BBC Online :Lebanon’s two main power plants were switched off on Friday, plunging much of the country into a near-total blackout.The shutdown – caused by the two plants running out of fuel – worsens...
Reuters :Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a bill on Friday requiring public schools to teach Asian-American history, the first such step by a US state amid rising concerns about violence against people of Asian...
Al Jazeera :At least eight people have been killed and nine others wounded after a suicide car bombing targeted a convoy carrying Mogadishu’s police chief, according to Somali officials.Farhan Mohamud, the police commissioner, survived...
AFP :Students and teachers vaccinated against Covid-19 will not need to wear masks in US classrooms when school resumes in the fall, health authorities said Friday. The new guidance follows the recent federal approval...
AP :Iran’s railroad system came under cyberattack on Friday, a semi-official news agency reported, with hackers posting fake messages about train delays or cancellations on display boards at stations across the country.The hackers posted...
CNN :Patients are crammed into every corner of the hospital’s emergency room ward. They lie on beds and gurneys, or sit slumped in wheelchairs. Many suck on oxygen, but nobody talks. Some die while...
BBC Online :A teenage basketball prodigy has become the first African American to win the US Scripps National Spelling Bee.Zaila Avant-garde, a 14-year-old from New Orleans, Louisiana, cruised to victory with the word “murraya”,...
Reuters :Pfizer Inc plans to ask US regulators to authorize a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine within the next month, the drugmaker’s top scientist said on Thursday, based on evidence of greater risk...
Al Jazeera :Israel has said it will begin seizing cryptocurrency accounts used by the Palestinian Hamas group to raise money for its armed wing.Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz ordered security forces on Thursday to...
Al Jazeera :A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro on Thursday night, killing all nine people on board, police said.The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, police said.The...
AFP :The Taliban said Friday it now controls 85% of Afghanistan’s territory as the militants mount an offensive amid a US military withdrawal, though the group’s claims cannot be independently verified.At a press conference...
Reuters :Pope Francis is walking and working and no longer running a fever as he recovers from intestinal surgery, but he is not well enough to return to the Vatican in time for his...
