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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
Saudi Aramco has issued one of the starkest warnings yet about the state of the global energy market, declaring that nearly 880 million barrels of liquid hydrocarbons have effectively vanished from global
Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, the former police chief who became the public face of Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, ran through the halls of the Philippine Senate on Monday as investigators
Australia’s stock market slid sharply on Monday after biotech heavyweight CSL plunged in one of the most dramatic collapses in modern ASX history, wiping nearly A$10 billion from its market value and
The ceasefire that halted weeks of open warfare between the United States and Iran is showing signs of collapse after Tehran accused the Trump administration of demanding what Iranian officials described as
A silent rupture is unfolding across North America’s longest border. For decades, Canadians crossed into the United States with little hesitation. They flew to Las Vegas for weekends, spent winters in Florida,
Senator Jon Ossoff is betting that anger toward political corruption, elite influence, and billionaire power may prove stronger than partisan loyalty in one of the most consequential Senate races in the United
Donald Trump’s blunt rejection of Iran’s latest proposal to end the war sent oil markets sharply higher on Monday and reignited fears that the global economy is drifting toward a prolonged energy
Wall Street struggled for direction Monday as investors weighed surging oil prices, renewed Iran tensions and another explosive rally in artificial intelligence-linked semiconductor stocks that continued pushing the Nasdaq toward record territory.
The relationship between Russia and Japan has entered what Moscow now describes as an “Ice Age,” marking one of the lowest points in bilateral ties since the end of World War II
The Kremlin has signaled that another round of high-level contacts between Moscow and Washington may be imminent, with senior Russian officials confirming that US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected
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