Video filmed in Kiryat Shmona Tuesday night showed Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system destroying several projectiles launched from Lebanon toward Israel. The Israeli military said “numerous launches” were seen fired late Tuesday from Lebanon toward northern Israel. Video filmed in Kiryat Shmona Tuesday night showed Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system destroying several projectiles
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Swedish and Finnish marines engaged in amphibious operations from a US Navy warship in the Norwegian Arctic, as part of preparation for the Nordic Response 2024 exercise, part of NATO’s large-scale exercise Steadfast Defender 2024. Swedish and Finnish marines engaged in amphibious operations from a US Navy warship in the Norwegian Arctic, as part of
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to research published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The chipped stones, deliberately fashioned from volcanic rock, were excavated from a quarry in Korolevo in the 1970s. Archaeologists used new methods to date
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday, seeking a coalition that could lead the country out of the gang violence that has closed the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home.Haiti remained largely paralyzed, with schools and businesses still closed amid heavy gunfire blamed on the
IDLIB, Syria (AP) — Islamic State militants attacked villagers collecting truffles in eastern Syria on Wednesday, killing at least 18 people and leaving dozens injured and missing, opposition activists and pro-government media said. The attack against the truffle hunters was one of the deadliest strikes by the Islamic State group in the area in more
WASHINGTON (AP) — A woman ascends toward the heights of American politics, with the nation’s top elected office — the presidency — looming far out of reach. A man at the bottom predicts, unhelpfully: “You’ll never make it, sister!”Asked the Chicago Daily Tribune, in a 1922 editorial cartoon published two years after women won the
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced plans Wednesday to send the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons, following a series of high-profile crimes on city trains. Hochul, a Democrat, said she will deploy 750 members of the National Guard to the subways to assist
WASHINGTON (AP) — Texan Dixie Warden is quick to say she’s “not a numbers girl.” But as the first user of the government’s new free electronic tax return filing system, Warden reports she completed her taxes this year in about an hour using the program. “I don’t want to call myself a dummy, but this
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Hondurans call it the “Trial of the Century,” but it’s occurring in a New York courtroom some 3,500 miles (5,630 kilometers) away.Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández has been on trial since February in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, accused of taking bribes to protect drug traffickers, even as he portrayed
