By Joanna Plucinska, Elissa Darwish and Corina Pons LONDON/PARIS/MADRID, May 12 (Reuters) – Greg Abbott is planning his summer holiday with half an eye on the Iran war. He intends to stay closer to home in Europe and is lining up a plan B, wary of rising air fares and cancellations. The 54-year-old Britain-based Australian …
By Ju-min Park, Edward Baptist and Brenda Goh BEIJING/SEOUL, May 12 (Reuters) – From famine to nuclear war, North Koreans have had plenty to worry about over the years. Now, the upwardly mobile residents of Pyongyang face a more prosaic concern: Finding a parking spot. North Korea’s capital is experiencing a surge in passenger cars, …
AMSTERDAM, May 12 (Reuters) – Two planes with 28 passengers from the MV Hondius cruise ship, which was hit by a hantavirus outbreak, landed in the Netherlands on Tuesday and a Dutch hospital treating a hantavirus patient quarantined 12 staffers in a preventative measure. The planes landed at Eindhoven Airport shortly after midnight, carrying eight …
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, May 12 (Reuters) – Seven people, including two police officials and five civilians, were killed in a blast at a market in Lakki Marwat in north-western Pakistan, a senior police official said on Tuesday. (Reporting by Saud Mehsud, Writing by Hritam Mukherjee; Editing by Jacqueline Wong) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
May 11 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates has carried out military strikes on Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing…
President Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton Monday to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a notable comeback for the former Navy SEAL who was fired from his role as FEMA’s temporary leader last year after he defended its existence. His nomination comes as the Trump administration has increasingly signaled it is backing away from promises …
President Donald Trump on Monday nominated David Cummins to head the Transportation Security Administration — which has had a rocky few months as employees went without paychecks and security lines grew long at airports across the country. Cummins, who worked as a senior vice president at Serco, a government contractor that works with local and …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey stood firm behind a 16-team College Football Playoff expansion Monday, indicating that a disagreement with the Big Ten — which backs doubling the current bracket to 24 teams — is lingering deep into the offseason. “That focus hasn’t changed,” Sankey said at the APSE Southeast Region …
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points, Chet Holmgren made a tiebreaking dunk with 32.8 seconds to play, and the Oklahoma City Thunder swept the Los Angeles Lakers out of the second round of the NBA playoffs with a 115-110 victory in Game 4 on Monday night. Ajay Mitchell scored 10 of his …
May 12 (Reuters) – Mexico’s state oil company Pemex said late on Monday that a fire in a cooling tower inside its Salina Cruz refinery in Oaxaca had been brought under control. Pemex said six injured people had been taken to hospital, with no risk to the nearby population. (Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; …