Israeli strike kills three Lebanese medics, Hezbollah retaliates
CAIRO — Three Lebanese paramedics were killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday. “Israeli forces targeted a team from the Lebanese Civil Defence as they responded to fires sparked by recent Israeli airstrikes,” More...
Super Typhoon Yagi kills four in Vietnam after casualties in China and Philippines
Asia’s most powerful storm this year made landfall in northern Vietnam on Saturday, the meteorological agency said, killing at least four people after tearing through China’s island of Hainan and the Philippines. Super More...
NFL commissioner wants to double the number of games played internationally
SAO PAULO — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday he would like the league to have as many as 16 international games in a season. “The ownership’s approved eight games already,” Goodell said before More...
Sergio Mendes, Brazilian bossa nova music innovator, dies at 83
RIO DE JANEIRO — Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian Grammy-winning musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months of battling the effects of long Covid. He was 83. The death More...
Man arrested in alleged plan to kill Jewish people in New York around Oct. 7 anniversary
A Pakistani citizen residing in Canada faces a federal charge for a plan to attack a New York City Jewish center on or around Oct. 7 in support of the Islamic State group, prosecutors said Friday. Authorities More...
U.S. prepares for possible arrival of more severe strain of mpox
Senior Biden administration officials said Friday that the United States is preparing for the possible arrival of a more severe version of mpox, which has taken off in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other More...
White House requests investigation of American woman’s killing in West Bank
The White House on Friday requested that Israel investigate the death of a 26-year-old American woman, Aysenur Eygi, in the occupied West Bank. Earlier, a protester told The Associated Press that Israeli forces More...
Hamas hostage video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin should be a ‘wake-up call,’ parents say
A propaganda video released by Hamas on Thursday showing American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, one of six Hamas hostages killed last weekend in Gaza, should be an “immediate wake-up call to the world” to More...
U.S. rolls out new chip-related export controls as China makes industry advances
The Biden administration is rolling out new export controls on critical technologies, including quantum computing and semiconductor goods, as China makes advances in the global chips industry. Released by the More...
China halts foreign adoptions of its children
BEIJING — The Chinese government is no longer allowing foreign adoptions of the country’s children, a spokesperson said Thursday. The only exception will be for blood relatives adopting a child or a stepchild, More...
