Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed “fabricated” reports in American media of secret “backchannel” negotiations between the U.S. government and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Indonesia celebrated its independence day in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in the east and rumblings of unrest in the west.
A federal judge has blocked the Department of Homeland Security from reviewing state databases of truck drivers as it seeks to remove illegal migrants from the trucking industry.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed that at least 2,325 people have died of Ebola infections.
Cuba’s communist regime allegedly attempted to kidnap a group of Cuban athletes who recently defected in the Dominican Republic, the athletes denounced to 14 y Medio over the weekend.
Iranian citizens are telling foreign media outlets that survival is growing difficult as the price of food and other basic commodities soars by 400% under pressure from the U.S. blockade, even as the regime in Tehran insists the food situation is under control.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Flávio Bolsonaro kicked off their respective campaigns Sunday ahead of the upcoming October elections.
President Donald Trump reportedly told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst on Monday that he was prepared to order airstrikes against Oman if it interferes with resolution of the Iran conflict.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping celebrated the life of communist predecessor Jiang Zemin at a ceremony marking the latter’s would-be 100th birthday on Monday, noting that Jiang, as the leader who took over China following the Tiananmen Square massacre, “implemented the correct decisions” to crush anti-communist dissent.
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday night that he had ordered Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to “substantially reduce” the scale of “Ulchi Freedom Shield,” joint military exercises with South Korea that take place annually and are expected to begin on Monday.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents teamed up with the Mexican Navy to seize nearly seven tons of cocaine during operations in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chiapas, Mexico. Officials estimate the street value of the drugs to be more than $120 million (USD).
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.
Footage shows the moment local authorities encountered a Marine pilot who ejected from his F/A-18 fighter jet before it crashed into a mountainside in Washington.
A large-scale Ukrainian attack struck industrial infrastructure in Russia’s southwestern Samara region Saturday, a Russian official said.
President Vladimir Putin threatened retaliation against British and French ‘pirates’ over the seizure of Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tankers, saying his navy was ready to start capturing European ships in return.
Iranian officials and state media mocked President Donald Trump this week for switching planes during his trip to Turkey last month because the Secret Service was concerned about an assassination threat from Iran.
Former President Gustavo Petro confirmed that he intends to travel out of Colombia after getting the required Congressional authorization.
A senior Taliban official named Habibur Rahman Mansur was killed on Thursday during a battle between Taliban forces and a “dissident commander” in northern Afghanistan.
Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi boasted in an interview with the BBC this week that the terrorist organization, which will mark five years since seizing power in Afghanistan on Saturday, has expanded its diplomatic outreach to include over 40 embassies and consulates around the world.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Thursday that the United States can maintain its blockade of Iran “indefinitely,” while economists said the Iranian economy is rapidly approaching the point of “severe collapse” under the pressure.
The government of the Dominican Republic on Thursday expelled nine officials from the Cuban embassy in Santo Domingo.
The situation in western Colombia four days after a massive 7.4 earthquake hit on Monday has become increasingly dire as untold numbers of deceased victims remain trapped under rubble, their bodies decaying and threatening to cause a public health crisis.
The House Select Committee on China and House Education and Workforce Committee on Thursday released a report detailing Harvard University’s troubling relationship with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including entities linked to human rights abuses.
The Korean Football Association (KFA), the organization that manages the South Korean national soccer team, apologized this week for “inappropriate conduct” and various controversies” after being accused of paying for “sexual entertainment” for foreign referees.
The United Nations agency for women’s rights observed the fifth anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan by noting that women have been “systematically stripped of their rights” and effectively “erased from public life” by the Islamist regime.
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence claimed on Wednesday that its operatives prevented “mercenaries for the American-Zionist enemy” from invading the southern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, thwarting a plot to “destabilize the province and strike at economic infrastructure in the south.”
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on Monday announced a collaboration with Iran on the “exploration and processing of rare earth elements,” presented as a series of workshops that will be mostly funded by China.
Authorities in Colombia continue to struggle to meet the needs of the tens of thousands estimated to have been injured, displaced, or otherwise affected by the devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake this week, telling local media on Thursday that hospitals near the epicenter are totally overwhelmed and city streets are in a state of “total chaos.
Abelardo de la Espriella declared a state of economic emergency in Colombia to address the aftermath of this week’s earthquake.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced on Wednesday that Colombia has officially joined the “Shield of the Americas” regional counter-cartel coalition.
A massive international salvage operation is underway to contain the oil spill from a tanker that ran aground off Oman.
The Turkish Defense Ministry revealed new details on Thursday of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a pact Ankara signed with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that now requires each country to treat an attack against one as an attack against all.
Four members of the terrorist organization known as Cartel Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) are facing federal charges in the United States in connection with the purchase of RPGs, machine guns, mortars, and other weapons from the Czech Republic, as well as the production and smuggling of drugs into the United States.
The Iranian Islamist regime sent its top agriculture official, Agriculture Minister Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh, to the capital of Afghanistan on Wednesday to discuss expanding economic ties with the ruling Taliban regime there.
Aug. 12 (UPI) — An Apache attack helicopter based at Fort Hood crashed into a field in Salado, Texas, on Wednesday afternoon, bursting into flames and killing the two soldiers on board, the U.S. Army said.
A study published by researchers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Belgium, and several other countries on Monday found that the current outbreak of the rare Ebola Bundibugyo strain probably began with transmission from animals to humans.
The South African Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it has written to the governments of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria to request reimbursement for the $18 million cost of repatriating thousands of illegal migrants.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen claimed responsibility for a murderous “double tap” strike on a ship in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Tuesday, using three ballistic missiles to set the ship on fire — and then launching another missile in a deliberate attack on rescue teams, killing at least six people.
Colombian rescue workers on Tuesday night successfully rescued a woman who spent 36 hours trapped under the rubble of a collapsed building after Monday’s devastating earthquake.
Venezuela’s socialist regime restored consular ties with the State of Israel, ending a 17-year-old rupture ordered by Hugo Chávez.
