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April 24 – Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288 civilians were killed. The ministry released footage of Amjad Yousef’s arrest in the Al-Ghab Plain area of …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The eyes are the windows not only to the soul, but also to a person’s health, a new study says. They found that people had a higher risk of chronic disease if they had advanced aging of their retinas — the light-sensitive layer of …
Washington — Days after the United States opened its military campaign against IranPresident Trump sought to project confidence in the nation’s war footing, declaring that America possessed a “virtually unlimited supply” of key munitions and could fight wars “forever” using them. The remark conveyed a familiar image of American military power, a projection of being …
The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet, rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. …
A prominent member of Hezbollah’s political wing, Lebanese parliamentarian Ali Fayyad, said in a statement on Friday that the three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire announced the previous day by President Trump in Washington was “meaningless” in light of continued “hostile acts” by Israel. Fayyad, a longtime member of the Iranian-backed group which is both …
LONDON (AP) — A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives is set to fall Friday as parliamentary time runs out. Though the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was passed by elected lawmakers in the House of Commons last June, the U.K.’s revising …
TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) – Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to expand evacuation orders to more than 3,000 people, with the blazes still uncontained, media reports said. The blaze broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a mountainous area in Iwate Prefecture, followed …
The U.S. military’s top uniformed and top civilian officials will take questions from the press on the Iran war Friday morning, as a weeks-long U.S.-Iran ceasefire remains in place — but with both sides ratcheting up their competition for control over shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan …
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday refused to be drawn into a dispute with the United States over reports that the Pentagon is weighing whether to punish members of NATO that fail to support American operations in the Iran war. Among those in the firing line is Spain, which has …
By Dan Peleschuk and Sergiy Karazy CHORNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, Ukraine, April 24 (Reuters) – Denys Khomenko betrays no emotion recalling the night last year when a Russian strike drone tore into the protective arc covering the part of the Chornobyl nuclear plant that suffered the world’s worst nuclear disaster – narrowly avoiding another tragedy. …