Author: News Desk

Arab News says an Israeli airstrike in central Syria killed one Syrian soldier and three pro-Iranian fighters on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.

A wildfire raging through southern California coastal mountains is threatening ranches and rural homes and keeping a major highway shut down.

VOA says It was a shocking terrorist attack, a bombing near the finish line of the 125th running of the famed Boston Marathon in April 2013 that killed three spectators and injured more than 260 others.

BBC Sport says Kenyan world record holder Agnes Tirop has been found stabbed to death at her home in the western town of Iten, with police treating her husband as a suspect.

CNN says California firefighters are battling the Alisal Fire, which has already shut down a section of the iconic Highway 101 and Amtrak lines in Santa Barbara County.

AP News says Kyrie Irving can keep refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He just won’t play for the Brooklyn Nets until he does. The Nets announced Tuesday that Irving would not play or practice with them.

CNN says there is now a clearer picture of what happened to Gabby Petito after a coroner said Tuesday that she died by strangulation. But many questions remain unanswered.

The Independent reports Lord Frost accused Brussels of being “disrespectful” to the UK by enforcing the deal he and Boris Johnson negotiated.

The Daily Mirror has a picture of Boris Johnson painting at an easel while in Marbella.

The Daily Express focuses on the noises coming from the British side over Brexit, quoting Lord Frost as saying the UK may rip up the Brexit agreement.