The U.S. military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias on Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend, officials told The Associated Press.
A U.S. federal judge in Washington formally postponed Donald Trump's March trial on charges of plotting to overturn the 2020 election as a key legal appeal from the former president continues to work its way through the courts.
Liquid petroleum gas cylinders on a truck exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, killing at least three people and injuring 280 others, officials said Friday. The death toll was expected to rise.
A judge on Friday acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused to follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year.
