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Former US president Donald Trump has called his predecessor Joe Biden “insane, or suffering from late-stage dementia” after the latter accused Trump and his diehard right-wing supporters of being a threat to the United States. In a speech on Thursday night against Trump and his Make America Great Again (MAGA) …

The United States has provided Ukraine with so much weaponry to fight Russians that Pentagon stockpiles for some munitions are “uncomfortably low,” according to US military officials. The officials told The Wall Street Journal in a report published on Monday that some officials are particularly concerned about lower levels of …

A military facility housing US occupation forces in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr has come under attack for the second time in a few hours when rockets fired from nearby areas hit the facility. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that a …

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has ordered an update of his country’s wartime operational plans to counter alleged threats from North Korea. On Thursday and the fourth day of the Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) military drills between South Korea and the United States, Yoon ordered the update to address Pyongyang’s …

The United States is expected to announce as early as Wednesday a new security assistance package for Ukraine of about $3 billion, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. The $3 billion weapons assistance package would be the largest that Washington has generated for Ukraine in the six months since Russian …

European Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, says Iran’s answer to the bloc’s proposal on the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was “reasonable.” “There was a proposal from me as coordinator of the negotiations… and a response from Iran …

Amid economic decline, a record number of people have rated their lives as poor The percentage of Americans who say that they are “suffering” rose to 5.6% in a Gallup poll published on Monday. This number has been climbing steadily since last summer and is currently higher than at any …

The Excalibur shells can be fired from M777 howitzers already used by Kiev’s troops

The Republican governor of Indiana, Eric Holcomb, has landed in Taiwan, becoming the latest US official to visit the self-ruled island amid rising tensions between Washington and Beijing. Holcomb announced in a Twitter thread on Sunday that he arrived in Taiwan along with a delegation for a trip to strengthen …

Washington has pushed the EU into cutting ties with Moscow in a bid to achieve global hegemony, a Russian MP has said

A longtime senior executive at Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty on Thursday to helping the company engineer a 15-year tax fraud, in an agreement that will require him to testify about its business practices at an upcoming trial. Allen Weisselberg, 75, the former chief financial officer at the Trump …

China’s ambassador to the UK urges London not to follow Washington’s lead on the issue

Iran has expressed its readiness for swift implementation of a prisoner swap deal with the US while urging Washington to free Iranians imprisoned in the US without tying the issue with irrelevant issues.

The United States Department of States has said that it has received Iran’s response to the EU proposal on the nuclear deal, and it is studying it.

Russia has dismissed media speculations about a possible deployment of nuclear or chemical weapons in Ukraine, saying Moscow has “no need” to use its nuclear arsenal to achieve its goals in the conflict.

The United States imposed sanctions on three Liberian government officials, including President George Weah’s chief of staff, for what it says is their ongoing involvement in public corruption, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Monday. The sanctions target Weah’s Chief of Staff Nathaniel McGill, Liberia’s Chief Prosecutor Sayma Syrenius Cephus, …

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says by Monday midnight, the country will provide the European Union’s coordinator in the talks on the 2015 deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), with its final conclusion on the bloc’s plan for revival of the deal. “We have not offered …

Four people have been confirmed dead after explosions and fire at two residences in Laurel, Nebraska, police said Thursday.

China is set to end cooperation with the US on several key issues including climate change, anti-drug efforts, and military dialogue, as the two sides engage in a war of words over Taipei.

Pyongyang is also seeking to ramp up fissile material production, a UN report seen by the outlet says