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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A man carrying what authorities described as an explosive device powerful enough to damage a plane, as well as a torch lighter, knife, zip ties and other items, was arrested after trying to pass through a Sacramento International Airport security checkpoint over the weekend, federal prosecutors said. The 49-year-old from Sacramento was wearing a scarf covering his face and latex gloves, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said […]

ZURICH, June 4 (Reuters) – The chairman of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche hit out at U.S. tariff policies on Thursday, likening them to “blackmail”, and said protectionism by the United States and China was the firm’s biggest geopolitical concern. Severin Schwan was asked about the agreement his firm struck with the Trump administration late last year to slash prices for medicines in the United States after U.S. officials had threatened […]

By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, June 4 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in May Ukraine would buy 20 of Saab’s Gripen E fighter jets and Sweden will gift another 16 of an older model, to help Ukraine in the war against Russia. The two countries signed a letter of intent last year paving the way for Sweden to sell up to 150 jets and Ukraine has allocated €2.5 billion […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans filing for jobless aid hit their highest level in four months last week, but layoffs remain historically low despite ongoing economic uncertainty brought on by the war in Iran. U.S. applications for unemployment benefits for the week ending May 30 increased by 13,000 to 225,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the most since early February, before the U.S. and Israel launched attacks […]

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Israel and Lebanon have agreed to renew their shaky ceasefire, with an aim to continue talks later this month for a comprehensive peace deal. The U.S.-brokered agreement, announced in a joint statement by the U.S., Israel and Lebanon Wednesday, comes after Israeli forces made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter century. But it includes several contentious points, including the creation of “pilot” […]

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A small plane crashed in Croatia on Thursday, killing at least four people, police said. The plane crashed near Medulin, a town on the Istria peninsula, a statement said. The official HINA news agency reported that it was a German plane that took off from Austria. Photos from the scene showed the plane wreckage in a field and police and firefighters at the scene. Local pilot […]

MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is a particularly stark example of the Midwest’s broader struggle with water pollution. It’s a leading agricultural state that also has lots of rivers and streams. Runoff from fertilizer and manure on farms contains nitrates and phosphorus that drain into those waters, making Iowa among the leading contributors to an aquatic dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Residents have lived with water pollution for […]

MANCHESTER, Iowa (AP) — Hannah Ray J Childs propelled her kayak into a rapid on Iowa’s Maquoketa River on a recent afternoon and dipped her paddle in the water to swing the front of her boat into the air. She loves to spend her days performing whitewater kayaking acrobatics that dunk her body in the water and give her the “feeling of flying,” she said. The water is where she […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Hezbollah on Thursday rejected the latest ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and the Lebanese government, demanding a complete Israeli withdrawal. The announcement came as Israeli strikes killed at least four people, according to local authorities, and a U.N. peacekeeper was killed in the crossfire. Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem, in a written statement read on TV, said the agreement’s demand that Hezbollah fighters leave southern Lebanon under fire […]