World

LONDON/PARIS/ROME, (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy yesterday discussed his proposed “victory plan” with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, and the incoming head of NATO as he seeks to garner military support to put himself in a position for eventual peace talks.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A senior Hezbollah official eluded an Israeli assassination attempt yesterday in Beirut, three security sources said, as Israeli strikes there killed 22 people and the U.N.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean today after cutting a destructive path across Florida that spawned tornados, killed at least 10 people and left millions without power, but the storm did not trigger the catastrophic surge of seawater that was feared.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”, the award-giving body said today.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has erased Republican rival Donald Trump’s advantage in the vast middle of American society: suburban residents and middle-income households, an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos polling shows.

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton made landfall on Florida’s west coast yesterday, striking a little sooner and further south than forecast, offering the state a glimmer of hope it might be spared the worst of the anticipated catastrophe.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, (Reuters) –  U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke yesterday about potential Israeli retaliation against Iran while Lebanon’s Hezbollah said its fighters pushed back advancing Israeli forces along the border.

(Reuters) – Ratan Tata, the former Tata  Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, has died, the Tata Group said in a statement late on Wednesday.

TAMPA, Florida, (Reuters) – Hurricane Milton barreled toward Florida’s battered Gulf Coast as an enormous Category 5 storm on Tuesday, triggering massive traffic jams and fuel shortages as officials ordered more than 1 million people to flee before it slams into the Tampa Bay area.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday Israeli airstrikes had killed two successors to Hezbollah’s slain leader, as Israel expanded its  ground offensive against the Iran-backed group with a fourth army division deployed into south Lebanon.

BUCHAREST, (Reuters) – Romania’s top court said a far-right candidate’s pro-Russian, anti-European Union and anti-NATO opinions made her ineligible to run for president in an upcoming election in a ruling which threatened to topple the coalition government.

 LONDON, (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s population grew by 1% in annual terms to 68.3 million as of mid-2023, mainly due to high immigration, official data showed yesterday.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said yesterday.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries and inventions that laid the foundation for machine learning, the award-giving body said today.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa, and Israel looked poised to expand its offensive into Lebanon yesterday, one year after the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Milton strengthened rapidly in the southern Gulf of Mexico yesterday as it skirted the northern edge of the Yucatan peninsula, home to tourist hotspots and cargo ports, with a strike expected on Florida this week.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate  Donald Trump said yesterday there are “a lot of bad genes” in the United States, while discussing murders allegedly committed by immigrants living illegally in the United States.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) –  U.S. scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine yesterda#y for the discovery of microRNA and its crucial role in how multicellular organisms grow and live.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Cissy Houston, Grammy-winning soul and gospel singer and mother of the late Whitney Houston, died in her New Jersey home yesterday at the age of 91.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – A British doctor yesterday pleaded guilty to an audacious but unsuccessful plot to kill his mother’s partner with a fake COVID-19 vaccine, which involved him forging medical documents and dressing in disguise to inject his victim with poison.