Posts by Amelia Frost
Tourist Coins Pose Giant Problem At N. Ireland’s Famous Causeway Site
[ad_1] Northern Ireland’s Giant Causeway draws close to one million visitors a year but their habit of wedging tiny coins in cracks between the rocks — to bring love or luck — is damaging the world-famous wonder. Now authorities are urging tourists to keep their coins in their pockets to preserve the spectacular landscape. Some…
Read MoreThe Activist Who Fought For Sierra Leone’s First World Heritage Site
[ad_1] Activist Tommy Garnett’s decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone’s Tiwai island — a lush forest home to one of the world’s highest concentrations of primates — landed a spot Sunday on the UN cultural agency’s World Heritage list. The 66-year-old and the conservation group he founded are the reason Tiwai, which was…
Read More‘Rose Water Nails’ Are Going to Be Everywhere This Summer
[ad_1] Spritzing a rose water face mist with abandon comes with the territory in a heat wave. But beyond a refreshing veil of moisture, rose water nails are also having a moment. Characterized by its translucent, rosy pink flush, rose water nails are a sheer, tinted manicure that boosts your natural nail color. While sharing…
Read MoreLiverpool Honour ‘Champion’ Jota In Return To Action At Preston
[ad_1] Diogo Jota was hailed “a champion” on Sunday by Liverpool manager Arne Slot as the Reds returned to the field for the first time since the Portuguese’s death in a pre-season friendly at Preston. Father of three Jota, who married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso 11 days before the accident, died alongside his brother…
Read MoreEU Chief Delays Retaliation For US Tariffs In Search Of Deal
[ad_1] EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday that Brussels will continue to hold off on hitting back at US steel and aluminium tariffs, as it seeks a deal to avoid broader 30-percent levies. US President Donald Trump on Saturday threw months of painstaking negotiations into disarray by announcing he would hammer the 27-nation…
Read MoreGaza Civil Defence Says Israeli Strikes Kill Over 30 As Truce Talks Deadlocked
[ad_1] Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed more than 30 Palestinians, including children at a water distribution point, as talks for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas stalled. Delegations from Israel and the Palestinian militant group have now spent a week trying to agree on a temporary truce to halt…
Read MoreNorth Korea’s Kim Offers Russia Full Support On Ukraine In Lavrov Talks
[ad_1] North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offered Moscow his full support for their war in Ukraine during talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Pyongyang state media said Sunday. Lavrov’s visit to North Korea was the latest in a series of high-profile trips by top Moscow officials as both countries deepen military and political…
Read MoreFarm Worker Dies After US Immigration Raid In California
[ad_1] A farm worker has died after being injured during a raid by US immigration agents on a legal cannabis farm in California, his family said on Saturday. Raids on agricultural sites Thursday resulted in the arrests of 200 undocumented migrants, as part of US President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging anti-immigration crackdown, and clashes between law…
Read MoreRewriting The Past: Indonesia’s New History Books Spook Scholars
[ad_1] The Indonesian government’s plans to issue new history books have sparked fears that mention of deadly riots in 1998 targeting mostly ethnic Chinese in the country will be scrubbed from the text. The 10-volume account was ordered by the administration of President Prabowo Subianto, an ex-general accused of abducting activists in the unrest that…
Read MoreTrump’s Dealmaker Name On The Line In High Stakes Tariff Talks
[ad_1] President Donald Trump set out early in his second term to fulfill a decades-long desire of reshaping US trade with the world, but the main outcomes so far have been discord and uncertainty. The real estate tycoon, who has staked his reputation on being a consummate dealmaker, embarked on an aggressive strategy of punitive…
Read MoreFaced With US Heat Waves, The Navajo Push For Power — And A/C
[ad_1] Workmen plant electricity poles in the rust-orange earth of the Navajo Nation and run cables to Christine Shorty’s house — finally giving her power against the searing Arizona desert heat. It will be a luxury in the vast Native American reservation, the largest in the United States, where more than 10,000 families are still…
Read MoreTrump Calls For MAGA Base To End ‘Epstein Files’ Obsession
[ad_1] President Donald Trump urged his political base on Saturday to stop attacking his administration over files related to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a case that has become an obsession for conspiracy theorists. Trump’s Department of Justice and the FBI said in a memo made public last week there was no evidence that the…
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