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Boeing guilty plea deal filed

The plea deal must be approved by a federal court judge.

ADNOC Gas awards $550m contracts

The company aims to expand UAE gas infrastructure, increase customer reach

Airbus nets satellite deal

The $2.5bn contract was awarded by the German army.

Tesla Q2 auto deliveries surge

Deliveries still 4.7 percent down from a year ago.

Apple holds talks with rival Meta

The company to integrate Meta's generative AI into its products.

Bangladesh arrest total passes 2,500

What began as demonstrations against politicized admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed into some of the country's worst unrest.

The Biden bombshell: a plot twist that roils Trump too

With the Democrat no longer in the race, the Trump operation finds itself pushed into a strategic pivot, forced now...
  • For months Trump and his allies have been playing on concerns that the 81-year-old Biden may no longer be fit for office
  • He was frequently a target of Republican mockery and scorn at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

Israel strikes key Yemen port after Tel Aviv attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned "anyone who harms us will pay a very heavy price", after Friday's drone attack in...
  • The strikes on the vital port, which triggered a raging fire and plumes of black smoke, are the first claimed by Israel in the Arabian peninsula's poorest country
  • Gallant said the Hodeida strikes were also a warning to other Iran-backed armed groups around the Middle East that have claimed attacks on Israel during the Gaza war

Defiant Biden vows to ‘win’ despite growing revolt

Around 25 House Democrats and three senators have now called on Biden to drop out since a disastrous debate performance...
  • Biden vowed to return to the campaign trail next week, and took aim at Donald Trump's "dark" speech accepting his nomination at the Republican National Convention on Thursday
  • Amid party defections, media speculation is mounting that Biden is using his weekend in Delaware to consult family members and mull over the path ahead

Yemen Houthis claim responsibility for drone attack on Tel Aviv

A statement from the rebels, who have carried out dozens of attacks against Red Sea shipping in what they say...
  • Israeli emergency services say the explosion left one person dead and up to 10 lightly injured
  • The US intercepted a ballistic missile and three drones launched by the Houthis at Israel on Friday night

Hezbollah vows to hit new Israeli targets if civilians killed

Since October, the cross-border violence has killed 511 people in Lebanon.
  • Hezbollah warned Israel of the consequences of any invasion of Lebanon
  • The Israeli military said that "operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon were approved and validated"

Israel bombs Gaza after US criticizes high civilian toll

The health ministry said a strike on a fuel station in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza killed 17 people, and the...
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken earlier conveyed Washington's "serious concern" to two senior Israeli officials regarding deadly Israeli strikes in Gaza, his spokesman said
  • Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh said Sunday the group was pulling out of indirect talks for a deal in protest at Israeli "massacres."

Hamas and Palestinian rivals Fatah to meet in Beijing: officials

Several reconciliation bids have failed, but calls have grown since the Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel set off the...
  • The Hamas delegation is to be headed by its Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh, while the Fatah representation will be led by deputy head Mahmud Alul, Fatah sources said
  • The two groups have been bitter rivals since Hamas fighters ejected Fatah from the Gaza Strip after deadly clashes that followed Hamas's resounding victory in a 2006 election

Hamas says pulling out of Gaza truce talks, as Israel keeps up strikes

A Hamas official said Sunday that the Palestinian group was withdrawing from Gaza truce talks, as Israeli bombardments hit a...
  • On Sunday, Israeli forces struck a UN-run school in the central Nuseirat refugee camp
  • Four previous strikes on schools turned shelters since July 6 killed a total of at least 49 people

Biden tells Americans to ‘cool it down’ after Trump assassination bid

As the country reeled from images of a bloodied Trump waving his fist after the gunman opened fire at a...
  • Biden also mentioned the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters as proof that the situation is getting out of hand
  • Just before Biden's speech, Trump landed in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, during which he will formally be anointed the party's nominee

Donald Trump wounded at rally shooting, Biden leads condemnation

US President Joe Biden led the condemnation after his election rival Donald Trump was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt...
  • Political leaders on both sides of the aisle slammed the attack minutes after the Republican candidate was rushed off stage by the Secret Service with blood running down his face
  • "The idea that there's political violence, or violence in America like this, is just unheard of. It's just not appropriate. Everybody, everybody must condemn it," Biden said

Gaza mediators, Israel spy chief to meet in Rome: Egypt media

"A four-way meeting between Egyptian officials and their American and Qatari counterparts, in the presence of Israel's intelligence chief, will...

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Biden, Kadhemi meeting to focus on US troop withdrawal from Iraq

The White House talks between the two allies come just a week after a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic...

Bomb-laden drones hit Erbil airport in northern Iraq

The attack took place at around 1930 GMT but caused no injuries or major damage Since the start of the...

Defiant Biden vows to ‘win’ despite growing revolt

Around 25 House Democrats and three senators have now called on Biden to drop out since a disastrous debate performance...

Yemen Houthis claim responsibility for drone attack on Tel Aviv

A statement from the rebels, who have carried out dozens of attacks against Red Sea shipping in what they say...

Hezbollah vows to hit new Israeli targets if civilians killed

Since October, the cross-border violence has killed 511 people in Lebanon.

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Hamas and Palestinian rivals Fatah to meet in Beijing: officials

Several reconciliation bids have failed, but calls have grown since the Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel set off the...
  • The Hamas delegation is to be headed by its Qatar-based political chief Ismail Haniyeh, while the Fatah representation will be led by deputy head Mahmud Alul, Fatah sources said
  • The two groups have been bitter rivals since Hamas fighters ejected Fatah from the Gaza Strip after deadly clashes that followed Hamas's resounding victory in a 2006 election

Hamas says pulling out of Gaza truce talks, as Israel keeps up strikes

A Hamas official said Sunday that the Palestinian group was withdrawing from Gaza truce talks, as Israeli bombardments hit a...
  • On Sunday, Israeli forces struck a UN-run school in the central Nuseirat refugee camp
  • Four previous strikes on schools turned shelters since July 6 killed a total of at least 49 people

Biden tells Americans to ‘cool it down’ after Trump assassination bid

As the country reeled from images of a bloodied Trump waving his fist after the gunman opened fire at a...
  • Biden also mentioned the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters as proof that the situation is getting out of hand
  • Just before Biden's speech, Trump landed in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention, during which he will formally be anointed the party's nominee