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Police in the US state of Idaho were forced to close down a highway after a semi-truck carrying missiles for the military crashed. According to state police, the truck veered off the main road at a rest stop along I-90 in northern Idaho on Friday night as the driver attempted …

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian and wounded 42 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, the Palestinian health ministry said, after days of rising tensions along the frontier. The Israeli military said over 8,000 Palestinians took part in the demonstration, throwing rocks …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called on Saturday for “decisive” action by Pakistan against a militant group behind a deadly suicide attack in a border area, saying failure to act could jeopardize relations. Rouhani’s remarks were made during a telephone conversation with neighboring Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who said he …

A 116-year-old Japanese woman who loves playing the board game Othello was honored Saturday as the world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records. The global authority on records officially recognized Kane Tanaka in a ceremony at the nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan’s southwest. Her family …

A top official has said Germany will not ban Hezbollah’s political wing following Britain’s decision to do so. Germany is under pressure from the United States to take hard action against the Lebanese group. Niels Annen, deputy minister in the Foreign Ministry, told newsmagazine Der Spiegel that Hezbollah is a …

Seismologists announced Friday the magnitude of Alaska’s powerful Nov. 30 earthquake has been revised to 7.1 from the earlier magnitude 7.0. Alaska Earthquake Center officials say in a news release that the change comes after quake data was reviewed by multiple agencies and academic groups. U.S. Geological Survey spokesman Paul …

The US president visited an Alabama town devastated by a deadly tornado, where he paid his respects to those who died in the natural disaster, as well as… signed Bibles, delivering Twitter a conniption fit. The president met with relatives of the storm victims, as hundreds of people congregated at …

The federal budget deficit is ballooning on President Donald Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care. And even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction. That’s the reality that will greet Trump’s latest …

More than 80 people were injured after a high-speed boat collided with a “marine creature” off the northwest coast of Japan, the country’s Coast Guard said. The boat was carrying 121 passengers during the collision, injuring 87 people traveling on the vessel, according to the Coast Guard from the Niigata …

A cyber-attack is likely the reason for the major blackout that left most of Venezuela in darkness, a Maduro government official said, hinting that the US may be involved in the offensive. As Venezuela is still reeling from a nationwide blackout, Nicolas Maduro’s government says the emergency was the result …

The former boss of a major New York crime gang has died, after serving 33 years of a 139-year prison sentence. Carmine Persico’s lawyer said he died of complications arising from diabetes. He leaves a wife, two children, and 15 grandchildren. The 85-year-old was known as The Snake, a nickname …

Forces from eastern Libya who have swept through the south and taken control of remaining oilfields in recent weeks have now reinforced a base in the center of the country and signaled to the capital Tripoli that it may be next. The United Nations, stunned by the southern advance, is …

At least 14 people have reportedly been killed in Mexico after armed gunmen stormed a nightclub in Salamanca. Local newspapers said another four people had been injured in the attack at the La Playa nightclub. The attackers arrived at the venue shortly after midnight, entered and opened fire on revelers, …

Prime Minister Theresa May has ostensibly delivered an ultimatum to euroskeptic MPs, claiming that if they reject her Brexit deal on Tuesday, then they run the risk of the UK never leaving the European Union. May issued the warning in a key Brexit speech in the ‘Leave-voting’ east coast English …

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi said on Wednesday that his country will stand by Iran’s side as Tehran has been put under unilateral sanctions by the United States. In a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani in Tehran, Halbousi said “Just as Iran had positive stance in …

The United Nations says Burkina Faso is facing a full-blown humanitarian crisis, with almost a million people in need of urgent help. Inter-communal violence and attacks by armed groups have forced tens of thousands from their homes in the past few weeks.

It was the first rebuke of the kingdom at the U.N. Human Rights Council since it was set up in 2006 and came amid growing international concern about Saudi violations of basic freedoms such as freedom of expression. The joint statement, also backed by Canada and Australia but not the …

A grenade blast at a bus station in the Indian city of Jammu has killed one civilian and injured at least 30 people, police have said. Authorities called for calm following the explosion on Thursday morning, which comes weeks after a Pakistan-based militant group killed 40 Indian paramilitary police in …

France’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, the cardinal Philippe Barbarin, has been given a six-month suspended sentence for his role in covering up the sexual abuse of minors. Barbarin was found guilty of failing to report allegations of assaults by a priest in the 1980s and 1990s. He denied the …

More than 150,000 people in the United States died in 2017 due to suicide, alcohol and drugs, an all-time high, according to a new analysis of government data. Nationwide, the number of deaths from alcohol, drugs, and suicide rose 6 percent between 2016 and 2017, according to an analysis of …