World & Nation
Lebanon wracked by fresh wave of explosions of booby-trapped communication devices believed to be part of an electronic sabotage campaign against Hezbollah.
Sept. 18, 2024
Thousands of people were wounded across Lebanon in what was thought to be a cyberattack causing pagers carried by Hezbollah members to explode.
Sept. 17, 2024
Netanyahu says there will be ‘heavy price’ for missile attack claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Sirens sounded at Israel’s main airport.
Sept. 15, 2024
Gold Apollo, a wireless communications device manufacturer in Taiwan, said it did not make the pagers used in the Lebanon explosion attack.
Israel says that halting Hezbollah’s attacks in the country’s north to allow its residents to return to their homes there is now an official war goal as it considers a wider military operation in Lebanon.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels set off explosions on a Red Sea vessel carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil.
Aug. 30, 2024
Saudi sex tourists are buying weeklong marriages to young women in Indonesia. Though officially illegal, the practice is an economic lifeline for villages. For the women, it’s ‘torture.’
Sept. 11, 2024
California
A 2006 engineering report found seismic risks at Men’s Central Jail, and Los Angeles County has no plans to fix them.
Aug. 27, 2024
The Israeli military launched what it called preemptive strikes in Lebanon against the militant group Hezbollah early Sunday. Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.
Aug. 25, 2024
Technology and the Internet
The bidding war for Fuhu, the maker of children’s tablets that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in early December, has begun.
Dec. 31, 2015