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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has demanded the immediate and unconditional release of 73 United Nations personnel held by the Houthis in Yemen. The demand came as the United Nations marked two years since a June 2024 wave of detentions. Guterres also

Tropical Storm Amanda, the first named storm of the 2026 eastern Pacific hurricane season, formed over open waters west southwest of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula and maintained 40 mph maximum sustained winds late Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Eleven people have been confirmed dead after a chemical tank ruptured and imploded at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging pulp and paper mill in Longview, Washington, with crews recovering the last of nine missing workers after several days of searches through

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — U.S. President Donald Trump named Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, as special presidential envoy to Syria and Iraq, adding Iraq to a regional diplomatic brief that already included Syria. Trump

California authorities kept a state of emergency in place in Orange County after an overheated storage tank containing methyl methacrylate at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove forced large evacuations and a hazardous materials response. The incident began May

More than 17,000 people remained under evacuation orders in Southern California after the Sandy Fire burned through dry hills above Simi Valley, threatening neighborhoods in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles and prompting a large firefighting response across rugged terrain.

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — The United States announced that Lebanon and Israel agreed to a negotiating framework and a 45-day extension of the April 16 cessation of hostilities, following two days of talks in Washington. The

U.S. President Donald Trump began his visit to China with formal talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, opening the first trip to the country by a sitting U.S. president since 2017 and putting trade, Taiwan and wider

NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the immediate restoration of navigational rights and freedoms in the Strait of Hormuz, sharpening a message he has repeated in recent days as disruption in one of the world’s most important shipping

NEW YORK: The United Nations warned on Monday that time is running out to meet the Sustainable Development Goals as conflict, climate pressures and shrinking development finance push the poorest and most vulnerable countries further off track. In its Financing for Sustainable Development