NEW YORK (AP) — A Legionnaires ' disease outbreak in a New York City neighborhood now counts 60 cases, but new diagnoses are slowing, health officials said Tuesday. They reported progress on inspections for the disease-causing bacteria but still haven 't pinpointed a source. No one has...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he 's escalated calls for...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of September, American and Iraqi officials said Tuesday, following a 23-year presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein and ended with much smaller operations against the Islamic State group. President Donald...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military early Wednesday reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports over Tehran’s attacks on ships trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, sparking new strikes on nations hosting American forces as an interim deal to end the war further unraveled....
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- New Supreme Class Cabin private compartments will be introduced on Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen high-speed train services in Japan in October. Central Japan Railway Co., or JR Tokai, which runs the Tokaido trains, and West Japan Railway Co., or JR West, which operates the...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- Japan 's parliament Monday passed into law a bill to establish a disaster management agency, which will act as the government 's command center for disaster reduction measures and responses. The bill was approved by a majority vote at a plenary meeting of the House...
PARIS (AP) — Ukraine and nine other countries announced Monday they were forming a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, utilizing Kyiv’s experience in fighting Russia 's full-scale invasion for over four years. “Our goal is to build a shared ballistic missile defense...
BANGKOK (AP) — Most of the people who were killed in a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar were found trapped in windowless bathrooms where they may have sought to escape the flames that claimed at least 27 lives, authorities said Monday as investigations began. The blaze at the Rong Beer Na...
CAIRO (AP) — The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said they launched missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport on Monday in response to airstrikes they blamed on Saudi Arabia that struck Sanaa International Airport earlier in the day. No casualties were reported, but...
PARIS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to Paris on Monday to ask two dozen European leaders for help developing measures against Russia 's ballistic missiles, which have pummeled his country 's power grid in the more than four years since Moscow launched a full-scale...
Oil prices jumped and early trading on Wall Street was mixed Monday after the U.S. carried out airstrikes and Iran retaliated. Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.3%, futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were unchanged and Nasdaq futures tumbled 0.8%. Chip and memory companies were dragging...
NARA (Jiji Press) -- Major Japanese printing firm Dai Nippon Printing Co. on Friday signed a partnership pact with a cultural property research institute in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on research and development for a next-generation heritage museum utilizing digital technologies. DNP and the...
