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North Carolina mounts massive search and rescue operation in wake of Helene
BAT CAVE, North Carolina - Crews on Monday airlifted emergency food and water into remote North Carolina towns that were cut off and...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Mexico's incoming president names new deputy finance minister
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday named Edgar Amador Zamora as her new deputy finance...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon with 'limited' raids on Hezbollah
BEIRUT - Israel said its troops had launched raids inside Lebanon on Tuesday, starting its widely expected ground operations after two...
Oct 1, 20244 min read
North Korea's Kim lauds U-20 women's soccer World Cup victory
SEOUL - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has met the country's women's football team that won the Under-20 World Cup in Colombia last...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
Analysis-Australian mine fight reignites Aboriginal heritage tensions
MELBOURNE - Wiradjuri elder Nyree Reynolds calls her home west of Sydney the valley of the Bilabula, the Indigenous name for its river....
Oct 1, 20244 min read
Over 1.6 million US customers still without power from Hurricane Helene
Over 1.6 million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and other U.S. Southeastern and Midwestern states were still...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
Lebanese troops pull back from border as Israeli ground invasion looms
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT/JERUSALEM - Lebanese troops pulled back from the border with Israel late on Monday as a ground invasion by Israel...
Oct 1, 20244 min read
Putin orders conscription of 133,000 servicemen in Russia's autumn draft
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia's autumn draft that starts Oct. 1 and goes...
Oct 1, 20241 min read
New Swiss central bank chief takes charge in shadow of Credit Suisse trauma
ZURICH - As the Swiss National Bank's new chairman Martin Schlegel takes office this week, the jury is out on the central bank's handling...
Oct 1, 20243 min read
Dozens of Starlink systems deployed for Hurricane Helene by Biden administration
The White House said on Monday dozens of Starlink satellite systems that provide high-speed internet access were in use in North...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
UN peacekeepers patrol southern Lebanon - what is their mandate?
UNITED NATIONS - United Nations peacekeepers were deployed to patrol Lebanon's southern border with Israel in 1978 after Israel invaded...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
Passengers set for world's first continual cruise after repair delay in Belfast
BELFAST - Cruise passengers are to set sail from Belfast on Monday on a three-and-a-half-year world voyage after being stranded in the...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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