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Elena-Gabriela Ruse of Romania saved 8 of 9 break points and knocked off No. 3 seed Elise Mertens of Belgium 6-3, 6-3 Thursday to advance to the quarterfinals at the Libema Open in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. The only seeded player to advance Thursday was Czech No. 8 Barbora Krejcikova, a 6-1, 6-4 winner over Belgium’s Hanne Vandewinkel. Austria’s Anastasia Potapova, the fifth seed, retired due to illness down 6-1, 2-0 to […]

By Emily Green and Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY, June 11 (Reuters) – Mexicans celebrated their win against South Africa on Thursday, with an 80,000-full Azteca stadium erupting in a deafening roar as Mexico won the first match of the World Cup, overcoming a curse in which the national team had failed to win on the opening day of the tournament on seven previous occasions.   “It broke the curse, and what better […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rallied to their best day in two months, and oil prices fell Thursday after President Donald Trump called off his threat to bomb Iran in the evening. That raised hopes for a potential deal that could get the global flow of oil going again. The S&P 500 jumped 1.8%, coming off a back-to-back drop that had yanked it back to where it was in early May. The Dow […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he had called off new military strikes on Iran, suggesting progress had been made in talks to end the war just hours after the American leader threatened to escalate the conflict by seizing control of Iran’s oil industry. Trump said in a social media post that he made the move after a breakthrough in negotiations, and that significant […]

US Jewish Groups Back Bipartisan House Bill To Expand Security Funding  By The Media Line Staff  A bipartisan group of US House lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to expand federal security funding for Jewish institutions and strengthen the government response to antisemitism, drawing support from major Jewish organizations as attacks and threats against Jewish communities remain a national concern.  The House bill, led by Reps. Dan Goldman, a New York Democrat, and Mike […]

Explosion at Yemen Military Camp Kills 12 Soldiers in Aden   By The Media Line Staff   Twelve soldiers were killed and several others were injured after an explosion tore through a military installation belonging to Yemen’s pro-government Giants Brigades in Aden early Thursday, local sources told Xinhua.   The blast struck the force’s camp in the Al-Mimdarah area of the southern port city, with residents reporting that the explosions could be heard across much of […]

Security Council Demands Accountability After Death of Serbian UNIFIL Peacekeeper   By The Media Line Staff   The United Nations Security Council condemned the killing of a Serbian peacekeeper serving with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and called for a swift investigation into the attack that left one peacekeeper dead and two others wounded.   In a press statement, Security Council members said the Serbian peacekeeper died from critical injuries […]

More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company’s tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion last month, forcing the evacuation of about 50,000 residents in California’s Orange County. Debbie Cohran, who lives about 500 feet (152 meters) from the aerospace facility in Garden Grove, wasn’t told to evacuate until several hours after the leak started, according to her […]

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The federal government will pay North Dakota nearly $28 million to settle a lawsuit over the costs of policing massive protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline nearly a decade ago, the state’s attorney general announced Thursday. The final settlement agreement’s sum is the same amount a federal judge determined last year after trial. The government also agreed to dismiss all of its appeals and to […]