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The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally struck after her Uber driver pulled over along a southern California highway were awarded $40 million after an arbitrator found both Uber and the driver liable for her death. Carol Normandin and Ken Parker said on Friday (September 18, 2026) that they hope the amount will…
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U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey. File | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. State Department approved a potential $2.7 billion military sale to Ukraine for air defence development upgrades and related equipment and services, the department said in a congressional notification…
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Houthis say that the number of Saudi strikes on its positions had reached 300 over the last week. File | Photo Credit: AP Yemen’s Houthis said on Friday (September 18, 2026) that Saudi Arabia had launched 26 strikes against areas under their control in the past 24 hours, as the pro-Iran group and Yemen’s Riyadh-backed…
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Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. File | Photo Credit: Reuters North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, accused the International Atomic Energy Agency on Saturday (September 19, 2026) of double standards after it adopted a resolution criticising Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme. The IAEA’s “biased viewpoint and…
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The ruling came in a class-action lawsuit filed by migrants subject to deportation orders that has become a key test of what due process protections the government must provide before removing people to countries with which they have no connection. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A U.S. federal appeals court rejected on Friday (September 18,…
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Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump will have a meeting with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez in New York on Tuesday (September 22, 2026), a senior U.S. official said, in what will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Washington ousted former Venezuelan President…
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U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. File | Photo Credit: Reuters More U.S. troops have died during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed, the Washington Post reported on Friday (September 18, 2026). Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth denied the report. The Post, citing five unidentified officials, reported that there had been at…
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The announcement suggests that U.S. Preside Trump was pleased with the outcome of the negotiations, and that he may not revive his territorial claims, at least in the near future. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States, Denmark and Greenland have entered into an agreement for the U.S. to develop a significant military presence…
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Firefighters inspecting damage to a building caused by falling debris from a drone that Saudi authorities said was launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels and intercepted over Taif province, western Saudi Arabia. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan will go to “any extent” to defend Saudi Arabia, a top Army general has said, asserting that Islamabad’s commitment…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU officials attend a summit in a Carpathian 8 Summit in Bukovel, western Ukraine, on September 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hosted leaders and representatives from seven regional countries for talks on deepening cooperation on Friday (September 18, 2026), after overnight Russian strikes in multiple…
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