Master Sgt. (res.) Yona Efraim Feldbaum hit by sniper fire targeting excavator; retaliatory strikes said to kill over 100; military says 30 terror commanders targeted An Israeli reservist soldier was killed in an attack carried out by Palestinian terror operatives against troops stationed in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the…
BEIRUT, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s army has blown up so many Hezbollah arms caches that it has run out of explosives, as it races to meet a year-end deadline to disarm the Shi’ite militia in the south of the country under a ceasefire agreed with Israel, two sources told Reuters. The explosives shortage, which…
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wrapped up her first summit talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo on Tuesday, with the new Japanese leader pledging to realize “a new golden age” for their countries’ alliance. Security was tight in the capital, with some 18,000 police officers mobilized for the meeting, a crucial test of Takaichi’s…
Melissa has made an historic landfall in Jamaica, and continues to unleash catastrophic flooding, landslides and destructive winds. It will then target eastern Cuba and the southeast Bahamas. Here’s the very latest. Hurricane Melissa is now moving across Jamaica and Cuba with catastrophic amounts of wind and rainfall. The devastating hurricane made landfall earlier this…
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Reuters) – The United States signed a flurry of deals on trade and critical minerals with four Southeast Asian partners on Sunday, looking to address trade imbalances and diversify supply chains amid tighter export curbs on rare earths by China. U.S. President Donald Trump, who is in Kuala Lumpur to attend…
Libertarian president’s party wins 41.5% in Buenos Aires province, increasing lower house seats from 37 to 64 Argentine President Javier Milei secured a decisive victory Sunday in midterm elections, expanding his control of Congress and giving his government fresh momentum to push forward with deep spending cuts and sweeping free-market reforms. The result gives Milei’s…
CAIRO (AP) — Sudanese paramilitary forces seized a key military base in the army’s last stronghold in the western Darfur region, activists and aid groups said Monday, a significant blow in the war that has gripped the country since 2023. Medical groups reported dozens of civilians killed. Over a quarter-million people — half of them…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deployed a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and its complement of guided missile destroyers to the South American coast Friday, according to his top spokesperson. Sean Parnell, who is Hegseth’s assistant defense secretary for public affairs, announced that the USS Gerald R. Ford, its on-board warplanes, and the other ships in its…
The populist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany Party, labeled “extremist” by German authorities, wants to build closer ties to President Trump. BERLIN — It was 1885 when Friedrich Trump first left Bad Dürkheim, in Germany’s western Palatinate region, for the United States. Now, 140 years later, the populist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party wants to…
The world’s two largest economies are once again battling for dominance. In the latest exchange between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Beijing is using financial markets as leverage in the trade war, betting that a sustained downturn might pressure Trump to compromise. The Trump administration, however, has made clear it will…