DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian Revolutionary Guard members now regularly show the public in Tehran how to handle Kalashnikov-style assault rifles. Parades through the capital feature military vehicles mounted with belt-fed Soviet-era machine guns. And at one mass wedding, a ballistic missile, like the one that rained down cluster munitions on Israel, adorned …
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The World Health Organization said on Wednesday the risk of global spread of the Ebola virus in Congo and Uganda is high at national and regional levels, but low at the global level. The risk assessment came as the leader of the WHO team in Congo said the outbreak, which has …
By Tom Polansek and Julie Ingwersen TULIA, Texas, May 20 (Reuters) – Scott Irlbeck crouched in a field of stunted wheat plants in a parched stretch of West Texas and slipped his hand into a crack wide enough to swallow it. Last autumn, Irlbeck planted a crop that barely grew because rain never came. He …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterWEDNESDAY, May 20, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Some people with sleep apnea might be able to shed their CPAP masks in favor of a once-nightly pill, a new study says. The experimental pill, called AD109, helps treat sleep apnea by making a person’s airways resistant to collapse, researchers say. Importantly, nearly …
ANKARA, May 20 (Reuters) – Turkey said on Wednesday that Germany would send it a Patriot missile defence system for a six-month deployment from June to replace a system deployed as part of NATO measures in southeast Turkey to bolster air defences amid the war in Iran. In March, Ankara said a U.S. Patriot system …
Opposition leaders in the Bahamas are demanding an investigation into a suspected drug trafficker who survived a recent plane crash near Florida and was allegedly found with roughly $30,000, according to a U.S. federal agent. The money was inside a bag labeled with the name of an unidentified high-ranking politician from the archipelago. The suspect, …
6m ago Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard warns it will take war “beyond the region” if U.S.-Israel strike the country again Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned Wednesday that any renewed U.S. or Israeli attacks would be met with retaliation “beyond the region.” In a statement, the IRGC said it still had not brought “all …
JERUSALEM, May 20 (Reuters) – Israel’s parliament is expected to vote on Wednesday on a bill to dissolve itself, potentially bringing forward by a few weeks the next national election, which surveys predict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose. An election date is yet to be set. Israel is supposed to hold elections every four …
El Paso, Texas – An active-duty U.S. Army soldier and Afghanistan war veteran told CBS News he still worries about the possibility his newly-freed wife could be deported to a country where she has no ties, putting at risk his decades-long career in the American military. Sergeant 1st Class Jose Serrano, who was deployed to …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are unhappier with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy than they were a few months ago, but they’re largely continuing to stand behind him as the war with Iran continues, a new AP-NORC poll finds. The poll comes as the war with Iran fuels higher gasoline prices, while the U.S. …