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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah said on Saturday "takfiri groups" were responsible for a blast which killed the group's top military commander Mustafa Badreddine.

"Takfiri" is a word used by the group to refer to hard-line, armed, Sunni Islamist groups.

Hezbollah announced Badreddine's death on Friday and a military funeral was held for him on the same day in the group's stronghold in southern Beirut. 

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It's time for a women's museum, says pioneering female commercial airline pilot.

The consumer watchdog is examining the timing and notice of cuts to the milk price paid to farmers.

It’s a discovery likely to rewrite the story of southeastern United States. Stone tools and mastodon bones found at the bottom of a Florida river point to humans living in the region 14,550 years ago. That’s more than 1,500 years earlier than previously believed, scientists say. “This is a big deal,” said Jessi Halligan, one […]

ADNA — After all of the off-season hours in the batting cages, or as Wahkiakum coach Marc Niemeyer called it, “that kid who puts in a million hours”, the second-year coach felt Hank Ferguson's eighth-inning walk-off double couldn’t have happened…

TOKYO - Yoko Namba, a female Japan Coast Guard employee, is seen inside the cockpit of a helicopter in the n...

A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb inside a police training center in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, killing at least three people, a local official said.

Four people were killed when a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform detonated a car bomb inside a police training center in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, a local official said.

The attack happened at around 9:30 a.m. near a school in the Nad Ali district to the west of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Stars and Stripes.

Human rights groups says 25 FDA-approved drugmakers have now restricted their products from being used in executions

Former Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was charged with defrauding the state, media reported Saturday.

MEXICO CITY - FIFA President Gianni Infantino announces at a FIFA Congress in Mexico City on May 13, 2016, the app...

Federal Liberal MP Craig Laundy, whose marginal seat is affected by involuntary council mergers, says he expects voters not to punish him for the Baird government's agenda.

A man is arrested in connection with an attack on Manchester United's team bus outside West Ham's Boleyn Ground.

The Reds Devils were never going to challenge for the title according to their manager, as his side hope to still qualify for the Champions League next season

The 70-year-old jewelry maker from Bainbridge Island had been so moved upon reading about the refugees flooding there from Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East that she decided she had to help, in person, the Seattle Times reported (http://bit.ly/23HP3Bb). From here, supplies travel to the refugees, often as extra luggage carried by volunteers such as Olsen who have signed up with a bootstrap aid organization called Salaam Cultural Museum, in offices above the garage. [...] a just-negotiated... Читать дальше...

Program pairs first-time mothers with nurses Bohling is helping Jackson and about 20 other local mothers with advice on everything from breastfeeding to building job skills. The Nurse Family Partnership managed by the Cowlitz County Health Department pairs nurses with low-income expectant women. The goal of the federally funded program, which costs $374,000 per year, is to improve the health of both mothers and babies and help the moms set employment and educational goals. National studies have... Читать дальше...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Pendleton Early Learning Center teacher Sarah Yoshioka gathered her class at the front of the room before ceding the floor to Shawndine Jones and Mildred Quaempts.

Maybe blame the approaching summer, the warmer temperatures and some great games from Clayton Kershaw, but lately we've been thinking a lot about beer and the beach. Well, more than usual at least.

Whether it's a certain celebrity style or designer acumen, the luxury home beat is a great honey hole to fish for ideas and inspiration. This week's line snared a range of eye-catching homes and features. Here are a few of our favorites. - Neal J. Leitereg Subscribe to the newsletter A lesson of...

For years, Gov. Jerry Brown has resisted efforts to spend more money to build affordable housing.

The Albert Hotel was given a zero food hygiene rating.

Sexy Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage, has shown her fans that she is not going to brood over spilled milk. The beautiful singer and mother has set aside all her marital brouhaha and she is out and about. Yesterday, May 13, she was in a meeting with the top executives of Forte Oil, which is a […]