Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to criminal sexual act
NEW YORK – Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty to a criminal sexual act on Wednesday, nearly five months after the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul’s sex crimes conviction in New York…
Peru declares state of emergency in regions scorched by forest fires
LIMA – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the nation’s Andean…
Israeli PM Netanyahu says we will return residents of the north to their homes
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Wednesday to return tens of thousands of residents evacuated from northern border areas to their homes, amid mounting tensions with the…
UN Security Council to meet Friday over Lebanon pager blasts
UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Security Council will meet on Friday over the pager blasts in Lebanon targeting militant group Hezbollah, said Slovenia’s U.N. Ambassador Samuel Zbogar, president of…
Saudi Arabia will not recognise Israel without Palestinian state, says Crown Prince
DUBAI – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday said the kingdom would not recognise Israel without a Palestinian state and strongly condemned the “crimes of the Israeli occupation”…
Communications devices used by Hezbollah detonate across Lebanon, say witnesses
This came after thousands of pagers used by the group detonated across the country on Sept 17. Read More
One killed in shooting outside Moscow office of Russia’s Wildberries
MOSCOW – One person was killed and three others wounded in a shooting at the Moscow office of Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries, state officials said on Wednesday, an apparent…
German woman killed in shark attack off Canary Islands
MADRID – A German woman died after she was attacked by a shark while swimming beside her catamaran in high seas between Spain’s Canary Islands and West Africa, a police…
Sweden postpones Turkey security meeting due to airplane trouble
STOCKHOLM – An airplane carrying Sweden’s foreign minister and justice minister has returned to Stockholm after suffering a technical problem while on the way to Turkey, and a key security…
India’s cabinet accepts recommendation to hold simultaneous national, state elections
NEW DELHI – India’s cabinet has accepted a recommendation to hold simultaneous elections to state assemblies and the national parliament, the information minister said on Wednesday, a move pushed by…