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The US military has confirmed it conducted a counterterrorism operation in northwestern Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby was short on details, calling the mission a success and saying the American troops suffered no casualties. Sources on the ground described a large gun battle to the media, and said some …

The first case of a potentially dangerous combination of Covid-19 and the flu has been discovered in a young, pregnant, unvaccinated woman in Israel. The hybrid condition was diagnosed at Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva earlier this week, when a woman went into labor. “She was diagnosed with the …

“We are currently analyzing two suspicious samples,” Marc Van Ranst, a leading virologist whose laboratory works closely with Belgium’s public health body Sciensano, said on Twitter. The virologist elaborated on his remark to Reuters, explaining the samples were described as “suspicious” since they were not the Delta variant, which has …

Photos and footage purportedly of the scene show huge clouds of white smoke billowing over the site, with a number of smaller blasts reported after an initial larger explosion. DETAILS TO FOLLOW

According to an alert sent out by the school and shared online by recipients, police are responding to calls of multiple bombs in campus buildings, many of which are being evacuated and blocked-off by police. A Yale Police Department officer told Yale Daily News that multiple law enforcement agencies have …

Alphabet has been “aggressively pursuing” the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract, the New York Times reported earlier this week, noting that the organization viewed it as a priority. The initiative – a successor to the Pentagon’s failed ‘war cloud’ project – apparently aims to use “artificial …

The shooting was reported at the 5-star hotel on Thursday afternoon, with witnesses saying that a gunman approached from the adjacent beach and began shooting. Other conflicting reports suggested that “men with machine guns” had stormed the beach. NBCUniversal executive Mike Sington was at the hotel and described being shepherded to …

A probe into the teenager’s death has been launched, the country’s major news agency Yonhap reported on Saturday, citing health authorities. The unnamed child was a high schooler who was vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in mid-August. Specifying that the young vaccine recipient had no underlying health conditions, authorities said the …

The explosion hit the Imam Barga mosque while Shia worshippers were gathering at a packed Friday prayers, leaving local media reporting multiple casualties, although an exact number is not yet known.  The cause of the blast has not been confirmed but it is thought to have been a suicide bombing. …

On Wednesday, Kosovan police undertook raids against smuggler gangs across the northern part of the country, notably the divided town of Mitrovica, where special officers faced oppositions from local Serbs.  A police statement said the raids took place in four areas, most of which are populated by the country’s Serb …