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QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say gunmen have killed seven laborers and wounded an eighth in the country’s southwest. The workers were all from the same town in Punjab, which is in Pakistan’s east. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday’s assault, but separatists in Balochistan have often killed workers and others

BOSTON (AP) — The CEO of a hospital operator that filed for bankruptcy protection in May will step down after failing to testify before a U.S. Senate panel. Steward Health Care CEO Ralph de la Torre has overseen a network of some 30 hospitals around the country. The Texas-based company’s troubled recent history has drawn

AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Our children are told when they’re little: Play nicely. Work together. Don’t hit. Use your words. It’s called ‘multilateralism,’ and the principle has remained the same at the United Nations for four generations. Unite to get more done and find outcomes all can endorse. At the U.N. General

NEW YORK (AP) — The union representing Boeing factory workers who are currently on strike in the Pacific Northwest says contract talks “broke off” with the company after another bargaining session. A regional district of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said late Friday that Boeing “would not engage substantively” on a demand

Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Floodwaters pushed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene left North Carolina’s largest mountain city isolated Saturday by damaged roads and a lack of power and cellphone service, part of a swath of destruction across southern Appalachia that left an unknown number dead and countless worried relatives unable to reach

AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX launched a rescue mission for the two stuck astronauts at the International Space Station on Saturday, sending up a downsized crew to bring them home but not until next year. The capsule rocketed into orbit to fetch the test pilots whose Boeing spacecraft returned to Earth

Associated Press REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice” for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday. The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, was killed in an Israeli

Associated Press Russia’s top diplomat warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power.” Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine. Lavrov’s speech was packed with condemnations of what Moscow sees as Western

Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Hundreds of people have marched in Paris in support of the right to abortion for women across the world. Saturday’s march was organized by civil society groups to mark International Safe Abortion Day. Participants also called for greater and easier access to abortion in France, denouncing budget cuts, staff reductions

AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — WeightWatchers is shaking up its leadership. WW International announced Friday that CEO Sima Sistani would leave her role effective immediately. Tara Comonte, a WeightWatchers board member and former Shake Shack executive, was made interim chief executive. The New York-based weight loss company didn’t reveal the reasons behind the

Associated Press A large law enforcement presence has turned out in Worcester to honor a state police recruit who died after becoming unresponsive during a training exercise. Twenty-five-year-old Enrique Delgado-Garcia died at a hospital on Sept. 13 a day after becoming unresponsive during a defensive tactics exercise in a boxing ring and suffering what authorities

Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Smoke was still rising from Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday morning, visible to many of the families who had fled their homes there the night before to escape Israel’s massive bombardment. It had been a harrowing night — getting out amid earthshaking explosions, looking in vain for space in one of

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A jury has ruled in favor of three women who alleged they were sexually abused while patients at a Virginia children’s hospital, awarding them a total of $300 million in damages. WTVR-TV reports that the jury in Richmond awarded each woman $60 million in compensatory damages and $40 million in punitive

Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Three days before his communist government turns 75, China’s foreign minister is warning fellow leaders against an “expansion of the battlefield” in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Wang Yi says the Beijing government is committed to shuttle diplomacy and efforts to push the conflict toward its end. He warns other

PRAGUE (AP) — The main Czech opposition group led by former populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis has won an election for a third of the seats in the Senate. The ruling coalition still retained a majority in the house. Babis’ ANO, or YES in English, has won eight of the 27 seats up for grabs in

Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A prominent general in Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. That’s according to Iranian media reports Saturday. The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war