The US Secret Service on Tuesday locked down the North Lawn of the White House, prompting an abrupt halt to press activities and heightened security across the area after an unidentified object was reportedly thrown over the fence. USSS shuts down the White House North Lawn aka “Pebble Beach” to all media without explanation #whitehouse…
Israel briefly reopened its airspace on Sunday and is expanding flight operations on Monday, aiming to help tens of thousands of travellers stranded by widespread cancellations across the Middle East after the US attacked Iran. An organisation that monitors flight risks warned on Sunday that US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites could heighten the threat…
India and Pakistan have exchanged fire along their heavily patrolled and contested border in the Kashmir region, escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors just days after a terror attack killed 26 people on the Indian side of the disputed region. Pakistani solders fired at an Indian position first and India responded in kind, according…
Train service between Heathrow Airport and central London was briefly disrupted on Wednesday morning because of a fire next to a track. Trains linking Paddington Station with Heathrow’s Terminal 5 may be canceled or face delays of up to 30 minutes because of the fire, National Rail said in an incident report. It did not…
King Charles III was briefly hospitalized on Thursday after suffering side effects from his cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. The palace said Charles, 76, had since returned to his London residence, Clarence House, and that his public schedule for Friday would be canceled as a precaution. The king announced in February last…
Paddling through choppy waters under cloudy skies, Adrián Simancas and his father were packrafting only a few yards away from each other when something huge lunged, mouth open, from the waves below. A humpback whale appeared to gulp Mr. Simancas down, then rolled over into the waters of Chilean Patagonia. Moments later, Mr. Simancas bobbed…
A Japan Airlines plane that was taxiing on the tarmac of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport apparently clipped the tail of a parked Delta aircraft on Wednesday morning, airport authorities said. Authorities responded to the incident around 10.17 am, the airport said on X. All passengers from Japan Airlines flight 68 and Delta Air Lines flight 1921…
Although they were later recaptured, the prison break shook Israelis and thrilled Palestinians. Israelis saw Mr. Zubeidi’s escape as a chilling security breach with the potential to incite further violence. Many Palestinians called it a temporary victory against Israel’s mass incarceration of Palestinians. An Israeli drone strike killed Mr. Zubeidi’s son, Mohammad, in September. The…
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7 hit off the coast of a sparsely populated area of northern California on Thursday, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later cancelled. No deaths or injuries were reported. There were no reports of major damage, though authorities said they needed time to…