BAGHDAD — Iraq will send delegations to Washington and Tehran to help “halt tension” amid fears of a confrontation between the United States and Iran in the Middle East, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials who briefed Congress about Iran on Tuesday sought to convince lawmakers that President Donald Trump’s administration wants to deter Tehran’s aggression, not attack the Islamic republic, members of Congress said.
LONDON — Iran urged the United States on Monday to address the Islamic Republic with respect, not threats of war, a day after President Donald Trump stoked concerns about a potential U.S.-Iran conflict.
While allegations of Russian cyber warfare influencing the 2016 election have received no shortage of attention, one New York Times correspondent believes we should be placing more focus on the cyber threats that are to come.
LONDON — Angry Britons are fighting against hate speech and unpopular far-right campaigners with an unlikely weapon: the milkshake.
BEIJING/WASHINGTON — China accused the United States on Monday of harboring “extravagant expectations” for a trade deal, underlining the gulf between the two sides as U.S. action against China’s technology giant Huawei began hitting the global tech sector.
A rocket was fired Sunday into the Iraqi capital’s heavily-fortified Green Zone.
SHANGHAI — China’s senior diplomat Wang Yi told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday that recent U.S. words and actions had harmed the interests of China and its enterprises, and that Washington should show restraint, China’s foreign ministry said.
DUBAI — Iran’s top diplomat dismissed the possibility of war erupting in the region at a time of escalating confrontation with the United States, saying Tehran did not want conflict and no country had the “illusion it can confront Iran.”
Trump seeks extra $1.6 billion in NASA spending to return to moon by 2024
The top Russian and American diplomats pledged to seek better relations and ease tensions, even as they diverged sharply on issues ranging from Iran and Venezuela to alleged Kremlin meddling in U.S. elections.
RIYADH/DUBAI — Saudi Arabia said armed drones struck two of its oil pumping stations on Tuesday, two days after the sabotage of oil tankers near the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S. military said it was braced for “possibly imminent threats to U.S. forces in Iraq” from Iran-backed forces.
Iran says it has sentenced Iranian woman to 10 years for spying for UK
STOCKHOLM — Sweden reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday and will seek to extradite him from Britain, a potential setback to efforts by the United States to put him on trial over a huge release of secret documents.
Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso.
The trade war between the world’s top two economies escalated.
DUBAI -- Four commercial vessels were targeted by "sabotage operations" near the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates without causing casualties, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, without giving details of the nature of the sabotage.
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said the U.S. military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now represents a target, ISNA reports.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced Wednesday that his country was taking steps to halt its compliance with elements of a landmark nuclear accord, in a move that appeared certain to aggravate tensions with the United States.
LOS ANGELES — Archie, the red-headed comic book character? Or Archie Bunker, American television’s bad-tempered bigot from the 1970s?
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it had canceled a planned port visit in Croatia for a Navy aircraft carrier as its deployment to the Middle East has been expedited in response to “recent and clear indications” that Iran was preparing to attack U.S. troops in the region.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military said on Tuesday that B-52 bombers will be part of additional forces being sent to the Middle East to counter what the Trump administration says are “clear indications” of threats from Iran to U.S. forces there.
DAR ES SALAAM — Tanzania wants to boost tourist numbers by putting a cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, and is in talks about the project with a Chinese and a Western company.
WASHINGTON — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Monday that he had approved sending a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East because of indications of a “credible threat by Iranian regime forces.”
Jessica Anderson trained for the London marathon with a goal: she wanted to be the fastest female to complete the race dressed as a nurse.
WINDSOR, England — Fans celebrated the arrival of the latest British royal, a son born to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, by taking to the streets on Monday outside the royal castle in Windsor and Buckingham Palace in London.
VINCI, Italy — An Italian museum says it plans to carry out DNA tests on a lock of hair it believes might have belonged to the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, who died 500 years ago this month.
Animal lovers in Thailand were thrown into confusion over whether a Siamese cat presented to the newly crowned Thai king was a living feline or not.
“I’m glad to see the people celebrate us in such a manner today, and I’m deeply grateful to you,” the Emperor said in expressing his gratitude to the public.
Rockets and missiles from Gaza killed four civilians in Israel, while Israeli strikes killed 19 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians.
North Korea fired several “unidentified short-range projectiles” into the sea off its east coast.
Gazans fled Israeli strikes, and air-raid sirens sent Israelis running to shelters as interceptor missiles blew up Palestinian rockets in the sky.
LONDON — Meghan Markle will give birth by Monday night to a little girl to be named Diana — at least that’s what the bets placed by punters suggest.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is taking his first major foreign policy stance since officially announcing his candidacy for President by calling for the United States to end its assistance to Saudi Arabia for its war in Yemen. This aligns him with Senate Democrats and against President Don…
MOGOSOAIA, Romania — “Repeat after me! To be together with who I want,” a family of Romanian witches chant via a video call to a client in India paying for a love spell.
One day after an attempt to spark a military uprising fell flat, Venezuela’s opposition was at it again Wednesday, making another desperate effort to rally residents to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
OSLO — A white beluga whale is loitering off the coast of northern Norway, and that is starting to worry Norwegians, who are afraid it might not be able to fend for itself. Also, it might be a spy.
N. Korea warns of ‘undesired’ outcome if no change in U.S. nuclear stance
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