US Senator Lindsey Graham called on Sunday for renewed military action against Hamas and Hezbollah if they fail to disarm and accused the Palestinian Islamist group of consolidating its power in Gaza. The Republican politician, on a visit to Israel...
A huge electricity outage hit San Francisco on Saturday, leaving 130,000 residents without power for several hours at its peak, with the city’s main provider saying all services would return overnight. Pacific Gas & Electric Company said...
The United States has stopped and boarded an oil tanker off Venezuela, the latest salvo in a pressure campaign against Caracas, US media reported Saturday. It was the second time in two weeks that US forces have interdicted such a vessel, and comes...
US President Donald Trump has nominated a new head of US forces in Latin America, according to a statement Friday, after an admiral stepped down from the role early. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth announced in the statement that Trump had appointed...
Iran has put to death a man accused of spying for Israel, the latest execution since a 12-day June war between the archenemies, the judiciary’s press agency announced Saturday. “The death sentence for Aghil Keshavarz, found guilty of...
Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Saturday he was heading to Miami, where another round of talks to settle the Ukraine war was set to take place. “On the way to Miami,” Dmitriev wrote in an X post, adding a pigeon emoji and attaching...
A pilot refused to take off and barricaded himself in the cockpit of a plane in Mexico City on Friday, staging what he said was a protest over unpaid wages, local media reported. “This plane isn’t leaving until they pay us what they owe...
Attacks at two metro station in Taipei on Friday injured at least eight people, including three who suffered cardiac arrest, Taiwan’s Premier Cho Jung-tai said. Cho said a suspect in the attacks, which involved smoke bombs and stabbing, had...
The US Justice Department will release “several hundred thousand documents” on Friday from the investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, with more files to be published over...
There cannot be peace in Gaza unless Hamas disarms and no longer poses a threat to Israel, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. “If Hamas is ever in a position in the future that they can threaten or attack Israel, you’re...
Swedish police said Friday they would not open an investigation into a criminal complaint filed by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against the Nobel Foundation over the Peace Prize awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he could order his forces to halt long-range missile and drone strikes on Ukraine on voting day, if Kyiv holds a presidential election that Moscow and Washington are pushing for. “We are ready to...
Poland’s nationalist President Karol Nawrocki told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that Ukrainians failed to appreciate his country’s help for them as they fight off Russia’s invasion. The accusation, made...
President Vladimir Putin said Friday Russia would not attack other countries on the condition it was treated “with respect”, dismissing concerns that Moscow poses a security threat to NATO’s eastern flank states. “You said:...
The Trump administration has appealed a court order that largely restored funding it had cut from Harvard University for allegedly tolerating antisemitism and harboring liberal bias. Harvard has been at the forefront of Donald Trump’s campaign...
