TRAFFIC CRASH: After the accident, the bus, which had been headed from Sao Paulo to Vitoria da Conquista, caught fire, and at least 38 people died
At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a “terrible tragedy.” The accident in Minas Gerais state, involving a bus that caught fire in the collision, was the worst on Brazil’s federa
Two US Navy pilots were shot down yesterday over the Red Sea in an apparent “friendly fire” incident, the US military said, marking the most serious incident to threaten troops in over a year of US targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Both pilots were recovered alive after ejecting from their stricken a
A lightning rebel offensive early this month caught Syria’s ruling clan off guard. Then-president Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia on Dec. 8, leaving behind many of his collaborators, some of whom sought refuge in neighboring countries. According to two sources, the ousted president, who fled to Mosco
Blake Lively has accused her It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment on the set of the movie and a subsequent effort to “destroy” her reputation in a legal complaint. The complaint obtained by The Associated Press, which the New York Times reported was filed on Friday
Choristers sing at Salisbury Cathedral in Salisbury, England, on Saturday.
MILITANTS TARGETED: The US said its forces had killed an IS leader in Deir Ezzor, as it increased its activities in the region following al-Assad’s overthrow
Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria’s new leader, a senior US diplomat said on Friday following “positive messages” from a first meeting that included a promise to fight terrorism. Barbara Leaf, Washington’s top diplomat for the Middle East, made the comments after
SUPPORT: Elon Musk’s backing for the far-right AfD is also an implicit rebuke of center-right Christian Democratic Union leader Friedrich Merz, who is leading polls
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took a swipe at Elon Musk over his political judgement, escalating a spat between the German government and the world’s richest person. Scholz, speaking to reporters in Berlin on Friday, was asked about a post Musk made on his X platform earlier the same day asserting t
In the mid-19th century, Dutch colonial officials climbing an Indonesian volcano spotted an ancient statue meant to serve as protection against misfortune, looted it and took it to the Netherlands. Today, the volcanic rock likeness of the Hindu god Ganesha, bearing four arms and the head of an eleph
The IMF’s executive board on Friday approved a US$1.1 billion disbursement to Ukraine as part of an ongoing loan program to provide budget support. The approval bolsters Ukraine as it faces continued Russian attacks, and comes just more than a month after staff at the IMF completed the sixth review
A key former ally of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would vote to topple the government, a move that would likely plunge the country into an election early next year unless Trudeau seeks a temporary suspension of parliament. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP), sa
A US judge on Friday ruled in favor of Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software allowing unauthorized surveillance.US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, granted a motion by WhatsApp and fou
NEW ERA? US diplomats, who have not been to Damascus on a formal mission in many years, are to meet representatives from HTS, who recently adopted a moderate tone
US diplomats are in Syria to meet the country’s new Islamist-led rulers, the US Department of State said Friday, as outside powers seek assurances they would be moderate and inclusive.The ouster of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of abuses and years of civil war, but it has rai
Rescuers say they have expanded a search for trapped survivors in quake-rocked Vanuatu to “numerous places of collapse” beyond the capital yesterday, after the death toll climbed to at least 10.A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the main island on Tuesday, toppling concrete buildings in Port Vila
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is planning to fly private crew missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in partnership with a California-based start-up, the two companies said on Thursday.The missions are contingent on approval by NASA and involve the firm Vast, which also aims to launch the world’s fi
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said that Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed nine people, after the group fired a missile toward Israel, badly damaging a school.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened further retaliation.The Houthis, who control most of Yemen’s population centers,
NEW SECURITY DEAL: The money would be used to fund and train Solomon Islands police forces to ‘reduce any need for outside support,’ Australia’s prime minister said
Australia yesterday said it would pay for more police in the Solomon Islands and create a police training center in its capital, Honiara, where Chinese law enforcement instructors are already based under a bilateral security pact with Beijing.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the count
CONTROVERSIAL: Han Duck-soo said he would veto opposition-backed bills to give greater state financial assistance programs to the agriculture and fisheries industries
South Korea’s acting leader yesterday said he would veto a spate of contentious bills sponsored by the main opposition party, deepening political strife in the wake of parliament’s impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.The ruling and opposition parties have been bickering over how much
PRESSURE: Republicans who vote for the legislative package, which is to fund the government until Jan. 20 next year ‘should, and will, be primaried,’ Trump said
The US Congress has two days to avert a partial government shutdown after US president-elect Donald Trump rejected a bipartisan deal late on Wednesday and demanded lawmakers also raise the nation’s debt ceiling before he takes office next month.Trump pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to r
The UN envoy to Syria on Wednesday called for “free and fair” elections after the ouster of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, voicing hope for a political solution for Kurdish-held areas.Al-Assad fled Syria following a lightning offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), more
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