Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks Wednesday in decades, part of a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war, a source close to the negotiations told AFP.
The meeting was taking place at the UN…

Lebanese and Israeli civilian representatives held their first direct talks Wednesday in decades, part of a year-old ceasefire monitoring mechanism in the war, a source close to the negotiations told AFP.
The meeting was taking place at the UN…

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released never-before-seen images of Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island.
The photographs and video appear to show several bedrooms…

Charles Shay, the last surviving Native American World War II D-Day veteran, died at his home in France on Wednesday. An army medic, he patched up US soldiers under heavy fire in the surf on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. He earned a…

The US deploys “its first squadron” of one-way attack drones, developed after reverse-engineering of a much-sought-after and versatile Iranian drone, to the West Asia region.

United States President Donald Trump has announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening regulatory pressure on car makers to control pollution from petrol-powered cars and trucks.
The plan was announced on…

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Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn in Tennessee’s special election on Tuesday.
Although Republicans held the seat, the margin was well below the 22-point cushion Donald Trump achieved there in November 2024.
The BBC’s Anthony…

India rolls out simplified labour codes to modernise outdated laws.
India, home to the world’s second-largest workforce, is implementing its biggest labour changes in decades. The government has compressed dozens of laws into four simplified…

Civilian representatives from Lebanon and Israel joined a session of the US-chaired ceasefire monitoring committee in Naqoura, marking the first direct talks between the two countries in more than four decades.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam…

Republicans have been probing Smith’s investigations into Trump, which resulted in two indictments.
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The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee in the United States…