Sanity Test Tag

As Muslims across Nigeria prepare for Eid al-Adha, the rising cost of living is casting a shadow over celebrations. The price of rams - central to the festival’s traditional animal sacrifice - has surged dramatically, leaving many families struggling to keep up. (AP Video shot by Dan Ikpoyi)

At least 11 people are dead and more than 30 injured after a stampede on Wednesday as crowds tried to enter a cricket stadium in southern India’s Karnataka state, authorities said. The crush happened as tens of thousands of cricket fans gathered outside the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru city to celebrate the winners of the Indian Premier League, the world’s most popular T20 cricket tournament.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Russia’s proposal for ending the countries’ 3-year war is not doable and repeated his call for face-to-face talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. (AP video by Alex Babenko)

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. The skeletons were found on the grounds of a gunpowder magazine at Colonial Williamsburg, famed for Revolutionary War history. (AP video/Allen G. Breed)

Here’s the latest for Wednesday, June 4th: Israeli strike kills 7 at Gaza port; Muslims in Mecca for the Hajj; WWII-era bombs force evacuations in German city; California wine country town installing novel backup power source, spurred by wildfire-forced outages

For most Chinese, the 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday. And that’s just how the ruling Communist Party wants it.