PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A man shot and killed two people in a drug store parking lot near the TPC Sawgrass and then escaped by going onto TPC Sawgrass, leading The Players Championship to delay opening gates as a precaution before the third round Saturday morning, authorities said. St. Johns County Sheriff Rob …
ROME (AP) — Thousands of people protested Saturday against wars in the Middle East and judicial reforms proposed by Italy’s conservative government — linking international tensions with a growing domestic political battle before a national referendum. The March 22–23 referendum on changes to the judicial system has become a major political test for Prime Minister …
SYDNEY, March 15 (Reuters) – Three members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who had sought asylum in Australia have decided to return to Iran, the government said on Sunday. Australia granted humanitarian visas to seven Iranian footballers last week after they sought asylum, saying they feared persecution if they returned home after they failed …
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Another three members of the Iran’s women’s soccer team who accepted refugee visas to stay in Australia have decided to return to their homeland, an Australian government minister said on Sunday. The departure leaves three of an initial seven squad members in Australia. “Overnight, three members of the Iranian Women’s Football …
March 14 (Reuters) – The Florida Federation of College Republicans disbanded its University of Florida chapter and asked the school to remove it as a student organization due to alleged misconduct that includes antisemitism, the university said on Saturday. The request was based on the federation’s own investigation that uncovered a “pattern of conduct that …
BAGHDAD, March 14 (Reuters) – Three members of Iraq’s Shi’ite Popular Mobilisation Forces were killed in a strike on PMF headquarters in Baghdad earlier morning, security sources said on Saturday. The sources provide no further details on the incident. (Reporting by Muayad Hameed, Editing by Louise Heavens) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright directed a Texas-based oil and gas company Friday to restore operations in waters off southern California that were damaged by a 2015 oil spill, invoking the Defense Production Act. Restoring Sable Offshore Corp.’s Santa Ynez unit and pipeline off Santa Barbara aims to address supply disruption risks, …
The Trump administration has proposed the construction of an underground facility to screen visitors to the White House. The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to consider plans for the approximately 33,000-square-foot visitor screening facility that would be built entirely on federal land in Sherman Park, which is located southeast of the White House. The …
FRANKFURT, March 14 (Reuters) – The Swiss government said on Saturday that it discussed requests by U.S. military and official aircraft to fly over the country, and based on its law of neutrality, rejected two Iran-related war flights but permitted three others. “The law on neutrality prohibits overflights by parties to the conflict that serve …
March 14 (Reuters) – Russian air defence units have downed 65 Ukrainian drones headed for Moscow throughout the day on Saturday, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Sobyanin, writing on Telegram, said the drones were intercepted over an 11-hour period beginning around noon (0900 GMT). Crews were examining the fragments at the sites where they fell. The …