It’s been a very long week for Beatriz Armada, the Venezuela operations manager for the humanitarian nonprofit Humanity and Inclusion. Hers is just one of many non-governmental organizations that have been responding to the devastation of two massive earthquakes that struck Venezuela last week, which have left, by a conservative estimate, some 1,700 people dead […]
Before he could make sense of what happened, Ali Oday Yassin felt the ground beneath him tremble. Yassin owns a roadside rest stop next to Qaraoun Dam, a cornerstone of Lebanon’s water and energy infrastructure. On May 26, Israeli airstrikes hit targets perilously close to the dam, tearing apart adjacent access roads and scattering debris [...]