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…
High school students across New York plan to participate in a walkout later this month to protest transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports. The statewide demonstration, set for Oct. 24, is being organized by The Coalition to Protect Kids, a group that has strong backing from the Catholic Church and the New York Republican and…
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) – The U.S. said on Tuesday it may ask a judge to force Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google to divest parts of its business, such as its Chrome browser and Android operating system, that it says are used to maintain an illegal monopoly in online search. In a landmark…
Two Chinese nationals have been killed and at least 10 people injured in a suspected suicide attack near Karachi airport in Pakistan. A third body, not yet officially identified, is thought to be that of the attacker, the BBC understands. The Chinese embassy in Pakistan said the explosion on Sunday night was a “terrorist attack”…
BELLEAIR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s storm-battered Gulf Coast raced against a Category 5 hurricane Monday as workers sprinted to pick up heaps of appliances and other street debris left over from Helene two weeks ago and highways were clogged with people fleeing ahead of the storm. The center of Hurricane Milton could come ashore…
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third-largest city Haifa and Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon on Monday, one year after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war. Israelis held ceremonies and protests to mark the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack as…
A top Sudanese general has said the army will press on with its offensive despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 17-month civil war. “Peace talks can go on, but the army will not stop for that,” Assistant Commander-in-Chief Lt Gen Ibrahim Gabir told the BBC. He was speaking just days after the…