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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea’s military said, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from an area near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, but didn’t immediately say how far they flew. […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Fatima Nazha slept on the street for two days after she and her family fled their home in Beirut’s southern suburbs following an Israeli mass evacuation order. All of the schools the government turned into shelters were full, and the family couldn’t afford a hotel or an apartment, so she and her husband eventually moved into a tent in the country’s biggest stadium while their kids and […]

LONDON (AP) — Chef Gordon Ramsay yells at people. His mentor was known for throwing pans and plates. That chef, London’s Marco Pierre White, titled his own memoir “The Devil in the Kitchen” — in part for the punishments he meted out to his chefs. “If you don’t fear the boss, you’ll take shortcuts, you’ll turn up late,” White wrote, saying his kitchen staff at Harveys accepted that. “They were […]

KYIV, March 14 (Reuters) – At least four people were killed and 15 wounded in an overnight Russian air attack outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, officials said on Saturday. The attack targeted residential buildings, educational institutions, enterprises and critical infrastructure facilities in four districts of the Kyiv region, said Mykola Kalashnyk, head of the regional military administration. Damage reports were still coming in and the number of victims rising, he […]

AMSTERDAM, March 14 (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city’s mayor described as “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community”. The explosion at the school in an upscale residential neighbourhood on the south side of Amsterdam only caused limited damage, Mayor Femke Halsema said in a press release, as police and firefighters arrived at the scene quickly. No injuries were […]

By Michel Rose PARIS, March 12 (Reuters) – Marion Soulet rides to Paris’ City Hall along a once car-choked road that is now a cycleway and a symbol of the French capital’s urban green transformation that faces a test in a mayoral election on Sunday. Soulet welcomes the construction of about 1,000 km (620 miles) of cycle lanes by leftist Mayor Anne Hidalgo over the last decade, which she says […]

President Donald Trump said U.S. forces on Friday “obliterated” targets on Iran’s Kharg Island, which is home to the primary terminal that handles the country’s oil exports. The speaker of the Iranian Parliament had warned that such strikes would provoke a new level of retaliation. Meanwhile, an American official said 2,500 more Marines and an amphibious assault ship are being sent to the Middle East nearly two weeks into the […]

BANGKOK, March 14 (Reuters) – Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn is to open parliament on Saturday, as last month’s general election result faces court scrutiny over barcodes on the ballots that may have violated the law. The barcodes might undermine the secrecy of the ballot, said the country’s Office of the Ombudsman, which petitioned the Constitutional Court to consider the case. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s Bhumjaithai Party won a clear victory […]

March 14 (Reuters) – Kharg Island, where U.S. forces on Friday destroyed military targets, is the hub for 90% of Iran’s oil exports and has long been seen as a key vulnerability that would provoke a severe response by Tehran if attacked. President Donald Trump said on social media that the U.S. “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Kharg and threatened that oil infrastructure could be targeted if Iran continues […]