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Hezbollah fires about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel in heaviest barrage in weeks

Hezbollah fired about 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel on Sunday, wounding seven people in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages in months, in response to deadly Israeli strikes i...

Nov 24, 2024

Jannik Sinner leads Italy past the Netherlands for its second consecutive Davis Cup title

MALAGA, Spain (AP) - Jannik Sinner clinched Italy's second consecutive Davis Cup title and capped his breakthrough season at the top of tennis by beating Tallon Griekspoor 7-6 (2), 6-2 on Sunday for a...

Nov 24, 2024

Uruguay's once-dull election has become a dead heat in the presidential runoff

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) - Uruguayans on Sunday began voting for their next president in a tight runoff election between the candidates of the center-right incumbent party and a moderate left-wing coa...

Nov 24, 2024

Israel says rabbi who went missing in the UAE was killed

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel said Sunday that the body of of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found after he was killed in what the government describe...

Nov 24, 2024

Israel says the body of a rabbi who went missing in the UAE has been found

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - Israel says the body of of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who went missing in the United Arab Emirates has been found, citing Emirati authorities. The statement from Prime Minister ...

Nov 24, 2024

Fred Harris, former US senator from Oklahoma and presidential hopeful, dies at 94

CORRALES, N.M. (AP) - Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. Harr...

Nov 23, 2024

Israeli strikes in central Beirut kill at least 20 as diplomats push for a cease-fire

Israeli airstrikes Saturday in central Beirut killed at least 20 people, officials said, as the once-rare attacks on the heart of Lebanon's capital continued without warning while diplomats scrambled ...

Nov 23, 2024

Trump taps Rollins as agriculture chief, completing proposed slate of Cabinet secretaries

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary, the last of his picks to lead executive agenc...

Nov 23, 2024

Trump taps Rollins as agriculture chief, completing proposed slate of Cabinet secretaries

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary. Rollins, who heads the Trump-allies America F...

Nov 23, 2024

Israeli-Moldovan rabbi living in UAE is missing. Israeli officials fear he may have been kidnapped

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - An Israeli-Moldovan rabbi living in the United Arab Emirates has gone missing, with Israeli authorities raising the suspicion Saturday he may have been kidnapped as ...

Nov 23, 2024