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HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. scientists declared Tuesday that two active Hawaii volcanoes — one where lava destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018 and another where lava recently stalled before reaching a crucial Big Island highway — have stopped erupting. “Kilauea is no longer erupting,” the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a statement Tuesday, followed by a separate one saying, “Mauna Loa is no longer erupting.” Alert levels […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian attacks, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is […]

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ROME (AP) — A Vatican cardinal sued a Canadian woman for defamation in a Canadian court on Tuesday after she accused him of sexual assault when he was archbishop of Quebec. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, is seeking $100,000 in compensatory damages for “injury to his reputation, honor and dignity,” according to a copy of the complaint provided by Ouellet’s office. The woman, identified only as […]

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s political parties from the left to the right have agreed to try again to replace the constitution imposed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship four decades ago. The accord was announced in the former Congress building, the same place where Chile’s entire political firmament — except for the Communist Party, which wouldn’t join them — agreed in 2019 to begin the constitutional process that wound […]

West Failed To Recognize Iranian Threat Until It Reached Its Backyard, Experts Say Military cooperation between Russia and Iran has been ongoing for years, but Western powers only took note once it reached Ukraine By Maya Margit/The Media Line Western powers failed to address the threat of Iranian drones for years until they were used to target civilians in Ukraine, according to regional experts. The United States recently expressed alarm […]

BERLIN (AP) — The German defense ministry on Tuesday announced plans to make it easier to dismiss suspected extremists from the military without lengthy disciplinary proceedings. The change has been in the works for months, but the announcement followed the uncovering last week of an alleged coup plot in which more than 20 people linked to the far-right Reich Citizens movement were detained. Those arrested included a soldier serving on […]

PA, Israel Carry Out Mass Arrests Against Hamas Members These latest roundups are a sign that the PA and Israel still fear Hamas’ growing presence in the West Bank, analyst says By Mohammad Al-Kassim/The Media Line Palestinian Authority security forces have launched a massive crackdown against Hamas members, sympathizers and university students affiliated with Hamas in the West Bank, arresting nearly 300 members of the Islamic movement that governs the […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday that it rescued 34 Haitian migrants abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico, the second such incident in less than a month. The migrants were found after employees with Puerto Rico’s Department of Natural Resources reported seeing multiple campfires on Monito Island, located in the treacherous waters that separate the U.S. territory from the Dominican […]