Israeli strike on Beirut kills 5 as deadly rocket fire hits Israel

Agence France Presse 11/19/2024

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israel staged a new bombing raid on central Beirut Monday, killing five people according to the health ministry, as firefighters said a rocket launched from Lebanon killed one woman in Israel. The Hamas-run interior…

Sweden, Finland urge residents to be ready for war

Agence France Presse 11/19/2024

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden on Monday began sending millions of pamphlets advising residents how to prepare for possible war and Finland launched a new website, as Ukraine fights the grinding three-year Russian invasion. The Nordic neighbors have…

Law and Disorder: Thai police station comes under monkey attack

Agence France Presse 11/18/2024

BANGKOK — Police in central Thailand said they barricaded themselves into their own station over the weekend, after a menacing mob of 200 escaped monkeys ran riot on the town. The human inhabitants of Lopburi have long…

Pepito: Filipinos clean up after 6th major storm hit PH in weeks

Agence France Presse 11/18/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Filipinos cleared fallen trees and repaired damaged houses on Monday after the sixth major storm to batter the Philippines in a month smashed flimsy buildings, knocked out power and claimed at least one life.…

Biden: Ukraine can use US long-range missiles to strike Russia

Agence France Presse 11/18/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — US President Joe Biden has cleared Kyiv to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official told AFP on Sunday, hours after Russia targeted Ukraine’s power grid in a deadly…

11 killed, 48 wounded in Israeli strikes in Lebanon’s south

Agence France Presse 11/18/2024

Israeli strikes Sunday have killed 11 people and wounded dozens more in Lebanon’s southern Tyr region, the Lebanese health ministry said. “The raids of the Israeli enemy on villages in the Tyr district have left 11 dead…

Pepito weakens into a typhoon as it crosses Luzon

Agence France Presse 11/18/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Typhoon Pepito (international name: Man-yi) lashed the Philippines’ most populous island on Sunday, with the national weather service warning of flooding, landslides and huge waves as the storm sweeps across the archipelago nation. Pepito…

‘Welcome back’: Trump, Biden shake hands in White House

Agence France Presse 11/14/2024

WASHINGTON, United States — Donald Trump made a triumphant return to the White House on Wednesday, where outgoing President Joe Biden offered a show of civility to the bitter rival who denied him the same courtesy four…

Republicans complete power takeover with US House majority

Agence France Presse 11/14/2024

WASHINGTON, United States — The Republicans were declared the majority party in the US House of Representatives Wednesday, completing a clean sweep of Congress and the White House in last week’s elections and handing incoming president Donald…

Harris appears with Biden for first time since election loss

Agence France Presse 11/12/2024

ARLINGTON, United States — President Joe Biden told US veterans Monday that serving as commander-in-chief had been the “greatest honor” of his life as he laid a wreath at a ceremony that marked his first appearance with…

Trump returns: Undocumented immigrants in US ‘terrified’

Agence France Presse 11/08/2024

PHOENIX, United States — Since learning that Donald Trump will return to the White House, undocumented immigrant Angel Palazuelos has struggled to sleep. The 22-year-old, a graduate student in biomedical engineering who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, is…

Liam Payne took cocaine, alcohol, antidepressant before his death

Agence France Presse 11/08/2024

BUENOS Aires, Argentina — One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine prosecutors said Thursday. The prosecutor’s office added…

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