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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A port strike on the U.S. East Coast and Gulf of Mexico will go ahead starting on Tuesday, the International Longshoremen’s Association union said today, signaling action that could cause delays and snarl supply chains.

KATHMANDU,  (Reuters) – Nepal has shut schools for three days after landslides and floods triggered by two days of heavy rain across the Himalayan nation killed 129 people, with 62 missing, officials said yesterday.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT,  (Reuters) – Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Authorities across the southeastern U.S. faced the daunting task yesterday of cleaning up from Hurricane Helene, one of the most powerful and perhaps costliest storms to hit the country, as the death toll continued to rise.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Donald Trump yesterday deployed some of his harshest rhetoric against immigrants who have crossed the border illegally and committed crimes, especially against young women, while he also escalated his personal insults against Kamala Harris.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he ordered military chiefs to plan a raid on a Dutch factory in March 2021 to secure 5 million COVID vaccines that the European Union had threatened to bar from being exported to Britain.

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut, dealing a huge blow to the Iran-backed group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks.

ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Tropical Depression Helene brought life-threatening flooding yesterday to wide sections of the U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Dame Maggie Smith, who died on Friday aged 89, was a perfectionist who turned anxiety into an art form and was hailed as one of the great actors of stage and screen.

(Reuters) – Helene roared through Florida and Georgia states under darkness today as one of the most powerful storms to hit the United States, killing one person, swamping neighborhoods and leaving more than 2 million homes and businesses without power.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Japan’s incoming prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said he wanted to clean up his ruling party, revitalise the economy and see off security threats from powerful neighbours after triumphing in his fifth and what he called final leadership bid today.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday charged New York City Mayor Eric Adams with accepting illegal campaign contributions and luxury travel from Turkish nationals seeking to influence him, capping an investigation that has sent the largest U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China’s newest nuclear-powered attack submarine sank earlier this year, a senior U.S.

(Reuters) – Driving rain flooded roadways and closed airports in Florida as an intensifying Hurricane Helene marched toward the state’s panhandle region, bringing the threat of a potentially deadly storm surge to much of the coastline.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Hurricane John strengthened once again yesterday as it hurled rain at Mexico’s southwestern coast dotted with ports and tourist hotspots, an area already soaked by the slow-moving storm system over the past several days.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store for Earth billions of years from now – showing it is possible our planet might survive the death of the sun, albeit as a cold and desolate outpost in space.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) –  Israel rejected global calls yesterday for a ceasefire with the Hezbollah movement, defying its biggest ally in Washington and pressing ahead with strikes that have killed hundreds in Lebanon and heightened fears of an all-out regional war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s wrongful detention and deportation of Caribbean migrants was the result of decades of racist immigration laws designed to reduce the country’s non-white population, a long-withheld official report showed today.

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israel rejected proposals today for a ceasefire with Hezbollah, defying calls from allies including the United States for a halt in fighting.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced more than $8 billion in military assistance for Ukraine today to help Kyiv “win this war” against Russian invaders, using a visit by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make a major commitment.