International

6 months into war, Palestinians face high unemployment and a ‘disastrous’ economy
A Palestinian Authority official says there are around 700,000 Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza who have gone six months without work since the war between Israel and Hamas began on Oct. 7.
Seizures, broken spines and vomiting: Scientific testing that helped facilitate D-Day
Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered wildly unethical today in an effort to shore up the war effort.
A first glimpse of Khan Younis, a Gaza city now lying in ruins
Israeli troops withdrew Sunday from the city after a four-month battle against Hamas. Displaced Palestinians returning there found immense destruction. Most went back to living in tents in Rafah.
Biden is hosting Japan’s Kishida. But the Nippon Steel deal is not on the agenda
President Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida Fumio will announce efforts to strengthen military ties, as well as collaborations on space exploration and artificial intelligence.
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ‘God particle,’ has died
Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.
Israel’s Palestinian citizens grow louder in protesting the Gaza war
Palestinian citizens make up 20 percent of Israel’s population, and many grieve the suffering in Gaza. Hundreds were arrested or lost jobs for questioning the war there, and doing so can still be perilous.
Attacks on Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant increases accident risk, IAEA head says
The head of the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency on Sunday condemned a Ukrainian drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.