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WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — U.S. President Donald Trump named Tom Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, as special presidential envoy to Syria and Iraq, adding Iraq to a regional diplomatic brief that already included Syria. Trump

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near the coast of central Chile late Saturday, shaking parts of the country’s south-central region and prompting official monitoring agencies to assess conditions across several areas. The shallow tremor was recorded near Lebu in the

California authorities kept a state of emergency in place in Orange County after an overheated storage tank containing methyl methacrylate at a GKN Aerospace facility in Garden Grove forced large evacuations and a hazardous materials response. The incident began May

The United States imposed sanctions on nine individuals in Lebanon, including parliamentarians, security officials and an Iranian diplomat, accusing them of enabling Hezbollah to undermine Lebanon’s sovereignty and obstruct disarmament efforts. The U.S. Department of the Treasury said the designations

More than 17,000 people remained under evacuation orders in Southern California after the Sandy Fire burned through dry hills above Simi Valley, threatening neighborhoods in Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles and prompting a large firefighting response across rugged terrain.

WASHINGTON, D.C. / Content Syndication Services / — The United States announced that Lebanon and Israel agreed to a negotiating framework and a 45-day extension of the April 16 cessation of hostilities, following two days of talks in Washington. The

NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for the immediate restoration of navigational rights and freedoms in the Strait of Hormuz, sharpening a message he has repeated in recent days as disruption in one of the world’s most

NEW YORK: The United Nations warned on Monday that time is running out to meet the Sustainable Development Goals as conflict, climate pressures and shrinking development finance push the poorest and most vulnerable countries further off track. In its Financing

WASHINGTON: The World Bank Group has launched Water Forward, a global platform designed to improve water security for more than 1 billion people by 2030, marking a broad push to link policy reform, financing and project delivery in a sector

HOUSTON: NASA’s Artemis II crew aboard the Orion spacecraft set a new record for the farthest distance traveled by humans from Earth on Monday, surpassing the mark set by Apollo 13 in 1970 during a lunar flyby that carried the