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Annie Kopacitino holds her daughter, who she says has been affected by the pollution caused by oil drilling, in her village of Tshiende, Moanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. The country is looking to expand the oil drilling. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

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As Congo seeks to expand drilling, some communities worry pollution will worsen
By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press
Thu,02/29/24-10:22PM , 70 Reads
MOANDA, Congo (AP) — The oil drills that loom down the road from Adore Ngaka's home remind him daily of everything he's lost. The extraction in his village in western Congo has polluted the soil, withered his crops and forced the family to burn through savings to survive, he said.
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The site of a music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Israeli officials say victim testimony and evidence gathered by rights groups indicate that Hamas militants carried out widespread sexual and gender-based crimes during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

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New signs emerge of 'widespread' sexual crimes by Hamas, as Netanyahu alleges global indifference
By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press
Tue,12/05/23-5:58PM , 78 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — A man hiding in a pit during the Oct. 7 Hamas assault on an outdoor music festival in Israel said he heard someone nearby screaming she was being raped.
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Israelis embrace next to photos of people killed and taken captive by Hamas militants during their violent rampage through the Nova music festival in southern Israel, which are displayed at the site of the event, as Israeli DJs spun music, to commemorate the October 7, massacre, near kibbutz Re'im, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostage, dozens are still unaccounted for, their families left living in limbo. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

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Nearly 2 months into the war, many Israelis have no idea if their relatives are dead or alive
By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press
Fri,12/01/23-12:06AM , 131 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — There was no trace of Hanan Yablonka — not on the 42-year-old Israeli's social media accounts nor on his phone, found in the bullet-riddled car he and four friends tried to flee in after Hamas militants attacked th
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Tatyana Prima, who fled Mariupol, Ukraine, poses for a portrait with her national flag and the Israeli flag she displays outside of her apartment window in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. She thought she'd left the bombs behind when she fled after Russian troops decimated her city. Risking her life, the 38-year-old escaped with her injured husband and young daughter, bringing the family to safety in southern Israel. Yet the calm she was slowly regaining shattered on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants invaded, thrusting her onto the frontlines once again. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Ukrainians who fled their country for Israel find themselves yet again living with war
By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press
Mon,11/20/23-11:12PM , 109 Reads
ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Tatyana Prima thought she'd left the bombs behind when she fled Ukraine more than a year and a half ago, after Russia decimated her city, Mariupol.
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