Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Middle East Israel launches airstrike targeting Hamas members in Qatar The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Middle East Israel launches airstrike targeting Hamas members in Qatar The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb
Polish police and military on Wednesday inspect damage to a house from the debris of a drone that was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland. Poland says it shot down several Russian attack drones that violated Polish airspace in overnight Russian attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Gen Z group protests against corruption and the ban on many social media platforms by the government in Nepal on Monday. Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images Over the past 48 hours, Nepal has been rocked by deadly mass protests led by young people who are
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Middle East Israel launches airstrike targeting Hamas members in Qatar The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb
Polish police and military on Wednesday inspect damage to a house from the debris of a drone that was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland. Poland says it shot down several Russian attack drones that violated Polish airspace in overnight Russian attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Gen Z group protests against corruption and the ban on many social media platforms by the government in Nepal on Monday. Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images Over the past 48 hours, Nepal has been rocked by deadly mass protests led by young people who are
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay, pictured here in Los Angeles in July 2025, is one among many Hollywood figures to pledge not to work with Israeli movie industry companies in response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP More than 2,000 Hollywood figures, including well-known actors and filmmakers, have pledged
Dancers perform in St Swithins Church, Bath, at the Jane Austen Festival, 2023. Beata Cosgrove/Jane Austen Festival hide caption toggle caption Beata Cosgrove/Jane Austen Festival In her lifetime, Jane Austen was relatively unknown. The title page of Sense and Sensibility, her first published novel, said simply it was "By a Lady", and her other books
Voters fill in their ballots in the upper house election at a polling station Sunday, July 20, 2025, in Tokyo. Eugene Hoshiko/AP hide caption toggle caption Eugene Hoshiko/AP TOKYO — Exit polls show Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba 's ruling coalition is likely to lose a majority in the smaller of Japan's two parliamentary houses in
Centenarian marathon runner Fauja Singh. Vincent Yu/AP hide caption toggle caption Vincent Yu/AP In London in the winter of 1999, running coach Harmandar Singh took on a new student who was older than his father. Fauja Singh was 89, thin as a reed, and had a scraggy beard that nearly reached his chest. For their
An overview of textile factories on July 5, 2025 in Ha Thetsane Industrial Area in Maseru, Lesotho. The tiny mountain kingdom has around 35,000 garment workers and many of them face an uncertain future. Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images Europe MASERU, Lesotho —Crowds of women, bundled up in wooly
Palestinians who were injured during a food distribution at a center run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.-backed organization approved by Israel, receive treatment on the floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 19, 2025. Mariam Dagga/AP hide caption toggle caption Mariam Dagga/AP DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip —
This image from a video provided by QDND shows a body being carried on stretcher after a tourist boat capsized in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam on Saturday, July 19, 2025. AQDND/AP hide caption toggle caption AQDND/AP HA LONG BAY, Vietnam — A boat carrying tourists capsized during a sudden thunderstorm in Vietnam on Saturday afternoon
M23 rebels stand with their weapons in Kibumba, in the eastern of Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec. 23, 2022. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption toggle caption Moses Sawasawa/AP DAKAR, Senegal — Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels on Saturday signed a declaration of principles in Qatar to end decades-long fighting in eastern Congo that commits them to a
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press at the Federal Senate in Brasilia on July 17, 2025. MATEUS BONOMI/AFP hide caption toggle caption MATEUS BONOMI/AFP RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The ongoing feud between the U.S. and Brazil escalated on Friday after Brazil's Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro—an ally of Donald
Good morning. You're reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today's top stories The Israeli military says it carried out an airstrike targeting senior Hamas officials in Qatar's capital of Doha yesterday. The strike marks
Former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili speaks to demonstrators of hundreds of Georgian companies as they went out into streets suspending their work during an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Jan. 15. Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP hide caption toggle caption Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP The country of Georgia is now a "weak Democracy" following last year's parliamentary
Damage is seen after an Israeli strike targeted a compound that hosted Hamas' political leadership in Doha, Qatar, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Jon Gambrell/AP hide caption toggle caption Jon Gambrell/AP Middle East Israel launches airstrike targeting Hamas members in Qatar The Israeli military carried out unprecedented airstrikes Tuesday on senior Hamas leaders in a suburb
Polish police and military on Wednesday inspect damage to a house from the debris of a drone that was shot down in the village of Wyryki-Wola, eastern Poland. Poland says it shot down several Russian attack drones that violated Polish airspace in overnight Russian attacks on neighboring Ukraine. Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Gen Z group protests against corruption and the ban on many social media platforms by the government in Nepal on Monday. Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Ambir Tolang/NurPhoto via Getty Images Over the past 48 hours, Nepal has been rocked by deadly mass protests led by young people who are
