Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it destroyed a U.S. early warning radar in Bahrain, the first such claim in months. The Guard also said a tanker struck a mine while trying to sail through the Strait of Hormuz, causing an explosion. Neither claim could be independently verified. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard claims strike on US radar in…
ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — The world has failed to slow or stop global warming trends in the past five years because plans weren’t realized and efforts that would have helped were canceled out, a report said Thursday. The grim assessment came during a U.N. climate meeting in Antalya, Turkey, where more government leaders were due…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected accusations that Israel has been delaying the entry of winter supplies into the Gaza Strip as the enclave faces worsening conditions this week, with severe rains flooding makeshift tents. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said a tanker caught fire after hitting a naval mine early on Wednesday in the Strait…
Overnight strikes hit a gas station and an oil facility in Yemen, killing at least one person and wounding nine, residents and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Tuesday. In Iran, a top security official claimed that the Iran war had already “wrecked” the United States, and called on Washington to accept seven demands that…
MOSCOW (AP) — Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s most celebrated independent newspaper, closed its Moscow offices Monday, citing relentless pressure from government officials. It was the last major independent media outlet critical of the Kremlin that remained active in Russia. Others closed or moved their operations abroad after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February…
This U.N. climate summit, called the Conference of the Parties, or COP31, also comes as the war in Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, pushing up global prices of gasoline and oil and myriad products made with them, such as fertilizers and pesticides. The disruption has pushed governments to rethink energy policies, both…
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Poland began two days of national mourning on Sunday, after a 24-year-old man with far-right views drove into a busy central square in Krakow and opened fire, killing six people and wounding 15 others before police shot and wounded him. The attack, which Poland’s defense minister described as an “act of…
Jessie Liu, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, would examine whether officials with the Interior Department and the National Park Service and attorneys with the Department of Justice violated ethics or misled U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes during the course of the case that was initiated in February by the DC Preservation…
Meanwhile, Iran’s foreign minister held discussions with his Egyptian counterpart, part of an ongoing flurry of diplomacy as Iran’s neighbors in the region push for a negotiated settlement rather than a new round of war. Trump discusses de-escalation efforts with Qatar’s emir The telephone call between Trump and Qatar’s Emir Sheik Tamim bin Hamad al…
LONDON (AP) — World leaders who have sparred with the “America first” President Donald Trump greeted the rout of his Republican Party in the U.S. midterm elections with a measure of relief on Wednesday, allowing themselves to hope for a less combative U.S. foreign policy. But that hope was seasoned with expectation that American voters’…