Houthi video shows Yemeni rebels planted bombs on tanker 

Associated Press 08/30/2024

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Yemen’s Houthi rebels released footage on Thursday showing their fighters boarded and placed explosives on a Greek-flagged tanker, setting off blasts that put the Red Sea at risk of a major oil…

Powerful Typhoon Shanshan slams into southern Japan

Agence France Presse 08/29/2024

FUKUOKA, Japan —Typhoon Shanshan hit Japan with full force on Thursday, injuring dozens as howling winds smashed windows and blew tiles off houses while torrential rains turned rivers into raging torrents. The typhoon, Japan’s most powerful this year…

Israel says it rescued hostage from underground tunnel in Gaza

Associated Press 08/28/2024

JERUSALEM — Israel said it rescued a hostage from an underground tunnel in Gaza on Tuesday, freeing one of the scores of people abducted during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that ignited the war in Gaza.…

Deadly Russian strikes pound Ukraine for 2nd day

Agence France Presse 08/28/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia fired a wave of attack drones and missiles at Ukraine that killed at least five people, authorities said Tuesday, after a second night of heavy strikes across the war-battered nation. Within hours of…

Telegram: What it is, and why was its CEO arrested in Paris?

Associated Press 08/27/2024

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the messaging app Telegram, was arrested in Paris over the weekend over allegations that his platform is being used for illicit activity such as drug trafficking and the distribution of…

Ukraine issues air raid alerts a day after ‘massive’ Russian attack

Agence France Presse 08/27/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian authorities issued new air raid alerts across the country on Tuesday as Russian bombers took to the skies, a day after Moscow carried out a ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine’s power grid. Russia fired…

Russia’s deadly barrage of missiles, drones hits half of Ukraine

Associated Press 08/27/2024

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia battered much of Ukraine on Monday, firing scores of missiles and drones that killed four people, injured more than a dozen and damaged energy facilities in attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as…

Huthi-struck oil tanker could spill ‘million barrels,’ US warns

Agence France Presse 08/26/2024

WASHINGTON, United States — The United States warned Saturday of a potential environmental disaster in the Red Sea after Huthi rebels struck an oil tanker off the Yemeni coast. The Greek-flagged Sounion was struck on Wednesday off…

Australia gives workers ‘right to disconnect’ from bosses

Agence France Presse 08/26/2024

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia gave millions of workers the legal right to “disconnect” on Monday, allowing them to ignore unreasonable out-of-hours calls, emails and texts from their bosses. People can now refuse to monitor, read, or respond…

Telegram founder: Durov, mysterious and controversial

Agence France Presse 08/26/2024

PARIS, France — Russian-born tech entrepreneur Pavel Durov has founded wildly popular social networks as well as a cryptocurrency, amassed a multi-billion-dollar fortune and locked horns with authorities not just in Russia but around the world. Still…

Telegram chief Durov’s detention in France extended

Agence France Presse 08/26/2024

PARIS, France — French judicial authorities on Sunday extended the detention of the Russian-born founder and chief of Telegram Pavel Durov after his arrest at a Paris airport over alleged offences related to the popular but controversial…

Ukraine: Reuters team member killed in missile strike on hotel

Agence France Presse 08/26/2024

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — A safety advisor working for Reuters was killed in a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine, the global news agency said on Sunday, as Kyiv claimed further advances into Russia’s Kursk region. Ukraine…

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