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CAIRO, June 7 (Reuters) – An Israeli airstrike on a Hamas-led police station in the Gaza Strip killed five Palestinians and wounded at least 16 others on Sunday, health officials said, as mediators began new efforts to salvage a fragile U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal. Medics did not say how many of the casualties were police. The …
At least 12 people were wounded as gunfire erupted Saturday near a busy street festival in Ohio. Some people at the event in Toledo scrambled for cover while others rushed to help the victims. No suspects were in custody hours afterward, Toledo Deputy Police Chief Joe Heffernan said. He said it appeared that at least …
PARIS/VIENNA, June 7 (Reuters) – A draft resolution the United States has prepared and sent to other countries on the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board ahead of a meeting this week demands Iran provide “precise information” on its bombed nuclear sites and enriched uranium stocks. Iran must “provide the (International Atomic Energy) Agency with precise information …
June 7 (Reuters) – The Israeli military has struck on Sunday “terrorist” headquarters in the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh, in response to the group’s fire toward Israeli territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a joint statement. (Reporting by Steven ScheerEditing by Tomasz …
TAIPEI, June 7 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s coast guard said on Sunday that its ships had “expelled” four Chinese government ships that entered restricted waters off the island’s south after the two sides broadcast testy warnings to each other, in an escalation of tensions. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has been …
JERUSALEM, June 7 (Reuters) – A 35-year-old man was killed and five others injured in a series of shootings on Sunday in central Israel near the occupied West Bank that police described as a suspected terror attack. A police spokesperson said the suspected gunman, an Israeli Arab from the nearby Israeli city Tayibe, was also …
WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) – Disputes involving President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, immigration and firing regulatory officials have drawn a lot of attention during the Supreme Court’s current term, but the justices also are poised to decide major cases concerning U.S. “culture wars” issues such as guns and transgender athletes. The court is expected …
NEW YORK (AP) — There was a time when Donald Trump was just another celebrity sitting courtside at New York Knicks games. He was famous, but not yet flanked by Secret Service agents or defined by the politics that have left him deeply unpopular in his hometown. Now, more than a decade after attending his …
NEW YORK (AP) — Flying vampires. A musical spoof of the megahit movie “Titanic.” Another spoof, this time of golden-age Broadway musicals. And a new “Death of Salesman,” one of America’s most decorated and mournful plays. It’s Tony Awards time. Twenty-four Broadway shows will hope to nab at least one win Sunday across the 26 …
By Pacome Pabandji and Giulia Paravicini BANGUI, June 7 (Reuters) – Central African Republic has agreed to take in migrants from other countries deported by the United States, two sources with knowledge of the matter said, the latest example of the Trump administration striking deals with African states to accelerate removals.Washington has sent so-called third-country …