Tag: World news
Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters...
Trump sets Sunday deadline for Hamas to agree to a deal for ending the war in Gaza
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said that Hamas must agree to a proposed peace deal for Gaza by 6 p.m. ET on Sunday and...
Putin praises Trump but warns that supplies of US long-range missile to Ukraine will badly hurt ties
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and...
US will increase staffing at embassies and consulates to handle visas for World Cup fans
WASHINGTON – The State Department will increase staffing at certain U.S. embassies and consulates to accommodate an expected major jump in visa applications from...
The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings...
A freed political prisoner refuses to be deported from Belarus and promptly vanishes
TALLINN – Scores of political prisoners pardoned by the authoritarian leader of Belarus sat on a bus waiting to cross the border with Lithuania...
No. 2 US diplomat meets much-prosecuted West African leader after visa restrictions were eased
WASHINGTON – U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with the heavily prosecuted vice president of Equatorial Guinea in Washington after the...
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
WELLINGTON – On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that...
Moldova’s pro-EU party wins parliamentary election fraught with Russian interference claims
CHISINAU – Moldova’s pro-Western governing party won a clear parliamentary majority, defeating pro-Russian groups in an election that was widely viewed as a stark...
Netanyahu and Trump are set to meet as pressure mounts to end war in Gaza
Days after his defiant speech at the United Nations rejecting demands to end the war in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set...