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Israel says it killed Hezbollah commander in first strike on Beirut since ceasefire

Israel said on Thursday it had killed a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in an airstrike on Beirut a day earlier, the first Israeli attack on the Lebanese capital since a ceasefire agreed last month.The Israeli military said the commander was killed when Israel struck the southern suburbs of Beirut. There was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz announced the attack in a joint statement on Wednesday.The strike has raised pressure on the ceasefire that had halted Israeli attacks on Beirut, even as Israeli forc

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Tesla's China-made EV sales rise 36% in April, year-on-year

Tesla's China-made electric vehicle sales rose for the sixth straight month of year-on-year increases, as it navigates intensifying competition in two of its largest markets. Deliveries of Model 3 and Model Y produced at its Shanghai factory, including exports to Europe and other markets, totalled 79,478 units, down 7.2% from March, data from the China Passenger Car Association showed on Thursday. (Reporting by Qiaoyi Li and Ju-min Park, Editing by Louise Heavens)

Paraguay president lauds friendship with Taiwan, China tells him to sever ties

Emirates airline posts record net profit despite war impact

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Iran reviewing US proposal as Trump pressures Tehran for agreement on deal to end war

Iran said it was reviewing the latest American proposals on ending the war, as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the country with a new wave of bombing unless a deal is reached that includes reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz to international shipping. Hope that the two-month conflict could soon end buoyed international markets on Thursday, even as the U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker attempting to breach an American blockade of Iran’s ports hours earlier. The developments followed days of mixed messaging from the Trump administration over its strategy to

Russia says Ukraine launched a major drone attack after Moscow shunned ceasefire offer

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Oil prices rise as investors weigh Middle East peace prospects

Oil prices rose over $1 on Thursday, rebounding from the previous day's sharp losses, as investors weighed the prospects of a Middle East peace deal succeeding. Brent crude futures were up 54 cents, or 0.5%, at $101.81 a barrel at 0615 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate gained 45 cents, or 0.5%, to $95.53 a barrel. Both benchmarks slumped more than 7% on Wednesday, hitting two-week lows on optimism over a possible end to the Middle East war. They pared losses, however, after U.S. President Donald Trump said it was "too soon" for face-to-face talks with Tehran and a senior Iranian lawmaker sa

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Judge won’t order DOJ to return seized 2020 ballots to Fulton County

A federal judge said Wednesday he would not order the Justice Department to return ballots from the 2020 presidential election it seized from Fulton County, Georgia, rejecting a request by county officials.Judge JP Boulee said the county had not met the high legal bar that would allow him to intervene, even as he acknowledged that “events leading up to this case are, in a variety of ways, unprecedented.”The seizure of the ballots from the Atlanta-area county, which was a chief target of President Donald Trump’s false claims that his 2020 electoral defeat was rigged, sent shockwaves among

Trump administration can keep 2020 election ballots seized from Georgia, judge rules

FBI searches business, other locations associated with Democratic Virginia state senator

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FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, AP sources say

The FBI searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop Wednesday, bringing into public view what two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press was a corruption investigation. One of the people said the investigation into Democratic Sen. L. Louise Lucas was opened during Democratic former President Joe Biden’s administration. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing criminal investigation. While the probe apparently has spanned administrations of different political parties, Democra

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Who is Pete Hegseth calling ‘Pharisees’?

At an April news briefing on the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth digressed from taking a dig at Iranian leadership to take a dig at American news media.The “relentlessly negative coverage” of the war, Hegseth said, evoked a sermon he’d heard in church about the “Pharisees.” Describing a passage from the book of Mark in the New Testament, he relayed a story about Jesus healing a man on the Sabbath. The “Pharisees,” in the biblical rendition, seemed more concerned that the act of healing had violated the customary day of rest.“You see, the Pharisees, the so-called and se

Veteran accused of shooting wife found dead of apparent self-inflicted gunshot after dayslong manhunt, officials say

Police announce arrest in Oklahoma party shooting that left 1 dead, 22 injured

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‘I am trying to stay alive.’ Jobs at mom-and-pop shops are disappearing

Shirley Modlin started her manufacturing business 20 years ago in her garage with her husband. Now, she fears the company won’t survive.Modlin’s tiny company based in Powhatan, Virginia, faces major delays on components and price hikes of up to 400% that she blames on tariffs. She is struggling to pass those costs on to clients and has fallen 90 days behind on payments to vendors.“Everything is delayed or high-priced. The customer is screaming. It’s killing us,” Modlin, owner of 3D Design and Manufacturing, told CNN in a phone interview.Mom-and-pop shops are under increasing pressure

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Rubio arrives for audience with Pope Leo XIV to ease tensions after Trump's criticism over Iran

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened a fence-mending visit to the Vatican on Thursday after President Donald Trump’s broadsides against Pope Leo XIV and the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran angered the Holy See and sparked ongoing sparring between the two American leaders. Rubio, a practicing Catholic, had an audience scheduled with Leo, which was complicated at the last minute by Trump’s latest criticism of the Chicago-born pope. Leo has pushed back, calling out Trump’s misrepresentations of his views on Iran and nuclear weapons and insisting that he is merely preaching the

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Project Freedom was a bust. Where does that leave the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz?

For tens of thousands of seafarers on the 1,600 ships stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, “Project Freedom” was anything but.President Donald Trump’s operation to “guide” ships through the strait lasted just 48 hours. Only two ships were guided through.Now, shipping companies and stranded seafarers are again left without a safe way out, unwilling to bear the risk of transit. Despite the ceasefire, missiles continue to fly over the 21-mile waterway.“Nothing short of a true peace accord that is demonstrated and proven will gain the confidence of the commercial shipping community,” said

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Huge 2025 tsunami in Alaska fjord was second-highest on record

Tracy Arm Fjord, in southeastern Alaska within the Tongass National Forest, presents a majestic vista, with a narrow sea inlet surrounded by towering granite cliffs, waterfalls and glaciers. One morning last year it also was the site of a powerful landslide that triggered a huge localized tsunami.Researchers have now determined that the tsunami on August 10, 2025, was the second-highest ever recorded, with a wave reaching up to 1,578 feet (481 meters) tall - higher than New York City's Empire State Building. The tsunami surged through the fjord, violently stripping vegetation from the steep r

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Chief Justice Roberts defends Supreme Court against charges of partisan rulings

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FBI searches Virginia Senate leader's office as part of corruption probe, AP sources say

The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop

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US fires on Iranian oil tanker as Trump pressures Tehran for deal to end war

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Airlines had the perfect conditions for jacking up fares. Then Spirit collapsed

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Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ slogan is ‘just as hateful’ as racial slurs, New York real estate titan says

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EU negotiator says 'still some way to go' on US trade deal under threat of higher auto tariffs

European lawmakers and governments are making good progress in negotiations to finalise a deal scrapping duties on U.S. imports but "there is still some way to go", the

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