#displacement

#displacement

This is a novel of ideas, as well as, at its most elemental, a tangled love story. Desai's characters inhabit a complex post-modern, post-colonial world and, yet, her own sensibility as a novelist is playfully old-fashioned. Consider the contrivance Desai brazenly concocts to enable a central moment of this story: a chance meeting on an overnight train between the two title characters after they've each rejected their own families' formal attempts to arrange a marriage between them. Dickens, himself, might have blushed.

Northern Ireland faces a permacrisis from recurring race riots and may need to use military bases to shelter people burnt out of their homes, government documents reveal. Officials fear the region faces prolonged instability and that a single incident, local or international, could spark widespread disorder. The stark warnings say some displaced families have gone off-grid for security and that authorities may struggle to provide safe emergency accommodation if renewed unrest erupts.

The roadmap for a solution in Suwayda includes holding accountable those who attacked civilians, continuing humanitarian and medical aid, compensating those affected, ensuring the return of displaced persons, restoring basic services, deploying local Interior Ministry forces to protect roads, uncovering the fate of missing persons and returning abductees, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani said in a news release on Tuesday after meeting with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi and US Syria's envoy Tom Barrack in Damascus.

I had just started teaching at a school in the Bekaa valley when war broke out in September 2024. Within days, an Israeli bomb tore through my family home. One minute we were eating lunch, the next the walls were collapsing around us and on to my car outside. I had spent three years saving for that Honda Civic, so when I saw it destroyed, I broke down in tears.

Twenty-four days after the worst wildfire in L.A. history burned their stadium, members of the Palisades Charter High School football team stretched and twisted on a middle school field in Santa Monica. To the north, a sickly orange haze hung along the horizon, a reminder of the inferno that had reduced parts of their school to a ragged tangle of charred masonry, metal and wood. About 10 players had lost their homes in the Palisades fire.

Buenaventura is the most important port on Colombia's Pacific coast, handling about 40% of the country's foreign trade and acting as the gateway to the Uramba Bahia Malaga national natural park. Every year, tens of thousands of tourists arrive there, heading to the village of Juanchaco or the beaches of Ladrilleros and La Barra. But the coast around Juanchaco, in the Valle del Cauca department, is experiencing accelerated erosion that has already left damaged streets, collapsed homes and a local economy exposed to the elements.

we will not leave rent-controlled units and small businesses behind.

Residents of the city of one million Palestinians have been expecting an onslaught for weeks, since the Israeli government devised a plan to deal Hamas a fatal blow in what it says are the militant group's last remaining strongholds. "I say to the residents of Gaza, take this opportunity and listen to me carefully: you have been warned - get out of there!" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Farmers and experts warn Iraq's historic rivers are vanishing, threatening survival, identity and stability. Iraq, once known as Mesopotamia, the Land of the Two Rivers, is facing its worst water crisis in living memory. The Tigris and Euphrates lifelines of agriculture and civilisation for millennia are running dry. Climate change, upstream dams and decades of mismanagement have turned fertile land into dust, forcing families from their homes and threatening national stability.

Islam's* life was changed forever by an air strike in November 2023. The young woman from el-Geneina, Sudan, had been preparing for her exams when a strike landed directly on her family's home. Now, sitting in one of the countless straw structures in a sprawling refugee camp in Adre just over the border in eastern Chad, Islam, 22, sobs as she recalls what happened to her.

Pennsylvania is positioning itself as a hub for data centers, attracting billions in investments and creating job opportunities in AI and advanced manufacturing sectors. The state's favorable conditions for data centers, such as cheap energy and a skilled workforce, are drawing tech projects like Project Gravity to the area. Pennsylvania's zoning laws have hindered the development of data centers and residential housing, contributing to rising home prices and rents.

Residents in eastern Punjab have also experienced abnormal amounts of rain, as well as cross-border flooding after India released water from swollen rivers and its overflowing dams into Pakistan's low-lying regions. This is the biggest flood in the history of the Punjab. The flood has affected two million people. It's the first time that the three rivers Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi have carried such high levels of water, the senior minister for the province, Marriyum Aurangzeb, told a press conference on Sunday.