DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran stopped communicating with mediators after Israel threatened to bomb Beirut as it fights the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported Tuesday. Halting communication likely is a means to further pressure U.S....
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to be the acting director of national intelligence — putting a real estate scion and fierce Trump loyalist in a key national security post as the U.S. remains at war with Iran. Trump made...
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — For feverish patients in an Ebola outbreak with no approved medicine or vaccine, there is little comfort. But Arlette Basekawike, a volunteer for the United Nations food agency, is doing her best. Her hair covered by a pink bonnet, she prepares porridge, omelets and bread for...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Five of the 18 American cruise ship passengers who have been staying at a national quarantine facility in Nebraska after being exposed to hantavirus are going home, U.S. health officials said Monday. The five people will complete their monitoring at home after remaining...
BANGKOK (AP) — More than a dozen rescue and charity groups used excavation machinery to recover bodies Monday after a massive blast from stored mining explosives in northeastern Myanmar. The explosion occurred at midday Sunday in Kaungtup village, Namhkam township in Shan state near the Chinese...
A bus crashed into vehicles slowing for a work zone on Interstate 95 in Virginia early Friday, killing five people and injuring dozens, including the driver, authorities said. The crash happened at about 2:35 a.m. on southbound I-95 in Stafford County, near Quantico. All five of the people who died...
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli troops entered a southern Lebanese village early Friday, pushing deeper into the country as Lebanese and Israeli military officials held direct talks at the Pentagon over the deadly conflict. The entrance of Israel’s troops into the village of Dibbine, near the town of...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has revoked the visa of a Chinese national working for the state news agency Xinhua in the United States, in an apparent reciprocal act to Beijing 's decision to expel a New York Times reporter. A person familiar with the matter confirmed the visa...
Tokyo, May 28-Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in a speech to the Diet, Japan 's parliament, on Thursday vowed to take the initiative in maintaining a rules-based maritime order. "All states, regardless of size or power, are equal, have a voice and are free to pursue their...
Governor Daniel R. Fernando has called on Bulakenyos to proudly display the Philippine flag in their homes, schools, offices, and establishments from May 28 to June 12, in observance of National Flag Days and in commemoration of the 128th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Philippine Independence....
Japan 's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted a banquet for visiting Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Wednesday evening. In a speech at the Homei-Den banquet hall, Emperor Naruhito said that he expects Japan and the Philippines...
