A senior Iranian official says Tehran finds the latest U.S. response to a proposal to end the war “insufficient” and warns of attacks on regional data centers and cables if fighting intensifies again. Meanwhile, Israel’s former attorney general took the witness stand in corruption cases against Benjamin Netanyahu, as the political future of the country’s…
CAIRO (AP) — The airport in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, was attacked again on Saturday and evacuated, two regional officials said, two days after three Saudi citizens including a pilot were killed as the kingdom faces an extraordinary series of assaults in the new front in the Iran war. A missile struck a passenger…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian strikes killed at least seven people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, officials said Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel that Kyiv warned would help bankroll Moscow’s war in Ukraine. Three children were among the seven people killed when Russian aerial bombs hit…
MEKELLE, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s federal police fanned out Friday across the regional capital of Tigray after anti-government forces pulled out, calling on residents over loudspeakers to help establish a new administration following the rebels’ withdrawal. The TPLF had joined six other opposition groups last month in an alliance seeking to oust Ethiopian Prime Minister…
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Simon was headed toward part of Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday and was forecast to get much stronger. U.S. forecasters issued a hurricane warning for parts of the central and southwest coast, where hurricane-force winds were expected within 36 hours. Simon had maximum sustained winds of 120 kph (75 mph) early Friday…
SHERBROOKE, Quebec (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada’s future will be decided by Canadians, pushing back on Elon Musk’s call for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from Canada. “The future of Canada will be decided by Canadians and the priorities of Canadians, the priorities of the people of Quebec,”…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated Moscow’s long-held position that Russia is not planning to attack European countries but will respond to aggression with “all weapons” in its arsenal. In remarks at a foreign policy forum, Putin accused the West and Europe of escalating tensions by talking about preparing for a war with Moscow in…
CARABALLEDA, Venezuela (AP) — The collapse of public housing buildings in the Venezuelan state of La Guaira following two catastrophic earthquakes in June can be traced back to their beginnings in 2010, experts and former officials told The Associated Press. It was then that mudslides and heavy rain displaced more than 100,000 people across the…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police said Monday that another body of a woman was discovered in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, bringing the total number of female victims recently found in the area to 11. The spate of killings and bodies of women discovered in the area since July has sparked fears that a serial…