In his longest statement while still not appearing in public, Iran’s new ayatollah said US military bases would have no place in the region, as CENTCOM acknowledged overnight strikes on missile sites and Iranian boats laying mines, and a tanker was struck near Oman. Iran’s Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei declared in his first major public statement…
Despite a weeks-long ceasefire in Iran, most Iranians have been without international internet access since the war began. That means almost the whole country has been disconnected from the world for nearly three months. But that started to change on Monday, when Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an order to reopen international internet access. Reports…
At least 194 people have been killed since the Trump administration started blowing up vessels in September, alleging without providing evidence that they were transporting drugs. WASHINGTON — The U.S. military launched another strike Tuesday on a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one man and leaving two survivors. Video…
Khamenei warns US will no longer be able to use Gulf states as safe haven; Rubio insists deal still possible but is ‘a few days’ away; Trump: Tehran must hand over enriched uranium or destroy it US forces attacked missile sites in southern Iran and boats trying to lay mines on Monday, US Central Command…
LONDON – Tourists, shoppers and office workers on a busy London street on an ordinary weekday found themselves part of a digital identity check as live facial recognition cameras scanned faces against a police watch list. The operation was an example of a technology that the Metropolitan Police say is transforming policing, helping officers arrest…
Greetings from Tyler, Tulsi Gabbard resigning? Apparently she has someone near to her heart to care for. I can’t say I’m not disappointed. I’m sure DJT will find someone suitable, if he hasn’t already. Tulsi’s husband has some rare form of bone cancer and I’m sure she’s needed. Apparently we don’t believe in climate change…
In the moments after he announced that a grand jury had indicted Raúl Castro for the shoot-down of two Brothers to the Rescue planes in 1996, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche was asked the same question over and over again: Will the Trump administration attempt to bring the 94-year-old from Cuba to be prosecuted…
BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19 (Reuters) – Twenty-six more suspected Ebola deaths were recorded in 24 hours in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said on Tuesday, and the head of the World Health Organization expressed deep concern about the outbreak’s spread. The new deaths brought to 131 the fatalities associated with the…
Since before Iran’s 1979 revolution, Western policy toward that country has been shaped less by realities on the ground than by what foreign policymakers found convenient to believe about them. The myths have changed over the decades. The cost of believing them has not. In late 1977, Jimmy Carter famously toasted the Shah’s Iran as…
Good morning. This is Mared Gwyn, writing in the early hours from Brussels. Even earlier this morning, EU lawmakers and diplomats agreed to implement the controversial trade agreement concluded last summer with the US, after hours of late-night talks in Strasbourg. Our trade reporter Peggy Corlin writes that despite the breakthrough, which is set to…