Category: 1. Palestine

A massive explosion tore through Iran’s largest commercial port on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding nearly 800 others, according to state media.

The blast occurred at Shahid Rajaei Port in southern Iran’s Bandar Abbas city near the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil output passes.

The port’s customs office said in a statement carried by state television that the explosion probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and…

Ian Machado Garry beat Carlos Prates in a highly anticipated UFC welterweight main event in Kansas City.

Ian Machado Garry survived a late scare from Carlos Prates, earning a unanimous decision in a bounce-back effort to cap off the welterweight main event at Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Fight Night in Kansas City.

Garry won on the judges’ scorecards, 48-47, 48-47, 49-46, to end Prates’s unbeaten run in the UFC.

Garry was in control of four of five rounds on Saturday night,…

Point guard Stephen Curry went for a game-high 36 points, and the Golden State Warriors, despite missing injured Jimmy Butler III, rallied past the visiting Houston Rockets 104-93 to take a 2-1 lead in their National Basketball Association (NBA) first-round playoff series in San Francisco.

The Warriors’ Gary Payton II saved nine of his postseason career-high 16 points for a late run, and Buddy Hield bombed five 3-pointers to account for a majority of his 17 points. Rookie Quinten Post,…

These are the key events on day 1,158 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Here is where things stand on Sunday, April 27:

Fighting

• Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed what he said was the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region after Moscow said they had been expelled from the last village they had been holding.

• Russia’s chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has confirmed for the first time that North Korean soldiers have been fighting…