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LONDON — The US and UK have hinted they could take military action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, after they repelled the largest attack yet on Red Sea shipping. Carrier-based jets and warships shot down 21 drones and missiles launched by the Iran-backed group on Tuesday night. The allies warned of …

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The US space agency NASA announced that astronauts will have to wait until next year before flying to the moon, and another year before landing on it, in light of the latest round of flight delays.NASA had planned to send four astronauts around the moon late this year, but postponed …

WASHINGTON — A fifth and final batch of court documents relating to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been released. Among the 1,400 pages of records are depositions with Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. This last trove shows Epstein refused hundreds of times to answer lawyers’ questions, including about …

War over Taiwan would have a cost in blood and treasure so vast that even those unhappiest with the status quo have reason not to risk it. Bloomberg Economics estimate the price tag at around $10 trillion, equal to about 10% of global GDP — dwarfing the blow from the …

At least two people died when a boat carrying migrants capsized Wednesday off the Greek island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, port police said, while up to 16 people were missing.An inflatable dinghy from the nearby Turkish coast ran aground on the rocky shores of Agios Georgios, east of …

TEL AVIV — Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The robust engagement with the International Court of Justice is unusual for Israel, which normally considers international tribunals unfair and biased. …

Israeli military bulldozers destroy streets in Jenin; Nablus old city stormed  Al Jazeera English Video Shows Israeli Military Vehicle Driving Over Palestinian Man Shot Dead in West Bank  Democracy Now! Israel-Gaza War: Israeli forces conduct raid in Jenin as West Bank violence surges | WION News  WION ‘Freedom is paid for in blood’: …

South Korea’s on-year employment grew at a slower pace in 2023, but the employment rate reached a record high, data showed Wednesday.The number of employed people rose 327,000 in 2023 from a year earlier, or 1.2 percent, to come to 28.41 million, South Korea’s (Yonhap) news agency reported citing the …

WASHINGTON — The boss of Boeing has admitted the planemaker was at fault after one of its aircraft suffered a door blow-out shortly after take-off in the US. No one was injured when the unused cabin door broke away from the Alaska Airlines flight from Portland, Oregon on Friday. The …