Families wait in agony for word of their loved ones taken hostage by militants

One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building bridges with her neighbors. Others include 10 members of an extended family,

Rare birdwing butterflies star in federal case

Birdwing butterflies are among the rarest and largest to grace the planet, their 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) wingspans flapping through the rainforests of Southeast Asia and Australia. Their

Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone pleads guilty to fraud

Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone admitted fraud at a court hearing Thursday after prosecutors charged him with failing to declare millions of dollars held in a trust in

Zelenskyy at NATO defense ministers meeting seeking more support

For the first time, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the world yesterday to make a personal

Israeli village near Gaza border lies in ruin

On the road approaching this rural village, the bodies of militants lie scattered between the shells of burned-out cars. Walls and doors of what used to

Bulgaria arrests 12 people for violating EU sanctions on exports to Russia

Bulgarian police have arrested 12 people accused of illegally exporting dual-use goods to Russia that can be used by the Russian military in the war in Ukraine.

Under heavy bombing, Palestinians move from place to place to discover nowhere is safe

Over 180,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into United Nations shelters as Israeli warplanes pound the tiny territory of 2.3 million people after their Hamas

Israel declares war, bombards Gaza Strip after unprecedented Hamas attack

The Israeli government promised yesterday to hunt down Hamas fighters and to punish the Gaza Strip following a surprise weekend attack killed more than 700 people in

Nobel economics goes to professor for advancing understanding of workplace gender gap

The Nobel economics prize was awarded yesterday to Harvard University professor Claudia Goldin for research that has advanced the understanding of the gender gap in the

UK’s Labour Party says if elected it will track down billions lost to COVID-19 fraud

Britain’s main opposition  Labour economy spokeswoman Rachel Reeves is due to outline the plan in a speech today at the party’s annual conference. She says the

Israel battles Hamas for a second day after mass incursion and trades fire with Hezbollah

Israeli soldiers battled Hamas fighters in the streets of southern Israel today and launched retaliation strikes that leveled buildings in Gaza, while in northern Israel a brief exchange of strikes

198 killed in Gaza in Israeli retaliation for a Hamas assault into Israel

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza says at least 198 people have been killed and at least 1,610 wounded in the territory in Israel’s retaliation after a wide-ranging Hamas assault into Israel.

Trump’s intensifying rhetoric offers insight into how he might govern again

Over the past two weeks, Donald Trump said shoplifters should be immediately shot, suggested the United States’ top general be executed and mocked a political

Jon Fosse, a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins the Nobel Prize in literature

Norwegian writer Jon Fosse, whose work tackles birth, death, faith and the other “elemental stuff” of life in spare Nordic prose, won the Nobel Prize for Literature

Meta and X questioned over lack of rules against AI-generated political deepfakes

Deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence are having their moment this year, at least when it comes to making it look, or sound, like celebrities did something uncanny. Tom Hanks

Trump skipped the GOP debate again. This time, his rivals took him on directly

Several of Donald Trump’s rivals stepped up their attacks against him in the second Republican presidential debate yesterday , urgently trying to dent the former president’s commanding

Half of Nagorno-Karabakh’s population flees as separatist government dissolve

The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh said yesterday it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by year’s end after a nearly three-decade

Belarus’ top diplomat says he can’t imagine his nation entering the war in Ukraine alongside Russia

The foreign minister of Belarus, which has a strategic partnership with Russia, says he cannot envision a situation where his country would enter the war in

A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq has killed around 100 people and injured 150

A raging fire seemingly caused by fireworks set off to celebrate a Christian wedding consumed a hall packed with guests in northern Iraq, killing around 100 people and

Taylor Swift is a fan of Travis Kelce and suddenly, so is everyone else

Taylor Swift’s  Following the 12-time Grammy Award winner’s appearance at Arrowhead Stadium, jersey sales for the All-Pro tight-end seemingly skyrocketed. According to sportswear and fan merchandise

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