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Iran keeps up attacks on neighbors after Israel killed 2 of its top officials

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic's leadership as it faces its greatest test in decades, and Iran responded Wednesday with renewed missile and drone attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbors and Israel. Ali ...

Islandwide blackout hits Cuba as it struggles with deepening energy crisis

HAVANA — Officials in Cuba reported an islandwide blackout Monday in the country of some 11 million people as its energy and economic crises deepen and its power grid continues to crumble. The Ministry of Energy and Mines on X noted a "complete disconnection" of the country's electrical ...

US flag raised at embassy in Venezuela for the 1st time since 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The American flag was raised Saturday over the U.S. Embassy in Venezuela for the first time since 2019, a move that highlighted the recent shift in relations between the two countries since then President Nicolás Maduro was captured by American troops in ...

Tehran claims the US attacked it from the UAE

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran urged people Saturday to evacuate the Middle East's busiest port and two others in the United Arab Emirates, openly threatening a neighboring country's non-U.S. assets for the first time as its war with the United States and Israel entered a third ...

15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper hopes to revitalize hometown

ODAKA, Japan — Fifteen years after the 2011 nuclear disaster, color-coded radiation maps hang on the wall of Futabaya Ryokan, the family-run inn Tomoko Kobayashi operates in her near-deserted hometown in northeastern Fukushima. Kobayashi conducted her own radiation surveys before reopening ...