Chanting rhythmically in the summer sun, the men marched through the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh as part of their annual tradition to mark Ashura, the holiest day in the Shi’ite Muslim calendar. This year, they walked through a city in ruins.
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John Bolton, a former national security adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump who has since become one of his fiercest critics, pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to mishandling classified information and faces up to five years in prison.
The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations into deaths of people in U.S. immigration custody, saying that 19 people have died in detention so far this year.
Israel and Lebanon signed a framework agreement in Washington on Friday following several days of talks to secure an end to fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah militants.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it detain people arrested in its immigration crackdown without a chance to seek bond, even if they have lived in the country for years.
The United Nations is working with countries to resume the evacuation of hundreds of ships and thousands of stranded seafarers from the Strait of Hormuz after the effort was halted earlier this week, a top U.N. agency official said on Friday.
Luxury group LVMH said no water was wasted in the giant artificial waterfall built by its flagship Louis Vuitton brand to open Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, as the French capital sweltered through a record-breaking heatwave that has made water use a sensitive issue.
Even by SpaceX standards, Friday is shaping up as an eventful trading session as investment funds tracking Russell indexes prepare to add billions of dollars’ worth of Elon Musk’s internet and rocket company to their holdings.
The dollar heads into the second half of 2026 on a high, thanks to bets for higher U.S. interest rates and an unquenchable thirst for U.S. assets from investors chasing the “American exceptionalism” that may spell more pain for other currencies.
Billionaire investor Leon Black told a U.S. congressional panel on Friday that he had no involvement or knowledge of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “heinous conduct.”