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As the last US troops pack up in Iraq, militias signal their weapons will stay
BAGHDAD | Two deadlines are looming for Iraq at the end of the month: the end of a decades-long U.S. military presence and the disarmament of non-state armed groups. The U.S. withdrawal is underway, and officials say the hundreds of troops remaining in northern Iraq will be out by the Sept. 30 deadline. The Iraqi […]
Houthi official says Saudi airstrikes leave 3 dead, and other Mideast developments
A Houthi official said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes struck Yemen, killing three people, including two children, while Human Rights Watch accused the Houthi rebels of possible war crimes with their attacks on commercial vessels. The renewed fighting in Yemen is endangering civilians and threatening shipping through the Red Sea, a route that has become more […]
Trump slams the Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump on Tuesday went after the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterms, saying justices who opposed him were “not the people I interviewed.” His social media missive was just the latest in a long history of Trump assailing justices, particularly those he […]
NATO jets shoot down drone over Lithuania and Russian ship fires flares at Danish helicopter
VILNIUS, Lithuania | NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday, the day after the head of the alliance said strikes close to its territory would only increase its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia’s full-scale invasion. Military officials in Lithuania, a NATO member, said the […]
FBI chief Kash Patel defends loosening of employment standards on bestiality, prostitution
WASHINGTON | FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday defended the bureau’s loosening of hiring requirements regarding prostitution and bestiality, saying the changes were meant to enable victims of those acts to apply for employment without fear of automatic disqualification. The FBI quietly issued guidance this past spring lifting a categorical hiring ban on applicants who […]
Trump says he’s lifting a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey because ‘everybody’s been bugging me’ about it
DOONBEG, Ireland | U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday at the close of a golf tournament in Ireland that he plans to remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey. Trump said during the trophy ceremony for the Irish Open that he had been asked about the issue by everyone, including Irish Prime Minister Micheál […]
Trump agreed to new ethics rules to get a crypto bill across the line. But that might not be enough
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump had been hearing the message loud and clear for weeks about the sweeping cryptocurrency bill being written in the Senate: to get it across the line, he would have to agree to ethics provisions that apply to him, too. First, Trump agreed to a measure that would bar him and […]
Carney pitches Canada to global investors as Trump tries to pull investment south
TORONTO | U.S. President Donald Trump wants factories and investment moving south to the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting he can make billions flow north. About 300 CEOs and senior executives from some of the world’s biggest investment firms will descend on the Four Seasons in Yorkville, a tony Toronto enclave […]
Russians are still fleeing abroad, citing fears of a new mobilization and a loss of freedom
This summer, a 28-year-old digital content marketer packed up his suitcases and duct-taped boxes and fled Russia, leaving behind his family and friends and not knowing when he’ll be able to return. “It is very sad to leave Russia,” he said in the southern city of Krasnodar before heading for the border with Georgia. He […]
NATO chief Rutte vows more support for Ukraine after Russian drone strikes near Polish border
WARSAW, Poland | NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday that Russian drone strikes near the Ukraine-Poland border — one of which hit a train shortly after senior visiting officials had passed through the same station — would drive the military alliance to increase its support for Kyiv, calling Sunday’s attacks a sign of Moscow’s growing […]