A handful of oil and gas tankers crossed the Hormuz Strait Saturday during a brief reopening, tracking data showed, but others retreated and two were reportedly attacked as Iran closed the route again. Iran reversed its pledge to reopen the strait to commercial traffic during a
A French soldier was killed and three others wounded in an attack Saturday on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon that appeared to have been carried out by Hezbollah, French President Emmanuel Macron said. "Everything points to Hezbollah being responsible for this attack," he said on X,
Microfiber pollution from large-scale laundry operations is emerging as a significant and largely unseen environmental issue. New research led by the University of Portsmouth is using Cleaner Seas Group's industrial filtration technology—already deployed in commercial settings
TRIPOLI, April 18 - At least 17 bodies believed to be those of migrants have been recovered in recent days from the shore near a coastal town west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli-based medics said on Saturday.
Soon after surprise Coachella performance with Sabrina Carpenter, Material Girl shares "first taste" of new album but not the "lead single"
The country's biggest musician Teddy Afro laments a lack of unity in the country on his new track.
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By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANTALYA, Turkey, April 18 (Reuters) - Discussions are under way on how to manage or mitigate a possible U.S. withdrawal from the "European security architecture", Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday. He gave no details of the discussions, but
Underneath Pragmata's sci-fi action is a sincere game about parenting that rejects gaming's usual tough love wisdom.
Rising sea levels and ecological damage caused by heavy use of flood defence system force city authorities to consider next move The Arsenale, the colossal shipyard that was the engine of the Venetian Republic’s domination for seven centuries, remains the nucleus of the city’s
A joint research team led by Professor Park Kyoung-Duck and Associate Director Suh Yung Doug of the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) has succeeded in realizing a high-efficiency quantum light source that emits bright
PC gaming still has accessbility issues, and Linux gaming doubly so.
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President Trump will sign an executive order centered on medical research from the White House on Saturday morning. The event comes a day after Trump gave remarks in Phoenix focused on his agenda and courting voters ahead of the midterms, garnering the president a standing
The Iranian regime said early Saturday that it is resuming "strict" control over the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.’s naval blockade in the critical trading corridor and as the fragile two-week ceasefire nears its end. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced
April 18 - A United Nations peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded after a UNIFIL patrol came under small-arms fire while clearing explosive ordnance along a road in the southern Lebanese village of Ghandouriyeh, the peacekeeping mission said on Saturday.
OSLO, April 18 - More than a dozen tankers, including three sanctioned vessels, passed through the Strait of Hormuz after a 50-day blockade was lifted on Friday, shipping data showed, before Iran reimposed restrictions on Saturday and fired at some vessels.
PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - A French soldier who was part of international Forces stationed in southern Lebanon was killed, President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday, adding that evidence suggests Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah was responsible for the attack. Three other
BARCELONA, April 18 (Reuters) - The five permanent members of the United Nations' Security Council should agree to change their behaviour after failing to stop the war in Iran, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a progressive leaders' summit in Barcelona on
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President Macron said France had "loved, dreamed and grown up" with the stalwart of French cinema.
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Sexual misconduct—including sexual harassment, stalking, intimate partner violence and sexual assault—is a common problem on U.S. college campuses.
President Trump warned late Friday that the U.S. could strike Iran again if the Middle Eastern nation's leaders do not agree to his terms before the temporary ceasefire ends next week. The president told News Nation, The Hill’s sister network, on board Air Force One that if no
By Tuvan Gumrukcu ANTALYA, Turkey, April 18 (Reuters) - No date has been set for the next round of negotiations between Iran and the United States,Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Saturday, adding that a framework of understanding must be agreed first. The highest-level
The latest developments in the Middle East war: - Gunboats fire on tanker - Iranian gunboats fired on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a British maritime security agency reported. The tanker's captain reported being approached 20 nautical miles northeast of Oman by two
No date has been set for the next round of Iran–US peace talks brokered by Pakistan following the failure of an initial round, Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Saturday. "Until we agree on the framework, we cannot set a date," Saeed Khatibzadeh told journalists on the
The creator of Hannibal and Pushing Daisies makes his feature film directorial debut by combining whimsy and disturbing visuals.
A collaborative research group has developed a fully automated roll-to-roll manufacturing platform capable of producing large-area visible metalenses at a rate of 300 units per second, marking a major breakthrough in translating metasurface technology from the laboratory to
The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of injecting these gray-market molecules rest on little clinical evidence
This country has never been comfortable giving poor people, especially poor Black women, something they didn't “earn” first. Babies included.
Mega Crit co-founder Casey Yano revealed that work on alternate versions of Acts 2 and 3, as well as a new character, have already begun; just don't expect them any time soon
BBC Arabic's correspondent Carine Torbey reports from the border town of Khiam, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon goes into its second day.
Medal of Honor Retro Remake blends bespoke game logic with assets from 2002's Allied Assault.
April 18 (Reuters) - Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned an attack on members of the French contingent of the U.N. peacekeeping force UNIFIL on Saturday and ordered an immediate investigation into the incident, according to a post on X. (Reporting by Enas Alashray;
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The announcement from Iran’s military came a day after the country and President Donald Trump declared the critical Strait of Hormuz open again.
Researchers have found that a group of chemicals known as PFAS can be transferred from mother dolphins to their nursing calves, adding to the evidence that these persistent contaminants can be transferred from mothers to offspring during early development.
