At least a dozen people were arrested as Los Angeles descended into chaos Wednesday night after the Dodgers beat the Yankees in the World Series — with belligerent baseball fans setting fire to a bus while others clashed with cops and looters ran amok. Six people were arrested for commercial burglary, four for receiving stolen…
The scale of what lurks beneath the surface could be vast – can the Liberal leader defy the odds and win a fourth term? Justin Trudeau, who promised “sunny ways” as he won an election on a wave of public fatigue with an incumbent Conservative government, is now facing his darkest and most uncertain political…
NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon was released from federal prison early Tuesday and immediately resumed his full-throated support for the former president, urging Republicans to turn out in large numbers next week to defeat Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. Bannon served a four-month sentence for defying a subpoena in…
Oct. 29 (UPI) — Hezbollah on Tuesday announced that its deputy secretary general, Nasim Qassem, will serve as its new leader. Qassem was elected to replace long-time Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, ending an ongoing succession crisis to lead the Iran-backed terror group. Nasrallah was killed last month in Beirut in airstrikes Israeli Prime Minister…
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, Oct 28 (Reuters) – The U.S. will not impose new limits on Ukraine’s use of American weapons if North Korea enters the fight, the Pentagon said on Monday, as NATO said North Korean military units had been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region. The North Korea deployment is fanning Western concerns that the 2-1/2-year conflict…
Iran has said it has the right to defend itself following Israeli airstrikes in retaliation for the Islamic republic’s missile strikes earlier this month, but one Iranian expert has told Newsweek that Tehran may not want to escalate hostilities immediately. Multiple explosions were heard in Tehran and in the western province of Ilam and southwestern…
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….