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Police in Spain arrested 12 people and were looking for 12 more after a group of passengers fled a plane onto the runway at Palma de Mallorca airport on Friday night, causing the closure of the airport for several hours. The Air Arabia Maroc flight from Casablanca to Istanbul made …

A crush of rap music fans pushing toward the stage during Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival in Houston killed at least eight people and injured many more as panic rippled through the packed crowd, officials said on Saturday. The disaster unfolded at NRG Park at around 9 p.m. on Friday during …

After a daylong standoff, Democrats set aside divisions between progressives and centrists to pass a $1 trillion package of highway, broadband, and other infrastructure improvements, sending it on to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The 228-to-206 vote late on Friday is a substantial triumph for Biden’s Democrats, who …

Former British Prime Minister John Major on Saturday attacked fellow Conservative Boris Johnson’s handling of a corruption row, calling the conduct “shameful” and saying this could undermine his popularity. Johnson was forced to make an embarrassing U-turn after he abandoned plans pushed through parliament to protect a lawmaker found to …

Russia on Saturday said it does not expect progress in talks in the coming weeks with the US on issues including visas and the size and functioning of their embassies, Russian news agencies reported. With ties already at post-Cold War lows, Moscow and Washington are in a dispute over the …

At least 99 people have been killed after an oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, with the country’s president mourning the “horrendous loss of life”. More than 100 victims were taken to hospitals and clinics across the city, deputy health minister Amara Jambai said. A staff member at Connaught …

Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune said on Saturday he would not make the “first move” towards easing tensions with former colonial power France after critical comments from Paris about his country. The diplomatic spat has been fueled by a visa row and media reports that President Emmanuel Macron told descendants of …

The Pakistani Taliban have demanded that the government of Pakistan release a number of prisoners as a condition for talks aimed at laying the ground for full ceasefire negotiations, multiple sources in the group said. The Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan or TTP and separate from the …

A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany has injured several people, police confirmed Saturday morning. Local police told The Associated Press that they received a call about the attack around 9 a.m. local time on Saturday. The train in question, one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, was traveling …

The United States said Saturday it has ordered the departure of its non-essential diplomats from Ethiopia, as the war between Tigray rebels and government forces intensifies. “The Department of State ordered the departure of non-emergency US government employees and their family members from Ethiopia” on Friday, the State Department said …

The Saudi-led coalition waging war against Yemen has banned a new ship carrying fuel from docking at Yemen’s Red Sea Port of Hudaydah. Essam al-Mutawakel, a Spokesman for the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), said in a tweet on Wednesday that the Saudi-led coalition seized a ship named SEA LION carrying …

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has stressed that the issue of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood can’t be compromised, warning Israel that it will pay the price for its “crimes” in the occupied city of al-Quds. Haron Nasser al-Din, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, made the remarks in a …

UN experts have condemned Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Al-Quds as “the engine of the occupation,” saying the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal construction activities “trample”on human rights law. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Michael Lynk and Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN Special Rapporteurs on the Situation of Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory …

A senior Russian diplomat says the recent decision made collectively by Iran and other parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement to resume talks later this month will pave the way for the lifting of the sanctions that the US imposed on Iran after leaving the deal and Tehran’s return to …

A Pentagon investigation claims that the US drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Afghanistan’s capital city of Kabul in late August did not violate any laws, including the laws of war, and was not caused by misconduct or negligence. Lieutenant General Sami Said, the Inspector General …

A European Parliament delegation that is on an official visit to Chinese Taipei has called for more “high-level concrete steps” to strengthen relations between the European Union and the Chinese territory, defying Beijing’s warnings against direct ties with the self-ruled island. French member of the European Parliament Raphael Glucksmann, who is …

US Democratic New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has narrowly won re-election after voting ended in an unexpected nail-biter for the incumbent. Murphy became the first Democratic governor in four decades to win re-election in the densely populated northeastern coastal US state, even though registered Democratic voters outnumber Republicans by more …

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they thwarted an attempt by the United States to detain a tanker carrying the Islamic Republic’s oil in the Sea of Oman. The American officials said that in reality Iranian forces had seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker last month and U.S. naval forces were …

The United States has put an Israeli spyware company on its blacklist following confirmation that the firm’s phone-hacking tools, like Pegasus, had been used by foreign governments to “maliciously target” journalists and officials. The US Commerce Department said in a statement on Wednesday that the Joe Biden administration had added …

Sears is also first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. Republican Winsome Sears will become the first female lieutenant governor and the first woman of color to hold statewide office in Virginia. Sears defeated Democrat Hala Ayala in Tuesday’s election. Sears rocketed out of political obscurity to …