WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday he never told his staff to keep his cancer surgery and hospitalization secret from the White House, but acknowledged he should have handled it differently and he apologized for keeping President Joe Biden and others in the dark for weeks. “We did not handle this right and I did not handle …

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani security forces killed 22 insurgents this week in an operation against Baloch separatists, who had launched attacks with suicide bombers and gunmen in retaliation for Pakistani strikes on insurgent hideouts in Iran in January, officials said Thursday. Four security forces and two civilians died when insurgents launched rocket attacks before dawn on Monday on security …

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — El “cono de incertidumbre” producido por el Centro Nacional de Huracanes para pronosticar la ubicación y fuerza de una tormenta tropical será actualizado este año con el fin de incluir predicciones para áreas del interior de Estados Unidos, donde los vientos y las inundaciones son a veces más peligrosos que los daños en las …