DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A tenuous ceasefire appeared to be holding Saturday after the United States struck two Iranian oil tankers, while the country that hosts the U.S. Navy’s regional headquarters said it arrested dozens of people it alleged were linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Attacks Friday cast doubt on the tenuous month-old …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge weighing the future of an expansive Washington park insisted this week she had no intention of becoming Amy Poehler, the actress who spent seven seasons memorably playing the head of a local parks and recreation department. The project has been on his mind lately. During an hour-plus speech Monday …
STOCKHOLM, May 9 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday Europe wanted to work to keep the NATO alliance functioning, despite differences with the United States that the Iran war has exposed. Tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and European NATO partners have raised questions about the future of NATO. Already high …
A plane hit a pedestrian on the runway of the Denver International Airport during takeoff, airport authorities said. A Frontier Airlines plane, on route from Denver to Los Angeles International Airport, “reported striking a pedestrian during takeoff at DEN at approximately 11:19 p.m. on Friday,” the airport’s official X account wrote. Neither the airport nor …
Health and wellness advice is available in abundance on social media — from trendy to informative to straight-up disinformation — and you’re far from alone in seeing it. A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that about 4 in 10 U.S. adults — and around half of those under 50 — get health …
By Yurii Kovalenko and Vitalii Hnidyi KYIV/KHARKIV, May 9 (Reuters) – Ukrainians welcomed a three-day ceasefire brokered by the U.S. as a much-needed break from years of attacks from Russia as it came into effect on Saturday, even though the Kremlin said a longer-term peace deal remained a long way off. U.S. President Donald Trump …
JAKARTA, May 9 (Reuters) – Indonesian police on Saturday arrested 321 foreign nationals, mainly from Vietnam, for alleged involvement in banned online gambling, officials said. • The suspects were arrested in an office building in Central Jakarta as authorities pursue crackdowns on online gambling — which is banned in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation — …
TENERIFE, Spain (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization arrived in Spain on Saturday to oversee the evacuation of more than 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed to the Canary Islands. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would be heading to the Spanish island of Tenerife off the …
SYDNEY, May 9 (Reuters) – Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed. The result is in line with a surge of electoral support for far-right populist parties globally. Britain’s ruling Labour party this week …
MADRID, May 9 (Reuters) – Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the Netherlands have confirmed they will send planes to evacuate nationals from their respective countries aboard the Spain-bound cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, Spain’s interior minister said in Madrid on Saturday. The European Union is sending two further planes for the remaining European …