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2 days ago
The United States shot down a drone fired by Yemen's Huthi rebels toward the Red Sea and destroyed more of their weaponry on Saturday, its military said.
2 days ago
US President Joe Biden joked about Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner on Saturday -- before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November's election.
2 days ago
Donald Trump told a rally in Ohio on Saturday that November's presidential election will be the "most important date" in US history, painting his campaign for the White House as a turning point for the country.
2 days ago
US President Joe Biden joked about Donald Trump and his own age at an annual media dinner on Saturday -- before unloading deadly serious criticisms of his rival in November's election. "One candidate's too old and mentally unfit to be president," the 81-year-old Democrat quipped at the Gridiron Club in Washington. "The other guy's me."…
3 days ago
Jared Kushner, son-in-law to former US president Donald Trump, announced Saturday plans to invest in luxury real estate in Serbia and Albania, including the old Yugoslav army headquarters site.
14 Mar
President Joe Biden needled "loser" Donald Trump Wednesday, in his first battleground campaign stop since the two rivals secured their parties' nominations for what promises to be one of the most rancorous elections in US history.
13 Mar
United States President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, are set for an election rematch in November after clinching their respective parties’ nominations.
13 Mar
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lauded Moscow's nuclear arsenal and warned that he was ready to deploy the weapons if Russia's sovereignty was threatened. The Kremlin has touted its nuclear prowess throughout its two-year offensive in Ukraine, last month warning Western countries there was a "real" risk of nuclear catastrophe if they escalated the conflict.…
13 Mar
Joe Biden and rival Donald Trump each won enough delegates Tuesday to clinch their party nominations in the 2024 presidential race, networks projected, all but assuring a rematch and setting up one of the longest election campaigns in US history.
12 Mar
A well-known Mexican journalist and TV news host has gone missing in Guadalajara, the local governor and his family said Monday night. "A few moments ago, they informed me that journalist Jaime Barrera had not gone to his news program and that since midday his family had not been able to locate him," Enrique Alfaro,…
12 Mar
The US Treasury has levied sanctions on 16 individuals and entities across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, accusing them of laundering money for the Al-Shabaab Islamist militant group. The Treasury said the "expansive business network" was part of an international fundraising and money-laundering web for the Al-Qaeda-linked group operating in Somalia and…
12 Mar
Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Romania over UK sex offence charges, police said on Tuesday. Romanian authorities said in a statement that they executed "two European arrest warrants issued by the UK judicial authorities for the committing of sexual offences, of exploitation of persons on the territory of…
12 Mar
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign and make way for a transitional authority, the president of Guyana said Monday after a regional meeting on a gang uprising that has plunged Haiti into violent chaos. Henry, an unelected leader who took power right before Haiti's president was assassinated in 2021, was under acute…
11 Mar
A German court handed an American man a life sentence Monday for raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year.
10 Mar
US President Joe Biden and presumptive White House challenger Donald Trump traded barbs Saturday on the key topics of age and immigration, as they targeted the battleground state of Georgia.
9 Mar
US and allied forces shot down 15 one-way attack drones fired by Iran-backed Yemeni rebels into the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on Saturday, the US military said.
9 Mar
Two soldiers and a US border agent died in a helicopter crash on Friday near the US-Mexico border, the US military said.
6 Mar
New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Wednesday she would deploy the state's National Guard troops and police onto the New York City subway after upticks in violent incidents on the network serving the United States' largest metropolis.
6 Mar
Donald Trump marched Wednesday towards an unprecedented rematch against President Joe Biden in November as his final Republican rival Nikki Haley looked set to throw in the towel after a thumping defeat in the "Super Tuesday" primaries.

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