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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn

The United States, Israel and the Gulf Arab states are pressuring Lebanon’s government to act decisively against the group.

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Hezbollah supporters marching during Ashoura, a Shiite Muslim holiday, near Beirut in July.
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Time Is Running Out for Lebanon to Disarm Hezbollah, U.S. Officials Warn

The United States, Israel and the Gulf Arab states are pressuring Lebanon’s government to act decisively against the group.

© Hassan Ammar/Associated Press

Hezbollah supporters marching during Ashoura, a Shiite Muslim holiday, near Beirut in July.
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"J'ai vu le funiculaire arriver, complètement hors de contrôle" : une journée de deuil national décrétée au Portugal après le déraillement qui a fait 16 morts à Lisbonne

Le Portugal reste sous le choc, jeudi 4 septembre, au lendemain d'un accident dans le plus célèbre funiculaire de Lisbonne, l'un des emblèmes de la ville, qui a déraillé mercredi. Il s'est écrasé sur un immeuble après avoir dévalé une pente. Le choc a été d'une violence inouïe, engendrant 16 morts et 21 blessés, dont une Française.

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After Boat Strike, Rubio Says U.S. Will Help Other Nations ‘Blow Up’ Crime Groups

The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador’s president.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, with President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador at the presidential palace in Quito. The two countries discussed taking on criminal groups.
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Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Kasai Province of Congo

Health officials have recorded 28 suspected cases and 15 fatalities so far in the latest outbreak of the deadly virus, which has claimed thousands of lives in previous outbreaks in the Central African country.

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Receiving a vaccination against Ebola in 2019 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A team, joined by World Health Organization personnel, has been deployed to monitor the latest outbreak.
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Members of Congress Grasp for a Stopgap Deal to Avert a Shutdown

Republicans and Democrats agree they will need a temporary measure to fund the government past Sept. 30, but have yet to come to terms on what it should look like.

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Top Republicans and Democrats in the Senate and House have conceded that a stopgap bill will be needed to keep government funds flowing while they try to reach a long-term compromise.
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"Garanties de sécurité" apportées à l'Ukraine : "On a besoin de continuer à faire monter la pression sur la Russie", défend le ministre Benjamin Haddad

Après une nouvelle réunion de la "Coalition des volontaires", 26 pays en soutien à Kiev ont pris l'engagement de soutenir l'Ukraine "sur le sol, en mer ou dans les airs" en cas de cessez-le-feu avec la Russie, a dit Emmanuel Macron. Il faut aussi mettre plus de pression sur Moscou estime le ministre délégué chargé de l'Europe.

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Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.

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President Trump is claiming the extraordinary power to shift maritime counterdrug efforts from law enforcement rules to wartime rules.
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Justice Dept. Accuses California Utility of Negligence in Deadly Eaton Fire

Federal prosecutors say the January blaze that swept through Altadena, as well as another fire in 2022, were sparked by faulty equipment.

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The Eaton fire killed 19 people when it swept through the community of Altadena near Los Angeles in January.
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After Afghanistan Earthquake, Women Tell of Being Shunned by Male Rescuers

A prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble after a deadly earthquake, witnesses said.

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“It felt like women were invisible,” one volunteer said after witnessing rescue efforts in eastern Afghanistan.
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Man Accused of Killing Israeli Embassy Staffers Pleads Not Guilty

At an arraignment on Thursday, Elias Rodriguez faced federal hate crime and other charges that could result in the death penalty.

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A vigil for Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky near the White House in May.
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After Afghanistan Quake, Women Tell of Being Shunned by Male Rescuers

A prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble after a deadly earthquake, witnesses said.

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“It felt like women were invisible,” one volunteer said after witnessing rescue efforts in eastern Afghanistan.
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Justice Dept. Opens Criminal Inquiry Into Lisa Cook, Elevating Trump’s Claims

The move was instigated by Ed Martin, a Trump loyalist who has said it is legitimate for officials to publicly air criminal investigations into people targeted by the president.

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President Trump has been trying to fire Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, over allegations that she falsified bank documents to obtain favorable terms on a mortgage.
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President of Northwestern, a School Attacked by the G.O.P., Will Resign

The university’s president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university’s research funds.

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Michael Schill, president of Northwestern University, at a House Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington last year.
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Floods in North India Submerge Crops as Farmers Struggle With Debt and Tariffs

The floods, which have killed hundreds, are bad news for farmers weighed down by heavy debt, as India is under pressure from President Trump in tariff negotiations.

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Farmers survey submerged paddy crops near Ramdas in Punjab, India, last week.
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Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm

The Danish company behind Revolution Wind, a $6 billion project off Rhode Island, said the federal government had unlawfully halted work on the wind farm.

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A tour of an Orsted-operated wind farm off the coast of Block Island, R.I., in 2022.
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Trump’s L.A. Military Deployment Cost $120 Million So Far, Newsom Says

The figure reflects the cost of the deployment since June 7, when President Trump ordered National Guard soldiers and Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests.

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Soldiers from the Marines and the California National Guard manned a checkpoint outside a federal building in Los Angeles in June.
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D.C. Sues Trump Administration Over Deployment of National Guard

The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety emergency.”

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National Guard members patrolling the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last month.
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Disparition de l'aviatrice Amelia Earhart : 88 ans après, une expédition pourrait enfin lever le voile sur le sort de la pilote volatilisée dans le Pacifique

L'une des plus grandes énigmes de l'histoire de l'aviation pourrait bientôt être résolue : l'affaire Amelia Earhart, première femme à traverser l'Atlantique, disparue en 1937 alors qu'elle tentait de faire le tour du monde en avion, serait en passe d'être élucidée par une nouvelle expédition.

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