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Hundreds of people tried to storm the US-Mexico border on Sunday, after a rumor that migrants would be allowed to cross into the United States. Around noon, a large crowd of mainly Venezuelans began to gather near the entrance of a bridge connecting Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez to El Paso, Texas …

Regulators shut down Signature Bank after its shares plunged in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure New York-based Signature Bank was shut down by US regulators on Sunday, becoming the third failure in the country’s banking industry in less than a week. According to a joint statement from the …

Iraq recovered an artifact, dating back nearly 2,700 years, which is believed to have been stolen during the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced in a statement that it returned the piece to the Iraqi authorities, which is believed to have been …

Iran and the United States have reached an agreement to exchange prisoners, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told state TV on Sunday, adding that he hoped the exchange would take place soon. “Regarding the issue of prisoner swaps between Iran and the US we have reached an agreement in the …

Former US Vice President Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump on Saturday, saying that history will hold him accountable for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. Pence was in the Capitol when thousands of Trump …

A top military adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a post-US era has started in the Persian Gulf region in the wake of a China-brokered deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic ties. Speaking on Sunday, Major General Yahya …

The interests of several countries, not just Russia, are driving the hostilities, the pontiff said Russia is not the only “empire” whose interests are driving the conflict in Ukraine, Pope Francis said in an interview with Swiss television RSI, set to be released on Sunday. Excerpts from the interview were …

A fire broke out Friday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, leading to the evacuation of workers as firefighters responded to the call, according to the US Secret Service. D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services said at 8 a.m. on Twitter that a defective cooling …

Ukraine and Russia face obstacles to peace talks, but pressure to negotiate will inevitably increase. More than a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war appears to have reached a deadlock. Since the liberation of Kherson by Ukrainian forces last November, both sides have been engaged in positional …

The Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in the Iraqi parliament says the country’s resistance and political groups agree on the need to expel all American troops, noting that this is a “definitive” and “national” decision rather than a factional one. “Efforts continue at the public and political levels to wrap up the …

The United States and China are hurtling toward inevitable “confrontation and conflict” unless Washington changes course, Beijing’s new foreign minister warned Tuesday. The fiery comments from Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang underlined the deepening tensions between the world’s two largest economies in the wake of the surveillance balloon saga and …

Chinese military could this year carry out a “sudden entry” into areas close to the island, Taipei’s defense minister has said. Taiwan should be on the lookout for the Chinese military’s possible actions in areas adjacent to the self-governing island during 2023, its Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told lawmakers on …

A group of 52 lawmakers has lodged a motion with the Iraqi parliament’s presidium to summon Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein over unwarranted “intervention” of US Ambassador Alina Romanowski in the internal affairs of the country, an official correspondence read on Sunday. Several Iraqi factions have voiced criticism over the recent …

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Monday that the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut was of more symbolic than operational importance, and its fall would not necessarily mean that Moscow had regained the initiative in the war. The battle for Bakhmut has raged for seven months. A Russian victory …

Four American citizens were shot at and kidnapped by armed men after driving across the U.S. border into northeastern Mexico, the FBI said Sunday. The Americans crossed into Matamoros, in Tamaulipas state, on Friday, driving a white minivan with North Carolina license plates, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said …

Syria’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned the unannounced visit of the top US military officer to a US base in northeast Syria as “illegal” and a “flagrant violation” of the country’s sovereignty, state news agency SANA reported. Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the …

Two pilots from Ukraine have arrived at a military base in Arizona, officials told the broadcaster The US has invited Ukrainian pilots to a military base in Tucson, Arizona to establish how long it’ll take to train them to fly Western fighter jets, including F-16s, unnamed officials told NBC. Two …

The ex-US leader claims he is the only candidate that can prevent World War III. President Joe Biden is leading the United States “into oblivion,” Donald Trump told the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Saturday, promising to stop wasting US taxpayer money on “stupid” foreign wars as he …

Between 20 and 30 cars have gone off the tracks, officials say A Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield, Ohio in the US on Saturday. The incident comes a month after another train operated by the same company came off the tracks in East Palestine, Ohio, causing a major …

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says the United States is in no position to advocate human rights or democracy, recounting the White House’s record of supporting political systems based on institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination, namely South Africa’s dismantled apartheid regime and the Tel Aviv regime. Nasser Kan’ani …