BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese army on Saturday withdrew its troops from a base in a southern Lebanese village after Israeli troops advanced in an area nearby, a military official said. The departure from the army barracks in Kfar Tebnit came as the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for about 20 locations, including the …
Tel Aviv, ISRAEL (AP) — The United States and Iran appear close to a deal to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Friday the U.S. and Iran agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East and that mediators were …
June 13 (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday that the United States and Iran have agreed to a framework for a peace deal that would end the months-long conflict in the Middle East, with a final text of the deal reached. Pakistan is now preparing for an electronic signing expected within …
NEW YORK, June 12 (Reuters) – Kenneth Leech, a former star bond manager at Western Asset Management Co, pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing a probe into alleged “cherry-picking,” the assigning of profitable trades to favored investors and losing trades to other investors. Leech admitted to one count of obstructing a U.S. Securities and Exchange …
BRUSSELS, June 12 (Reuters) – European Union countries agreed on Friday to maintain the current three-hour flight delay threshold for compensation in the EU’s next set of airline passenger rights and to ask for more price transparency on fees for carry-on items, a senior EU diplomat told reporters. The 27 member states will now send …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A 3.5-meter (11-foot) shark critically injured a woman off a popular Sydney beach on Saturday, and she managed to grab onto a lifeguard’s paddleboard before they made it to shore. The 35-year-old suffered serious leg and arm injuries in the attack at 11:15 a.m. off Coogee Beach, a police statement said. …
EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, June 13 (Reuters) – Days before the kickoff of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, there was no outward sign that this desolate, trash-strewn parking lot in New Jersey would soon become one of the priciest stretches of asphalt in the tri-state area. The newly refurbished World of Blue hotel will charge …
June 13 (Reuters) – SpaceX roared into markets this past week with a valuation of more than $2 trillion, surpassing two members of Wall Street’s “Magnificent Seven” and raising a key question: Does the Mag 7 name still fit? And if not, what should replace it? The IPO, the biggest in U.S. history, vaulted SpaceX’s …
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) – Republicans want President Donald Trump to put his money where his mouth is: behind his scandal-plagued ally, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton ousted four-term Senator John Cornyn in a primary runoff last month on the heels of Trump’s 11th-hour endorsement to become the Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Texas. …
KYIV, June 13 (Reuters) – Ukrainian military has hit an oil processing and pumping facility near the village of Kotovo in Russia’s Volgograd region, causing a fire, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Saturday. It said on the Telegram app that the facility handles processing, transportation, and pumping of oil via pipelines to Russian oil …