1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (598+ words) Fighting between the Houthi militia and Yemen’s internationally recognized government escalated further this week as the Iran-backed group seized territory and exchanged missile and drone attacks with Saudi Arabia. On Thursday, the Houthis seized the port city of Mokha and…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (377+ words) SANTIAGO, Chile – A fire at a nursing home in Chile that had previously violated regulations has killed 16 elderly residents and left others hospitalized, authorities said Saturday. The blaze began on Friday night at the single-story care home in the Araucania…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (214+ words) President Donald Trump has pledged to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. The dubious promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1025+ words) NEW YORK — Karen Matthews was getting her 3-year-old daughter ready for preschool in her Manhattan apartment on Sept. 11, 2001, when she heard a loud boom, unlike anything she’d ever heard before. Holding her child, she went outside. Around her, people stared…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (837+ words) Anthropic said Thursday it has blocked efforts by bad actors to use its artificial intelligence models for malicious activity such as cyberattacks, surveillance, and research that could have led to biological weapons. As AI models grow more powerful, elaborate cyberattacks…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (681+ words) PARIS — The EU’s climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer. In response to the assessment by the Copernicus Climate…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (969+ words) The 370-year-old structure has all the attributes of a classically designed Japanese temple, from the curved roof to the timber-frame walls, spacious tatami-mat prayer hall and elaborately decorated altar. Set in manicured gardens on the Chita Peninsula in central Japan,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (930+ words) “This day has changed the world,” German President Johannes Rau said. He had watched in shock as the burning Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed in New York. Nearly 3,000 people were killed on September 11, 2001, when Islamist terrorists hijacked…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (302+ words) MANILA, Philippines — The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called on a “certain individual” to stop what they described as “provocations” and “threatrics” following Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro’s public denunciation of China’s claims over the 2016 arbitral ruling at a defense forum…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (260+ words) MANILA, Philippines — Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. on Tuesday described China’s latest assertion, written in a letter regarding the South China Sea arbitration, as “actual coercion, bullying and aggression”. His denunciation came after a man handed him, on stage,…...