The United States is close to reaching a deal with Iran that would end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and see Iran give up its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, regional officials told The Associated…
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly gained Monday and oil prices fell after U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are progressing. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 3.1% in morning trading to 65,321.56. Meanwhile, Australia’s…
LOS ANGELES — With no jackpot winners in the latest Powerball draw, the top prize jumps to an estimated $141 million for Monday, May 25. A ticket with five numbers but missing the Powerball number was sold…
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Angry town residents at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of an Ebola treatment center, the staff there said Saturday. It was the second such attack…
Some 40,000 Southern California residents have been ordered to evacuate as authorities scramble to figure out how to prevent a leaking, hazardous chemical tank from exploding. According to the local fire authority, a storage tank containing 6,000…
Pope Leo XIV on Saturday greeted one by one families who lost loved ones to illegal toxic dumping in an area near Naples.…
BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Residents set fire to an Ebola treatment center at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and…
A round of a-paws for “La Perra,” winner of this year’s Palm Dog award at the Cannes Film Festival. The Chilean movie took the top canine prize Friday, a day before the festival’s official awards ceremony. …
Thailand is drastically cutting the length of visa-free stays for tourists from more than 90 countries in an effort to curb crime involving foreign nationals, officials said on Tuesday. Tourism is vital to the Southeast Asian nation’s…
Spanish police said Tuesday they have arrested the eldest son of Mango clothing empire founder Isak Andic over his father’s death during a hiking trip in December 2024. Jonathan Andic, who was alone with his 71-year-old billionaire…
A drone strike targeted the United Arab Emirates’ Barakah nuclear power plant Sunday, setting an electrical generator ablaze on its perimeter and again straining the shaky ceasefire in the Iran war.…
A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and contentious rescue effort,…
