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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday denied a CNN report that the CIA was carrying out deadly operations in Mexican territory, accusing the U.S.-based news organization of attempting to “hurt the government and the people of Mexico.” CNN reported Tuesday that the CIA facilitated a targeted assassination of a member of the Sinaloa cartel on the highway outside Mexico City, fueling a firestorm in Mexico. The […]

United Airlines flight attendants have approved a new labor contract that will bring their first pay increases in six years — along with boarding pay, a long-sought change that compensates crew members for the work they do before the plane leaves the gate. The five-year agreement, ratified on Tuesday, covers nearly 30,000 flight attendants at United. It includes an average 31% pay increase this summer, boarding pay worth an additional […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is suspending a requirement that foreign visitors from certain countries pay as much as $15,000 in bonds if they are confirmed World Cup ticket holders, the State Department told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The department imposed the bond requirement last year for countries that it said had high rates of people overstaying their visas and other security issues as part of the Republican […]

The $50 Billion Roadmap: Can Abu Dhabi Engineer Regional Stability Through Syria’s Reconstruction?   Rizik Alabi/The Media Line    [DAMASCUS] Damascus and Abu Dhabi on Monday, May 11, launched a comprehensive economic road map valued at more than $50 billion in what officials described as a major turning point in Syria’s recovery efforts and a new phase of Arab-led development in the Eastern Mediterranean.   The announcement came during the first Syrian-Emirati Investment Forum, hosted in Damascus, with the participation of […]

A $655 Million Judgment Against the PA Reopens the Long Fight for Justice for US Victims of the Second Intifada  A federal appeals court has reinstated a $655.5 million judgment against the Palestinian Authority and PLO, more than two decades after American families sued over attacks from the Second Intifada  By Gabriel Colodro/The Media Line   Alan Bauer was not thinking about litigation when he picked his son up from a […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the week began, several senior positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were already sitting empty. There was no Senate-confirmed U.S. surgeon general. The head of the National Institutes of Health was doubling as the acting head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Food and Drug Administration lacked a permanent vaccine chief after that official was ousted for a […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian authorities said that Israeli police have shot and killed a Palestinian man as he attempted to climb the concrete barrier separating the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem. The Palestinian Health Ministry and the Palestinian Red Crescent identified the man as Zakaria Qatusa, 44, from the town of Deir Qadis, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) northwest of the site of the shooting Tuesday evening in […]

CAIRO (AP) — Doctors who examined Nobel Peace laureate and activist Narges Mohammadi more than a week after she collapsed at a prison in Iran say she needs months of treatment, her foundation said Wednesday. An angiography procedure showed two of her main arteries have significant blockage and that her vascular disease has significantly deteriorated since she last had the procedure in 2024, the foundation said in a statement. Mohammadi, […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff has been named by two Ukrainian anti-corruption watchdogs as a suspect in a major graft probe, bringing the once right-hand man who once wielded enormous influence in the country’s wartime planning under direct scrutiny. Andrii Yermak is officially suspected of taking part in an alleged 460-million hryvnia ($10.5 million) money-laundering scheme, according to Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the […]