An attack targeting the King Fahd International Airport in eastern Saudi Arabia's Dammam killed a Saudi citizen and an Indian national and injured eight others Wednesday evening, the kingdom's civil aviation authority said.
The authority said in a statement that injuries from the attack ranged from "minor to serious" and that material damage to the airport was also being assessed.
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President Bill Clinton famously said he could feel voters' pain over the economy. But these days, when it comes to questions about high prices, President Donald Trump insists that the pain is his.
"They hit me with affordability, and that's the first time I ever heard the word used," he complained in Nebraska earlier this month.
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Losing more ground in the fight against climate change, humanity is heading for a hotter world than experts projected last year — and the United States is a big reason for that, a new United Nations report says.
If all the countries do what they promise to reduce heat-trapping emissions, Earth will likely still warm another 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above current temperatures, according to Wednesday's update of climate calculations by the United Nations Environment Programme. That's about two-tenths of a degree Fahrenheit (0.1 degrees Celsius) more than last year's projections by the same science team.
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No nation does mass protests quite like France.
When the French fight high fuel taxes, they don yellow vests and march. When angry farmers want better pay, hundreds of them drive tractors down the Champs-Élysées. And when museum workers want better tourist management, they strike and shut down the Louvre.
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Russia prides itself on its digital advances — from an extensive e-commerce services sector to ambitious plans for developing artificial intelligence.
But now, some of the key data centers at the heart of its technical prowess have been knocked out by Ukrainian drone attacks in the 4 1/2-year-old full-scale invasion, suffering damage that could take a long time to repair.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has secured the delivery of an additional 200,000 tons of diesel per month from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain during a tour of the Gulf, the French presidency said on Tuesday.
He obtained commitments for around 100,000 tons per month from the Emirates, while an additional 100,000 tons monthly will be secured during the stop in Bahrain, the Elysee Palace said.
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The Champions League showpiece between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona will go ahead as planned on Tuesday in Paris, the French interior minister confirmed despite violent weekend protests.
Many French citizens have been left shocked by the images of violence that have drawn worldwide attention and highlighted the country's tense social climate. On Monday, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said he instructed prefects to impose "very limited" and "localized" curfews in cities to prevent more rioting and looting.
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UEFA has given FIFA a Nov. 2 deadline to release documents relating to Gianni Infantino 's aborted attempts at a secretive investment plan for the World Cup and other governance issues.
The latest move in a power struggle between the two governing bodies came in the week after UEFA's European delegates were disappointed by what they perceived as a lack of clarity by FIFA president Infantino over the issues at a FIFA council meeting last week.
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Walking out on the Portugal camp earned Cristiano Ronaldo a 30-day suspension and 255 euros ($285) fine from the national federation.
The Portuguese Football Federation had provisionally suspended Ronaldo and on Monday called the punishment "adequate and sufficient."
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U.S. futures are mostly lower as artificial-intelligence stocks come under pressure again and oil prices rose amid sporadic fighting in the Middle East.
Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.1% on Tuesday, while those for the Nasdaq declined 0.5%. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2%.
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