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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.
WASHINGTON (SPUTNIK) — Classified US intelligence assessments presented to the White House this week have reportedly concluded that Iran remains capable of withstanding a US naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz
Shell posted its strongest quarterly profit in nearly two years on Thursday, reporting a massive surge in earnings as the expanding Iran war sent oil and gas markets into turmoil and triggered
Jeffrey Epstein’s death inside a federal jail cell in Manhattan has remained one of the most scrutinized custodial deaths in modern American history, spawning years of investigations, political controversy, conspiracy theories and
Jeremiah Manele, the prime minister of the Solomon Islands, was removed from office on Thursday after lawmakers voted against his government in a dramatic parliamentary showdown shaped by corruption allegations, bribery claims,
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum entered office promising continuity, discipline, and moral authority after the turbulent presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. But less than a year into her administration, a political crisis
The global economy is once again confronting the specter of an energy shock, as escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran send oil markets into a state of extreme volatility and threaten the
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived at the Vatican on Thursday for what diplomats described as one of the most politically sensitive meetings between Washington and the Holy See in decades,
The political and financial worlds surrounding Donald Trump are once again colliding in dramatic fashion, this time through an expanding web of cryptocurrency ventures, foreign-linked capital flows, legal disputes, and allegations of
Israeli air raids intensified across Gaza this week, killing the son of senior Hamas political leader and negotiator Khalil al-Hayya, in what Palestinian officials described as another sign that Israel’s continuing military
Jonathan Pollard, the former US naval intelligence analyst whose espionage case triggered one of the deepest intelligence ruptures in modern US-Israel relations, is attempting a political comeback in Israel decades after he
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