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Iran on Tuesday launched missiles towards Israel as tensions continue to hang over the Middle East. The country’s news agency, IRNA, confirmed that the military had begun launching ballistic missiles towards Israel. This happened hours after the United States warned of Iran’s planned attack on Israel. The Israeli military has also confirmed the attack. It said sirens had been heard …

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday presented starkly contrasting visions of America’s future in their recent speeches. Trump, speaking in Pennsylvania on Sunday, advocated a police crackdown on crime, and stressed the need for authorities to act “very harshly.” This rhetoric received thunderous applause from the audience as he recounted examples of brazen daylight robbery …

    After their week-long trip turned into a months-long stay on the International Space Station, two Boeing Starliner astronauts are now within earshot of the spacecraft that will eventually bring them home. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, chosen by NASA to bring astronauts Suni Williams and …

The killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was a step toward changing “the balance of power in the region for years to come,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. The Israeli leader sees the opening of an opportunity for a fundamental reconfiguration of power in the Middle East and may assume that Hezbollah is mortally wounded. Total victory, …

    A SpaceX spacecraft has blasted off to rescue two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical problems. This image provided by NASA shows NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov inside the SpaceX capsule, September 28, 2024 [NASA via AP NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov took off on …

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have announced the killing of another senior Hezbollah official in an airstrike in the Lebanese capital Beirut, two days after the killing of the militant group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah. Making the announcement on Sunday, the IDF said Nabil Qaouq, a member of Hezbollah’s central council was killed in an airstrike on Saturday, adding that its …

  Communities in the Southeast are grappling with widespread devastation after Helene made landfall as the strongest hurricane on record, slamming into Florida’s Big Bend region on Thursday and devastating several states, killing at least 61 people, disrupting the electricity to millions of people and trapping families in floodwaters. A personal video shows storm damage in Biltmore Village following Hurricane …

  There is a young woman taking shelter under a tree between two busy streets clutching a stack of documents to her chest. Nazdana and her brother Shams say they had to flee for their lives These pieces of paper are more important to Bibi Nazdana than anything in the world: they are the divorce granted to her after a …

    A couple left with life-threatening injuries after their Uber crashed have been told they could not sue the company because of the terms they agreed to while using the app. A photo of the Uber car in the junkyard after the accident Georgia and John McGinty, of New Jersey, USA, are bound by a stipulation that they cannot …

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has confirmed the death of its secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli airstrike. Nasrallah, who led the group for 32 years, was killed in an airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday. In a statement on Saturday, the group said its leader was killed along with other members in what they described as a “treacherous …