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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.
BETHLEHEM — Before sunrise on Friday, thousands of runners gathered in Bethlehem’s Manger Square beneath Palestinian flags and beside streets lined with murals, prison posters, and concrete barriers that have come to define
WASHINGTON/TEHRAN — A fragile ceasefire between Iran and the United States appeared increasingly unstable on Friday after Tehran accused Washington of launching fresh military strikes near the Strait of Hormuz, intensifying fears
Russia’s war in Ukraine is now leaving visible scars far beyond the battlefield. Along Russia’s southern Black Sea coast, repeated Ukrainian drone strikes on oil infrastructure have triggered refinery fires, toxic smoke,
A controversial public exhibition dedicated to the Jeffrey Epstein files has opened quietly in New York’s Tribeca district, bringing renewed attention to one of the most explosive scandals involving political elites, billionaires,
WASHINGTON (SPUTNIK) — Inside one of the Pentagon’s most closely watched military technology exhibitions this year, scientists and engineers unveiled what increasingly appears to be the future shape of US warfare: autonomous
The legal clash between the Pentagon and Senator Mark Kelly has escalated into one of the most closely watched constitutional disputes in Washington, as a federal appeals court signaled deep skepticism over
The abrupt suspension of Donald Trump’s “Project Freedom” operation in the Strait of Hormuz has underscored a fast-changing geopolitical reality in West Asia, where traditional US influence is increasingly being tested
The United States earned nearly $23 billion from oil and petroleum product exports in March alone as the escalating tensions in the Middle East disrupted global energy flows and sent crude prices
MOSCOW (SPUTNIK) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held urgent talks Thursday with Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi as Moscow and Muscat intensified diplomatic efforts to prevent a broader war across the
WASHINGTON (SPUTNIK) — The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sweeping new sanctions on Cuba’s military-linked corporate establishment, targeting the senior leadership of GAESA, the sprawling business conglomerate that dominates much of the
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