Israel’s military says it responded with artillery fire after a rocket was launched from southern Lebanon. A statement said the rocket “exploded adjacent to the Blue Line in Israeli territory”, referring to the UN-demarcated frontier between the states. Lebanon’s state … Read More
Secret Service review of visitor logs and surveillance cameras will seek to determine how drug came to be in the West Wing A formal laboratory test of a white powder found in a “highly-trafficked” area of the White House has … Read More
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, conducted a tour of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Wednesday and expressed satisfaction with a controversial plan to release treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean. Grossi observed … Read More
Canada’s federal government has said it will pull all its advertising from Facebook and Instagram. It follows parent company Meta’s move to restrict news content for Canadians after parliament passed a law that will force tech firms to pay media … Read More
Yellen heads to Beijing this week in move one expert calls an attempt to ‘put some floor’ under strained economic ties US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen will visit Beijing this week, marking the second trip by a cabinet official to … Read More
Days of protests across France saw escalations to violence including an apparent assassination attempt of the mayor of a Paris suburb, Vincent Jeanbrun, and the burning of public buildings and transport. The seventh day of protests are expected to continue … Read More
July 3 (UPI) — Israeli forces overnight launched a massive military operation in the occupied West Bank, targeting what officials said was a terrorist headquarters within a Palestinian city’s refugee camp. The Israel Defense Forces said early Monday that security … Read More
Travel chaos is plaguing US airports on the eve of Independence Day, with more than 100 million Americans under extreme weather warnings. More than 1,400 flights were delayed or cancelled as of Monday morning. It follows one of the busiest … Read More
Home Office sent 24,083 letters of intent warning refugees they were being considered for forcible removal More than 24,000 asylum seekers from about one-third of the world’s countries could face removal to Rwanda by the UK Home Office in the … Read More
The Supreme Court released three rulings on Thursday, one of which was the behemoth 6-3 decision to throw out affirmative action in higher education; the other was a ruling about a trademark infringement case. The final is an important, but … Read More