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US launches self-defense strikes on mine-laying boats in southern Iran, CENTCOM says
US military launched “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran, hitting missile sites and Iranian boats, CENTCOM confirmed.
Married tourists found stabbed to death in crocodile-infested river
A retired married couple were viciously stabbed to death and dumped in a crocodile-infested river in South Africa’s Kruger National Park – sparking a frantic manhunt for their killers.
Pope Leo calls for robust regulation of AI, pondering the future of humanity in first encyclical
Pope Leo XIV called Monday for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.
Canadian girl, 15, burns down Kane County Cougars baseball team’s bus: police
A 15-year-old Canadian girl is accused of setting fire to the Illinois Kane County Cougars’ bus in Winnipeg, with police saying the vehicle was destroyed in the blaze and she now faces arson charges.
Iran war agreement being ‘fine-tuned’ as Trump meets with Gulf allies on peace deal after chilling warning to regime
A framework agreement to end the Iran war is being “fine-tuned,” according to a security official from Pakistan, who has been helping media negotiations between Iran and the US.
Husband recounts wife’s tragic scuba dive death 40 years ago at same Maldives spot that killed 5 Italian tourists
Giorgio Bettin said the plan was for the group of six to dive to 65 feet on Jan. 11, 1983 — but to his horror as he waited on the boat, wife Anna Maria Pistolato never resurfaced
NYC Rep Nicole Malliotakis calls on US military to grab Raúl Castro and drag him to justice — just like Maduro
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis called for a military mission to grab Raul Castro over the 1996 shoot-down by Cuban jets of two US aircraft that killed four people, including three Americans.
Dead Maldives divers were just minutes away from reaching surface as tragic new details emerge
The five Italian divers who drowned in the Maldives were not wearing proper scuba equipment for the journey – and were just 15 minutes from the surface when they died.
Bodies of four remaining Italian scuba divers repatriated from the Maldives
Monica Montefalcone, a marine biologist from the University of Genoa; her daughter Giorgia Sommacal; researcher Muriel Oddenino; and recent graduate Federico Gualtieri were repatriated early Saturday.
Exclusive | Ivanka Trump targeted for assassination by IRGC terrorist in twisted plot to avenge president taking out his mentor: sources
Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an alleged terrorist, had pledged to target Ivanka Trump after his mentor, Qasem Soleimani, was assassinated by the US in Iraq six years ago.