‘Ketamine Queen’ Gets 15 Years in Matthew Perry Death Case That Shook Hollywood
LOS ANGELES – A drug dealer dubbed the “Ketamine Queen” was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison in connection with the fatal overdose of “Friends” star Matthew Perry, including her role in supplying the dose of the powerful…
Gaza Strike Kills Al Jazeera Journalist and 3 Others, Medics Report
CAIRO – Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed four people on Wednesday, including an Al Jazeera journalist, local health authorities said and the Qatari television network reported. The strike that killed Al Jazeera’s Muhammad Washah targeted a vehicle he…
Trump Deploys Top Envoys to Pakistan for Iran Talks as Ceasefire Faces Test
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is dispatching his Iran negotiating team, led by Vice President JD Vance, to Pakistan, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, adding that the first round of talks would take place on…
Trump Claims “100% Victory” After Iran Ceasefire—But Big Questions Remain
U.S. President Donald Trump told AFP on Tuesday that the United States had won a “total and complete victory” after agreeing to a two-week ceasefire deal with Iran. “Total and complete victory. 100 percent. No question about it,” Trump told…
Israel Agrees to Iran Strike Pause—But Warns Lebanon Fighting Will Go On
Israel supports U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to suspend strikes against Iran for two weeks, but said the ceasefire does not include Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday. The office said Israel backed the U.S. move provided…
Israel Eyes Iran Energy Targets as It Waits for US Approval to Strike
Israel is preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities but is awaiting a green light from the United States, a senior Israeli defense official said on Saturday, adding that any such attacks would likely come within the next week. The comments…
AI Surge May Trigger Storage Chip Shortage
SAN JOSE, California – The same booming AI demand that has caused the chairman of South Korea’s SK Group to predict shortages of high-bandwidth memory chips could also cause tight supplies for storage drives, an executive from the South Korean…
Fuel Crisis Leaves Cuba Struggling for Basics
HAVANA – Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination of fuel shortages and power grid instability left thousands of taps dry. State water utility Aguas de La Habana confirmed…
US Airports Could Close Over Funding Dispute
WASHINGTON- A senior Trump administration official said on Tuesday that if a government funding standoff continues, it may force the shutdown of some smaller airports in the coming weeks owing to a shortage of security personnel. The partial government shutdown,…
Trump: U.S. Doesn’t Need NATO Help in Iran War
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the U.S. had been informed by most of its NATO allies that they did not want to get involved with the country’s military operation in Iran. “Because of the fact that we have…
Humanitarian Alert: 36,000 Palestinians Displaced
BERLIN – More than 36,000 Palestinians in the West Bank were forcibly displaced over a year by Israeli settlement expansion and associated violence, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday. The United Nations said in a report covering 12…
Security Shift: Chad Takes Over Haiti Mission
SANTO DOMINGO – The U.N.-backed Gang Suppression Force – an international mobilization intended to help Haiti’s police fight powerful armed gangs in the Caribbean country – should fully deploy by October this year, Roberto Alvarez, foreign minister of the neighboring…
Resignation Rocks Washington Over Iran War Dispute
WASHINGTON – A top security official in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration resigned over the war in Iran on Tuesday, saying the country had posed no imminent threat to the United States. Joe Kent, who headed the National Counterterrorism Center,…
Wall Street Futures Fall as Oil Fuels Inflation Fears
U.S. stock index futures slipped on Tuesday as the Middle East conflict pinned oil prices near $100 a barrel, fueling inflation concerns that will be a major point of discussion when the Federal Reserve kicks off its two-day meeting later…
Amazon Takes on Walmart With 1-Hour Shipping
NEW YORK – Amazon is ramping up its speedy delivery service by offering 1-hour and 3-hour shipping in markets across the U.S., including Los Angeles and Chicago, in its latest efforts to stave off e-commerce competition from its biggest rival…
Iran’s New Leader Rejects US De-Escalation Proposals
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has rejected proposals for reducing tensions or for a ceasefire with the United States that were conveyed to Tehran by two intermediary countries, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Khamenei’s stance for revenge…
Taliban Claims 400 Killed in Pakistan Strike on Kabul Hospital
KABUL – At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug users rehabilitation hospital in the Afghanistan capital Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday. Pakistan rejected…
White House Eyes New Fertilizer Sources Amid Shortages
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is seeking other sources of fertilizer amid the ongoing Iran war’s shipping constraints, including from Venezuela and possibly Morocco, White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Tuesday. “We’ve … established licenses for Venezuela to…
Israeli strike kills three people in Gaza as Iran war strains truce
CAIRO – An Israeli airstrike killed at least three people including a child in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health authorities said, the latest violence jeopardising the ceasefire which has been under strain during the Israeli-U.S. war against Iran….
Big Money Deal Brewing in U.S. Wind Farm Case
U.S. officials are drafting agreements to pay nearly $1 billion to oil major TotalEnergies as compensation for the cancellation of leases for wind farms in federal waters off New York State and North Carolina, the New York Times reported on…