Hezbollah fighters shoot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon
(): The militant Hezbollah group said it shot down an Israeli drone over southern Lebanon on Saturday, after hours Israeli drone strikes killed at least one person and wounded others. Hezbollah said in a statement that its fighters struck the Hermes 900 Kochav drone, saying such aircraft have been targeting militants...
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Hostage families urge ceasefire
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Ex-Iranian parl speaker Ali Larijani registers as presidential candidate
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Pak PM to visit China next week to plan bilateral growth, launch CPEC phase
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Paks Defence Minister asks Imran to keep mum
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Russian missiles kill 4 in Kharkiv
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Orban pushes back on NATO proposals to further assist Ukraine
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Berlin lets Ukraine use German weapons against targets in Russia
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Biden eases ban on Ukraine using US arms for strikes in Russia
President Joe Biden has given Ukraine the go-ahead to use American weaponry to strike inside Russia for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, according to three US officials familiar with the matter. The officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, underscored that the US policy calling on Ukraine not...
‘Kim Jong Un supervised drills simulating preemptive attacks on South Korea’
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised drills involving the firing of nuclear-capable multiple rocket launchers to show the country’s ability to carry out a preemptive attack on rival South Korea, state media reported Friday. North Korea has simulated nuclear strikes on South Korea numerous times, but the latest drills came...
Indian-American seventh-grader wins Spelling Bee title
Bruhat Soma, a 12-year-old Indian-American seventh-grade student from Florida, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after he spelt 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, maintaining the dominance of the children from the small ethnic community in the prestigious competition. Bruhat emerged victorious in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday,...
Top US, Chinese defense officials seek to restore communications as tensions rise in Indo-Pacific
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with his Chinese counterpart for more than an hour Friday, as the two countries seek to repair lines of communications between their militaries that could be critical as tensions continue to rise between the two in the Indo-Pacific region. The meeting behind closed...
S Africa heading for ‘coalition country’
South Africa was heading closer to the reality of a national coalition government for the first time Friday as partial election results put the ruling African Nation Congress well short of a majority. With more than half of votes counted across the country’s nine provinces, the ANC had received just under...
Cop dies in ambush shooting that killed two others in US
(): A Minneapolis police officer who was killed Thursday had responded to a shooting call and was providing medical attention to a man when he was ambushed in a shooting that killed two other people including the suspected gunman, authorities said. Minneapolis Officer Jamal Mitchell was trying to help an...
16 killed, 35 wounded in joint US-British airstrikes
Joint British-US airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll by the rebels from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over their attacks on shipping. Three US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity...
