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DUBAI, June 3 (Reuters) – The Israeli military said it intercepted a “hostile aircraft” that crossed into northern Israel from Lebanon on Wednesday. It did not link the drone to Hezbollah, and the Iran-backed group has not claimed responsibility for the incident. Lebanon had announced a partial ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel that would see Israel halt strikes on Beirut’s Hezbollah-controlled suburbs and Hezbollah stop attacks on Israel, though the […]

LONDON, June 3 (Reuters) – A helicopter has crashed into a field in Devon, southwest England, British police said on Wednesday, adding that emergency services were attending the scene and the incident was ongoing. British media, citing police, reported that the helicopter was a Royal Navy aircraft. The Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Reporting by Sarah Young, writing by Sam Tabahriti) Brought to […]

MADRID, June 3 (Reuters) – Spanish hotel group Melia said on Wednesday it would immediately stop managing, marketing and providing brand services for 15 hotels in Cuba, pointing to the island’s worsening geopolitical, legal and economic conditions. The move comes as U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration steps up pressure on Cuba, using an oil blockade and tighter sanctions in an effort to cut off resources and force a change in […]

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The motto for Pope Leo XIV’s upcoming visit to Spain is “Lift up your eyes.” And that’s exactly what millions of visitors to Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia already do as the unfinished basilica continues rising skyward a century after Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí’s death. On June 10, Leo will bless the recently completed central tower of Gaudí’s masterpiece which, topped by a white cross, has made it […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian investigators searched the National Nutrition Agency’s offices Wednesday a day after the president fired the head of the agency responsible for his troubled free meals program. It wasn’t clear whether the search by agents of the Attorney General’s Office was tied to a criminal investigation. The program delivered on a campaign promise of President Prabowo Subianto and aimed to fight malnutrition by feeding nearly 90 […]

NEW DELHI (AP) — A fire swept through a building in a New Delhi neighborhood Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring several others, officials said. The building in the Malviya Nagar neighborhood in the southern part of the city had a restaurant on the ground floor and residential units above. Fire crews rescued 37 people from the building, fire official Abhilash Malik said. The fire was extinguished, but […]

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra formally completed all his obligations related to a prison sentence on Wednesday, when a royal pardon ended his four-month probation early. The 76-year-old billionaire populist, who was a dominant force in Thai politics for more than two decades, was released from a Bangkok prison last month to cheering crowds. There has since been speculation that he might continue to exert his […]

June 3 (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Amazon.com said on Wednesday it has launched its paid Prime service in South Africa, offering faster deliveries and media content for 59 South African rand ($3.61) a month or 399 rand a year. Here are some details: • Amazon Prime is already available in 26 other countries, with Prime Day, one of Amazon’s biggest sales events, scheduled for June 23-29 in South Africa. • […]

NEW DELHI, June 3 (Reuters) – At least 21 people were killed in a fire at a hotel in Delhi on Wednesday, police said, in one of the worst such incidents in the national capital in recent years. The hotel was located in Malviya Nagar in south Delhi, they said, a predominantly residential area popular with students and young professionals. At least 40 people have been rescued so far, police […]