Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired two missiles at a ship bound for a port in Iran on Monday, causing minor damage but no injuries to its crew, authorities said. The attack on the Marshall Islands-flagged, Greek-operated bulk carrier Star Iris shows just how widely the Houthis now target ships traveling through the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab …
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A plane carrying four Canadian skydivers came down on a beach Sunday in southern Mexico, killing a man who was on the beach with his wife, authorities said. There was no immediate information on why the plane went down, but it appeared to have made an emergency landing and was largely intact, officials said. However, it fell in a relatively …
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King Charles III attended church Sunday for the first time since his cancer diagnosis. Walking beside Queen Camilla, Charles arrived at St. Mary Magdalene Church, close to Sandringham House in eastern England where he retreated to recuperate following his first treatment for an unspecified form of cancer. The appearance came a day after he expressed thanks for the messages of …
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The San Francisco 49ers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in a heartbreaking overtime Super Bowl thriller Sunday night, 25-22. The back-and-forth defensive battle found the two teams tied at 19 at the end of regulation after late field goals. The 49ers were forced to settle for a field goal in their first OT possession, giving the Chiefs the chance …
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Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case, a decision that unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Katalin Novák, 46, announced in a televised message on Saturday that she would step down from the presidency, an office she …
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London —Britain’s King Charles has issued his first statement since the public announcement of his cancer diagnosis. In a statement issued by the British royal family Saturday, King Charles said he would like “to express my most heartfelt thanks for the many messages of support and good wishes I have received in recent days.” “As all those who have been …
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Israeli airstrikes killed at least 44 Palestinians — including more than a dozen children — in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on Saturday, hours after Israel’s prime minister said he had asked the military to plan for the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people there ahead of a ground invasion. Benjamin Netanyahu did not provide details or a …
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A day after President Biden called Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip “over the top,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it clear that the war was likely to escalate. The Israeli leader said Friday that he’d ordered his forces to prepare a plan to evacuate the population of Rafah ahead of an expected Israeli invasion of the southern …
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London —Queen Camilla said Thursday evening that King Charles III was “doing extremely well under the circumstances,” several days after Buckingham Palace revealed that the monarch had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer and was undergoing treatment. Speaking at a concert celebrating the work of local charities in England’s Salisbury Cathedral, Camilla said Charles was “very touched by …
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More than 1.3 million tons of cocaine was seized from boats during three separate operations in the Caribbean Sea off Colombia, the country’s Navy said Thursday, and the crew members of one of the suspicious vessels abandoned ship when they saw authorities closing in. In total, the Colombian Navy and air force seized 1,342 kilograms of cocaine that would be …
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