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Israel has released four more Lebanese civilians who had been detained by its forces in southern Lebanon. Ship traffic remains low on the Strait of Hormuz days after the U.S. and Iran exchanged attacks for the first time in a month. Here’s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here. Israel released four Lebanese civilians to Lebanese […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen shares rose 6% on Friday after its board of directors approved sweeping cost cuts aimed at confronting challenges including ferocious Chinese competition and US tariffs. Investors were cheered by CEO Oliver Blume’s success Thursday in pushing the streamlining effort through the board, where employees are strongly represented. The plan envisions reducing Volkswagen’s work force by 50,000, phasing out four factories in Germany to eliminate expensive […]

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court ordered the arrest of Vice President Sara Duterte on Friday over charges that she publicly threatened to have the president and two other people assassinated. Duterte was already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges as well as alleged financial anomalies. Her troubles are part of a high-stakes political showdown pitting her against her rival, President Ferdinand Marcos […]

TYRE, Lebanon (AP) — Four prisoners from Lebanon held in Israel were released and handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross Friday as part of a deal between the two countries. In return, Lebanon agreed to search for the bodies of Jewish Lebanese citizens who went missing during the country’s civil war decades ago. Dozens of Lebanese prisoners are believed to be held in Israeli detention centers, […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Air pollution in a town in Sarawak state on Borneo Island breached Malaysia’s emergency-level threshold on Friday amid worsening haze linked to forest and land fires in neighboring Indonesia. The Air Pollutant Index in Serian, a small agricultural town of just under 90,000 near the border of Indonesia’s Kalimantan province, surged to 521 on Friday, according to Malaysia’s environment department. Sarawak’s much-larger capital, Kuching, also […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Diesel hit a new record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time ever as the six-month war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel. Because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks, higher diesel prices mean higher transportation costs for a long list of everyday goods. More expensive fuel is increasing bills for […]

By Heather Schlitz YPSILANTI, Michigan, Sept 4 (Reuters) – During the height of the summer outbreak of cyclosporiasis, Dea Lancaster set aside her usual duties as nurse coordinator at Michigan’s Washtenaw County Health Department to call patients, asking about their symptoms and tracing the contaminated food they ate. The stress of handling one of the largest U.S. foodborne illness outbreaks in decades gave her an eye twitch as she called dozens […]

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Investors will zero in on inflation data next week that they say could determine whether the U.S. Federal Reserve hikes interest rates later in the month. Major U.S. stock indexes as of Thursday were on pace for their second straight week of gains, lifting the benchmark S&P 500 to just 0.7% shy of its mid-August record high. Equities were boosted by […]

By Nate Raymond Sept 4 (Reuters) – Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial will begin a seventh day of deliberations on Friday after repeatedly hitting an impasse over whether to convict the Massachusetts woman of killing her three young children, a tragedy her lawyer says was driven by postpartum psychosis. The 12 jurors are expected to reconvene in Plymouth, Massachusetts, a day after Judge William Sullivan rejected a request by […]