DAMASCUS, Syria — Israel’s air force struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday, hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in the southern part of the nation. The strike came after days of clashes between pro-Syrian government gunmen and fighters who belong to the Druze…
Iran accused the United States on Thursday of “contradictory behavior and provocative statements” after Washington warned Tehran of consequences for backing Yemen’s Houthis and imposed new oil-related sanctions on it in the midst of nuclear talks. Washington and Tehran have been conducting negotiations over the past month on a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear program…
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Italy, Croatia, Spain, France and Romania were sending planes to help battle the flames, while several other countries, including North Macedonia and Cyprus, were also sending water-dropping aircraft. Israeli authorities said 10 firefighting planes were operating on Thursday morning, with another eight aircraft to arrive during the course of the day. The main highway linking…
TOKYO — It’s likely some of the tens-of-thousands of passengers were hissing with madness after a snake brought Japan’s busiest bullet train line to a halt. The slippery 39-inch reptile slithered onto an overhead power line and tangled itself, a spokesperson for line operator, JR Central, told NBC News. As a result, it shorted the…
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday urged India and Pakistan to work with each other to de-escalate tensions after last week’s Islamist militant attack in India-administered Kashmir that killed 26 people, the State Department said. Rubio spoke separately with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif while expressing support to India in combating extremism and urging Pakistan to cooperate in investigating the attack, the State Department said after Rubio’s…
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Before this week’s federal election in Canada, Derek Ouellette and his wife, Yecenia Ouellette, could never have imagined voting for anyone but a Conservative. “We were both raised Conservative and we both kind of thought, Conservative is just what you do,” Derek Ouellette, a 46-year-old insurance broker from Belle River, near Windsor, Ontario, said in…
Israel said it carried out a warning strike against an extremist group that was preparing to attack a Druze community in Syria, following through on its pledge to protect the minority group as violence spread Wednesday in Druze areas near Damascus. It was the latest Israeli strike in Syria, where Israel views the Sunni Islamists who seized power in…
Ukraine is ready to sign an agreement that would give the U.S. access to its valuable rare minerals in the hopes of ensuring continued American support for Kyiv in its grinding war with Russia, senior Ukrainian officials said Wednesday. Ukraine’s economy minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, was headed to Washington on Wednesday to help finalize the deal,…
