Palestinians in the West Bank have clashed with Israeli soldiers amid rising tension and renewed fighting in Gaza. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Hours after she escaped the Columbine High School shooting, 14-year-old Missy Mendo slept between her parents in bed, still wearing the shoes she had on when she fled her math class. Then again in 2022, when 19 students and two teachers were shot and killed in Uvalde, Texas. Mendo had been filling out her daughter's pre-kindergarten application when news of the elementary school shooting broke.
South Korea's LG Electronics is aiming to raise up to $1 billion in a dollar bond deal, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The company has mandated investment banks to work on a 3-year and 5-year dollar bond deal, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters on Thursday. LG Electronics did not have immediate comment.
In an alibli court filing, lawyers for Bryan Kohberger, accused of fatally stabbing four University of Iowa students, claim he was "out driving" the night of the killings.
The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for decades urged the Security Council on Wednesday to ensure its survival as Israel again demanded its dissolution, accusing the agency of becoming part of Hamas’ “terror war machine.” Philippe Lazzarini told the council that dismantling the agency known as UNRWA would deepen Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and speed up the onset of famine. International experts have warned of imminent famine in northern Gaza and said half the territory’s 2.3 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation if the six-month Israeli-Hamas war intensifies.
The Philippines' decision to ramp up ties with Japan and the United States is a "sovereign choice", its foreign ministry said on Thursday, urging China to "reflect upon its own actions" in the South China Sea. "The source of tension in our region is well known to all," the foreign affairs department said in a statement. "It is China's excessive maritime claims and aggressive behaviour, including its militarisation of reclaimed features, that are undermining regional peace and stability and raising tensions," it added.
Sydney's Bondi Westfield mall on Thursday reopened for the first time since a man with a knife killed six people there on Saturday before police shot him. The operators of the Westfield mall, about 3 kilometres (2 miles) from the city's iconic Bondi Beach, allowed residents enter to pay their respects to the victims, with stores remaining closed and a white floral tribute laid out on the second floor. Normal trading will resume on Friday, while a candlelight vigil at the beach on Sunday will mourn the victims, authorities said.
Janel Hawkins of Gulf Shores, Alabama, owns a sandcastle-building business that makes intricate architectural structures like Victorian houses, houses and signs.
Gay '30 Rock' actor Maulik Pancholy was disinvited from speaking at a middle school anti-bullying assembly in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
A man was arrested in California after police say he impersonated a priest in order to steal from churches. The man was allegedly active in California, New York and Texas.
A Sydney shopping mall opened to the public on Thursday for the first time since a mass stabbing i n which six people died, while the Australian prime minister raised giving citizenship to an immigrant security guard who was wounded while confronting the knife-wielding attacker. The deadly rampage through Westfield Bondi Junction on Saturday was the earlier of two knife attacks by lone assailants over three days that have traumatized Sydney. A 16-year-old boy is in police custody after he allegedly stabbed a Christian bishop and priest during a church service on Monday.
Speaker Mike Johnson announced Wednesday he is sticking with his plan to put a series of foreign aid bills on the floor including funding for Ukraine after facing significant pressure from hardliners.
Vote counting was under way Thursday in the South Pacific's Solomon Islands, a contest keenly watched from afar as China's efforts to stamp its mark on the region are tested.Hand counting the paper votes is only the start of an arduous electoral process.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday suggested twice that the United States was unable to recover his uncle Ambrose Finnegan’s remains after Finnegan’s plane crashed near New Guinea during World War II, “because there used to be a lot of cannibals” in the region.
“We had four great years together,” Trump said.
Receiving dignitaries at his Florida estate and courting leaders shunned elsewhere as autocratic, Donald Trump is increasingly leading a shadow diplomacy diametrically opposed to US President Joe Biden. - Not on 'my watch' - A potential Trump return has caused unease among many traditional political leaders in US allies.
“That man doesn’t deserve to have been the commander in chief for my son, my uncle,” he said, referring to Beau Biden and Ambrose Finnegan who both served in the military.
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho the night of the murders, his attorney says, and plans to offer a cellphone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document supporting an alibi defense filed Wednesday shows.
In the first quarter of the year 323 drugs were in shortage, surpassing the 2014 high of 320, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists said.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the dominant producer of advanced chips used in artificial intelligence applications, is expected to report a 5% rise in first-quarter profit on Thursday thanks to strong demand. The world's largest contract chipmaker, whose customers include Apple and Nvidia, has benefited from a surge towards AI that has helped it weather the tapering off of pandemic-led electronics demand and pushed TSMC's stock to a record high. TSMC is set to report a net profit of T$218.1 billion ($6.74 billion) for the quarter ended March 31, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate drawn from 22 analysts.
Dealing with occasionally rowdy guests as a hotel manager and keeping an orderly workplace as a dishwasher while in college appear to have uniquely prepared the judge handling Donald Trump's trial.He worked as a dishwasher and hotel manager at night while in university, which he was the first of six siblings to attend.
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