Cambodia and Thailand on Sunday signed an expansion of a ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump helped broker over the summer to end their border conflict. Trump threatened higher tariffs against both countries to push them into agreeing to end the fighting. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds of …
Read More »Iran holds first state funerals for military leaders, nuclear scientists killed in Israeli strikes
Hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel. The caskets of Guard’s chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s …
Read More »Man says he’s the sole survivor of the Air India plane crash
A senior Indian police official told the country’s national news agency ANI on Thursday that one person — a man who was in seat 11A on the doomed Air India flight to London that crashed soon after takeoff in the city of Ahmedabad — survived the catastrophe. Air India later …
Read More »Argentine court declares mistrial in death of soccer legend Diego Maradona
An Argentine court on Thursday declared a mistrial in the case of seven health professionals accused of negligence in the death of soccer legend Diego Maradona, the latest soap-operatic turn in the trial that has transfixed the soccer world. The judges ruled there would be a new trial, without specifying …
Read More »Valentine’s Day: Shakespeare fans can win a stay at Juliet’s home in Verona, Italy, through Airbnb contest
Looking to escape your feuding families and spend Valentine’s Day in the world’s most romantic city? Now, you and your star-crossed lover have the opportunity to stay in Juliet’s historic home in fair Verona, Italy — poison not included. Airbnb is granting one couple access to the site where William …
Read More »Montserrat Caballe, Spanish opera singer, has died at 85
BARCELONA, Spain — Montserrat Caballe, a Spanish opera singer renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, has died. She was 85. Caballe died early Saturday at Hospital San Pau in Barcelona, hospital spokesman Abraham del Moral told The Associated Press. …
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