Posts by Riah Stelmack
Ukraine invited to NATO summit in The Hague this month
Ukraine, which is defending itself a full-scale Russian invasion, has received an invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in The Hague. “We have been invited to the NATO summit. I think that is important,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told journalists on Monday. The invitation was extended during his meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte…
Read MoreThis Smartphone Smuggled Out of North Korea Is Absolutely Wild
Autocomrade North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, is tightening the leash to stop the influence of South Korean media from crossing the border, where it’s often smuggled on USB sticks and SD cards. As the BBC reports, consuming foreign media is punishable by imprisonment and even death in the dictatorship. In 2023, Kim even made…
Read MoreBrooklyn Beckham Knew He Wanted to Marry Nicola Peltz-Beckham After Three Months of Dating
Brooklyn Beckham was confident that Nicola Peltz was the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with early on in their relationship. The A-list couple sat down for an interview with Glamour Germany — translated from German to English — published on Monday, June 2, and discussed their whirlwind romance. Brooklyn, 26,…
Read MoreHow Ukraine carried out daring ‘Spider Web’ attack on Russian bombers
It was an attack of astonishing ingenuity – unprecedented, broad, and 18 months in the making. On 1 June more than 100 Ukrainian drones struck air bases deep inside Russia, targeting nuclear-capable long-range bombers. The scale of the operation dubbed “Spider Web” became clear almost as soon as it began, with explosions reported across several…
Read MorePeru reduces Nazca Lines park by 42%, raising concerns over environmental and heritage risks
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Peru’s decision to shrink its archeological park home to the famous Nazca Lines by around 42% — an area roughly the size of 1,400 soccer fields — has sparked alarm among conservationists, archaeologists and environmental advocates. Critics say the rollback paves the way for informal mining and weakens decades of cultural…
Read MoreItaly’s Mount Etna erupts, spewing ash, gas and rock
A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy’s Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear of Europe’s largest active volcano. Sicily’s Mount Etna has been active recently but Monday’s eruption was the most dramatic, with experts warning that such activity could continue for weeks. Images showed a…
Read MoreThe Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement
Writing in this magazine in 1973, Kennedy Fraser referred to style as “individualistic, aristocratic, and reckless,” and one or all of those qualities can be seen in the various personalities whose sartorial choices are featured here, including the fantastic, in all senses of the word, Julius Soubise, an eighteenth-century dandy who was born into slavery…
Read MoreHow Margaret Fuller Set Minds on Fire
In the four and a half decades since its founding, the Library of America has issued not only the pillars of our national literature but such populist fare as the lyrics of Cole Porter and a volume devoted to “Peanuts.” This is certainly the right move—the jazzy and the colloquial are the very lifeblood of…
Read MoreHamas reports more than 20 killed in gunfire at aid site in Gaza
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key Takeaways At least 22 people have been killed and more than 115 injured in Israeli gunfire at a controversial relief operation in the southern Gaza…
Read MoreHamas says at least 60 people killed in Gaza in the past 24 hours
At least 60 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours as a result of Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian reports said on Saturday. The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health also said that 284 people were injured during the same period. The ministry does not differentiate between combatants and civilians. The information could…
Read MoreDefense Ministry awards security prize to ‘movie-like’ systems behind Nasrallah killing
“These are capabilities you only see in movies, which made a decisive contribution before the campaign against our enemies, and some even helped in the elimination of Nasrallah,” Israel Katz said. Defense MinisterIsrael Katz will award the Israel Security Prize for 2025 to the “Eitan” Armoured personnel carrier, the “Oron”, “Shavit”, and “Eitam” aircraft, and…
Read MoreA bridge collapse causes a train to derail in Russia, killing at least 3 people, officials say
MOSCOW (AP) — A passenger train derailed in western Russia late Saturday after a bridge collapsed because of what local officials described as “illegal interference.” Officials said at least three people were killed and 28 injured. The train came off its tracks in Russia’s Bryansk region en route from the Russian capital of Moscow to…
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