATTLE — Andrea Gilbert thought she knew what would happen to her brain. The 79-year-old retired attorney, who has Alzheimer’s disease and receives care at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, agreed to donate it for research in 2023. She hoped to help scientists unlock the keys to a disease that had left her writing notes…
Mountains of trash and ‘cat-size’ rats as garbage workers strike in U.K.’s second largest city
After the Labour Party came into power last year following 14 years of Conservative rule, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, during his first speech on Downing Street, vowed to fix a country that had been drained of “hope, the spirit and the belief in a better future.” Last week, Starmer, whose party runs the Birmingham City…
Tariff war pressures U.S. economy, from tech to beef
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK — Tit-for-tat tariffs by the U.S. and China are expected to deal a heavy blow to American businesses and consumers, from threatening their access to rare-earth elements used in high-tech products to squeezing exports of American beef. “China wants a deal — they just don’t know how quite to go about it,” Trump…