UMM AL-QUWAIN, United Arab Emirates – The hulking, Soviet-era cargo plane has sat for decades under the blazing sun in a remote corner of the United Arab Emirates, its four jet engines silent after years in the employ of a Russian gunrunner known as the “Merchant of Death.”
BEIRUT – Ramy Finge spent two years braving tear gas and rubber bullets, sometimes trying to scale the cement walls surrounding Lebanon’s parliament during antigovernment protests. Soon he’ll be able to walk in through the front door.
MAY — Representatives of North Lake Community Church honored the May ISD faculty Tuesday during a school assembly, first by presenting an apple and a small homemade cross to each faculty member and then making a presentation to retiring superintendent Steve Howard and his wife, Laura.
OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law the nation’s strictest abortion ban, making the state the first in the nation to effectively end availability of the procedure.
Shane Britton won nearly 63 percent of the votes in Tuesday’s Brown County Republican Party runoff election to defeat Brown County Judge Paul Lilly in the race for Lilly’s seat. In other races, Precinct 2 County Commissioner Joel Kelton and Precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Ted Perez defeated challengers to retain their seats.
WASHINGTON – The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year even though consumers and businesses kept spending at a solid pace, the government reported Thursday in a slight downgrade of its previous estimate for the January-March quarter.
RAMALLAH, West Bank – The Palestinian Authority on Thursday said its investigation into the shooting death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh proves she was deliberately killed by Israeli forces.
The severe thunderstorm that hit Brown County Tuesday night produced hail, high winds and flash flooding in some parts of the county and caused power outages. The storm prompted a tornado warning around 5 p.m., although no tornado was confirmed.
Texas court spares man who killed girl, 11, from execution FORT WORTH, Texas – Texas’ top criminal appeals court on Wednesday ordered a man convicted of killing an 11-year-old girl be removed from the state’s death row. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled by a 6-3 vote that Juan Ramon Meza Segundo does not qualify for execution because of intellectual disability under a recent Supreme Court standard.
KYIV, Ukraine – Moscow pressed the West on Thursday to lift sanctions against Russia over the war in Ukraine, seeking to shift the blame for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tons of grain and other agricultural products due to the conflict.