Oct. 28 (UPI) — In a significant political upset, Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party coalition failed to secure the 233 seats required to maintain its majority in the country’s lower house in Sunday’s general election. The result marks one of the largest political upheavals Japan has experienced in 15 years, with the yen falling to a…
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen killed 21 miners and wounded six others in Pakistan’s southwest, a police official said Friday, drawing condemnation from authorities as a search was launched for the assailants. The latest attack in the restive Balochistan province came days ahead of a major security summit being hosted in the capital. The gunmen stormed the…
The centres built by the Italian government in Albania are ready to host migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, eleven months after the agreement between the two countries was signed. Up to 400 people will initially be sent there. Exclusively male, these migrants will have been rescued by Italian ships in the Mediterranean Sea before being…
KYIV, Oct 11 (Reuters) – A Russian missile slammed into a commercial building in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region overnight, killing four people including a 16-year-old girl, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Friday. It was the fourth Russian attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa and the nearby region in the last five days….
Greetings from Tyler, Here we are on the eve of the Day of Atonement, and worrying about our situation. I can’t remember a time when we were in more trouble. The Middle East? Nobody knows what will happen, but it looks like Israel is going deep inside Lebanon, in essence pushing the terrorists back if…
The leaders of 24 countries will attend this month’s BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan, a top Kremlin aide said Thursday. South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will be among them, the department of international relations confirmed shortly after. Yury Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy aide, told journalists that 24 countries will…
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Oct 10 (Reuters) – A senior Hezbollah official eluded an Israeli assassination attempt on Thursday in Beirut, three security sources said, as Israeli strikes there killed 22 people and the U.N. said its peacekeepers in southern Lebanon were in growing danger. Wafiq Safa, who heads Hezbollah’s liaison and coordination unit responsible for working with…
(Bloomberg) — Mexico’s Congress approved a constitutional reform proposed by former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that would require annual minimum wage increases be higher than the previous year’s annual inflation rate. The Senate unanimously approved the proposal submitted to guarantee that Mexicans’ purchasing power is not eroded by annual price increases. The change would…
SIESTA KEY, Fla. − Hurricane Milton howled across the Florida Peninsula on Thursday, tearing a path of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic, killing at least 11 people and knocking out power to millions yet averting the “worst-case scenario” meteorologists, officials and residents had feared. Milton did not go quietly, though, flooding…
Omar bin Laden, a son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has been banned from returning to France where he made his home for several years before he was ordered to leave in 2023, France’s Interior Minister announced Tuesday. Born in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden has also lived in Sudan and Afghanistan. The 43-year-old…