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People who lived near the disastrous East Palestine train derailment last year should still be able to receive personal injury payments even while the bulk of their $600 million class action settlement with Norfolk Southern railroad remains on hold dur...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Israel expanded its offensive in Lebanon, sending more troops to conduct ground operations along the countries’ shared border and warning people to stay away from the coast of southern Lebanon ahead of a maritime operation. The additional Israeli forces are being added as the military expands its operations from the eastern part of the border to the west.

Officials say a massive explosion outside Pakistan's Karachi Airport has killed two workers from China and injured several others

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KAMALA HARRIS’S candidacy has injected some energy into what had been a poisonous presidential race between two old men who bickered over their golf games on national television. But her ascension comes with risks.

Hezbollah in Lebanon overnight and was assessing the damage on Friday after a series of strikes on senior figures in the group that Iran's Supreme Leader dismissed as counterproductive. The air attack on Beirut, part of a wide assault that has driven more than 1.2 million Lebanese from their homes, was reported to have targeted the potential successor to the leader of Hezbollah assassinated by Israel a week ago. Hashem Safieddine's fate was unclear and neither Israel nor Hezbollah have offered any comment.

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar on Friday slammed NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar for seeking the raising of the quota cap in Maharashtra to 75 per cent. He said the demand was a sign of Pawar's «intellectual bankruptcy» and asked when quota benefits will be extended to the cooperative sector, which is dominated by leaders from the undivided Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress. «This is intellectual bankruptcy. Reservation is not a development issue. It is a representative one,» Ambedkar told PTI Video. Speaking in Sangli, Pawar had asked why Maharashtra cannot have 75 per cent reservation when Tamil Nadu is allowed to keep the limit at 78 per cent in consideration of various communities in the southern state. Ambedkar said seeking 75 per cent reservation is akin to running away from the responsibility to provide citizens secure lives. Speaking about Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange, the VBA chief said the former must contest elections or else no one will trust Maratha leaders anymore.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Having a romantic relationship with an employee didn’t used to be a fireable offence for CEOs. They would get canned for misappropriating funds to fuel the affair, or for not fully disclosing the details to the board when they eventually got caught.

southern Lebanon that are north of a UN-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group. Israel has told people to leave Nabatieh, a provincial capital, and other communities north of the Litani River, which formed the northern edge of the border zone established by the UN Security Council after the 2006 war in a resolution that both sides accuse the other of violating. At least eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week. The region was meanwhile bracing for Israeli retaliation following an Iranian ballistic missile attack.

Speaking to The Guardian, governor of the Bank of England Andrew Bailey said the BoE is watching the escalating conflict in the Middle East «extremely closely» but admitted that while the bank will pull out the stops to keep the market stable things could get «really bad». Following the Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon and Iran's retaliatory missile attack this week, oil prices increased by 3% in response to concerns the conflict could obstruct crude oil flows from the Middle East. Market Movers Blog: Oil prices rise as Middle Eastern conflict intensifies «Geopolitical concerns...

The federal government has given a key approval to an offshore wind farm in New Jersey

Hundreds of firefighters and volunteers in southern Greece are battling for a third day a large wildfire that has killed two people and devastated a large forested area

National Milk Producers Federation CEO Gregg Doud discusses the impact that the port strike could have on various industries and the economy on 'The Bottom Line.'

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The public squares and beaches of Beirut are crammed with people who have been displaced from the south of Lebanon and the city’s southern suburbs. The lucky ones have mattresses and blankets to sleep on.

Greek authorities say two people have died overnight in a large wildfire burning through forestland above a seaside resort in southern Greece

Tata Electronics plant in southern India that makes Apple iPhone components after a fire at the weekend, officials said on Monday as they acted to prevent further damage from the blaze. «We have stationed fire engines at the plant as there are chances of a follow-up fire incident or smoke coming off when the sheds that had fallen during the accident are removed,» M. Velu, a district fire officer, told Reuters by telephone. «We have not yet ascertained the cause of the fire.»

Israeli airstrikes have killed seven senior commanders from Hezbollah, including its leader Hassan Nasrallah. These targeted strikes followed Hezbollah's support for Hamas after its attack on southern Israel. The loss of key members, integral since Hezbollah's inception in the 1980s, poses a significant challenge for the militant group, which is a dominant force in Lebanon's military and political landscape.

Israel's killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in an air strike on Friday was a feat of spycraft capping days of operations highlighting its deep infiltration of the Iran-backed group. Here's what we know about how Israel marshalled its intelligence resources to pull off the attack: The buildup

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. BEIRUT—Hassan Nasrallah and other senior leaders of Hezbollah were under siege as they gathered Friday afternoon in a bunker more than 60 feet beneath the surface of a bustling working class neighborhood in southern Beirut. A series of Israeli attacks had killed many of the Lebanese militant group’s senior leaders, blown up its electronic devices and destroyed some of its vast arsenal of missiles.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. DUBAI—Weeks after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, the leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah made a thunderous speech to explain why his men are joining the fight against the “Zionist enemy." Israel was “shaking and trembling" in fear, “weaker than a spider’s web," Hassan Nasrallah said.

Bihar government has sounded an alert for floods in northern, southern and central parts of the state following heavy discharge of water from Birpur and Valmikinagar barrages on Sunday, officials said. The embankment of the Bagmati river in Madhkaul village in Sitamarhi district broke on Sunday, which is being repaired, they said. «Due to this incident, villagers have been evacuated to safer places and the repair work is on...No casualty has been reported so far,» Richie Pandey, District Magistrate (DM), Sitamathi, told reporters. Due to heavy discharge of water from Birpur barrage, seepage was also reported from the Kosi Eastern embankment near Gopalpur on Saturday night, which was repaired by the engineers of the Water Resources Department (WRD).