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CAIRO (AP) — Flights resumed on Saturday to Yemen’s capital of Sanaa, held by the country’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels, more than a week after massive Israeli airstrikes disabled the airport.The Israeli strikes on May 6 — a rare daytime attack — destroyed the airport’s terminal and left craters on its runway, according to Khaled al-Shaif, the head of the airport. At least six passenger planes were hit, including three belonging to the national carrier, Yemen Airway or Yemenia, he said.On Saturday, a flight operated by Yemenia landed at the Sanaa International Airport with 136 passengers on board, according to the…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s president said his country will continue talks with the United States over its rapidly advancing nuclear program but will not withdraw from its rights because of U.S. threats.“We are negotiating, and we will negotiate , we are not after war but we do not fear any threat,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a speech to navy officials broadcast by state television Saturday. “It is not like that they think if they threaten us , we will give up our human right and definite right,” Pezeshkian said. “We will not withdraw, we will not easily loose…

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — The world’s largest live music event has reached its glitter-drenched conclusion with the grand final on Saturday of the Eurovision Song Contest, a celebration of music and unity ruffled by discord over Israel’s participation.A trio singing for Sweden about the joys of saunas and a classically trained Austrian countertenor are among those tipped to take the microphone-shaped Eurovision trophy at the contest in Basel, Switzerland. But at the ever-unpredictable event, the prize could just as easily go to powerful singers from France, the Netherlands or Finland — or even an Estonian who sings about Italian coffee.…

Abu Dhabi CNN  —  President Donald Trump flew back Friday from a whirlwind trip to the Middle East – investment deals in hand, a new bond with Syria forged, but still dogged by the familiar conflicts that have long hovered over the region. His four-day trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates revealed a president with old habits – leaning into the fanfare and flattery and trappings of office – and new – a streamlined, goal-oriented agenda heavy on dealmaking and low on the chaos that engulfed his first term. Still, some of the challenges across the…

May 17, 2025, 12:25 AM ETKansas City Current forward Temwa Chawinga became the fastest player in NWSL history to score 25 career regular season goals on Friday when she scored in a 1-0 victory over the Orlando Pride. Chawinga reached the feat in 34 games.”Happy for her, but also, I don’t think Temwa’s going to stop here,” Kansas City head coach Vlatko Andonovski said. “She’s got a lot more to offer.”But Chawinga left the match in the 89th minute due to an injury.Andonovski confirmed that Chawinga’s issue on Friday was related to an unspecified leg injury that the 2024 NWSL…

Jeff CarlisleMay 16, 2025, 11:56 PM ETCloseJeff Carlisle covers MLS and the U.S. national team for ESPN FC.Canada men’s national team manager Jesse Marsch has had discussions with Vancouver Whitecaps defender Tristan Blackmon about possibly representing Canada at international level, sources told ESPN.Blackmon, 28, has spent parts of the last four seasons with the Caps, and has delivered some stellar displays during Vancouver’s run to the final of the Concacaf Champions Cup, in which it will face Cruz Azul in Mexico City on June 1.One source characterized the discussions as exploratory in nature, with Blackmon taking a wait-and-see approach to…

In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because of the ingenuity of a teenager (played by Matthew Broderick), catastrophe is averted. In the first Terminator film, which was released a year later, a supercomputer called “Skynet” decides to exterminate humanity because it’s perceived as a threat to its existence rather than to protect American nuclear weapons.Although these films offered audiences grim scenarios of intelligent machines running amok, they were also prophetic. Artificial intelligence (AI) is…

CNN  —  Russia has sentenced an Australian man to 13 years in a maximum-security prison for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, state prosecutors in the Russian-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine said Friday. Oscar Jenkins, 33, was found guilty by a court in Luhansk of participating in an armed conflict as a mercenary, prosecutors said in a statement, after it ruled he had fought for Ukraine against Russia between March and December last year. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday that her government was “appalled” by the sentencing, calling it a “sham trial” and urged Russia to treat Jenkins in…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian drone hit a bus evacuating civilians from a front-line area in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region Saturday, killing nine people, Ukrainian officials said, hours after Moscow and Kyiv had held their first direct peace talks in years that failed to yield a ceasefire.Seven people were also injured in the attack in Bilopillia, a town around 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Russia’s border, three of them seriously, according to local Gov. Oleh Hryhorov and Ukraine’s national police. The Associated Press couldn’t independently verify the report. There was no comment from Moscow.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the…

La Paz, Bolivia AP  —  Hundreds of supporters of ex-President Evo Morales marched toward Bolivia’s top electoral court on Friday to push for their leftist leader’s candidacy in presidential elections later this year, a rally that descended into street clashes as police tried to clear out a group of demonstrators. The confrontations come in response to a ruling by Bolivia’s Constitutional Court that blocks Morales, the nation’s first Indigenous president who governed from 2006 until his ouster in 2019, from running again in Aug. 17 elections. The turmoil escalates political tensions as Bolivia undergoes its worst economic crisis in four…