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US sends ship-based Navy fighter jets to a base in the Middle East to...

WASHINGTON: About a dozen F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier have flown to a military base in the Middle East, as part of the Pentagon’s effort to help...

How a student-run uprising led to the ouster of Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister

NEW DELHI — In a video that lit up social media feeds in Bangladesh, jubilant protesters climbed atop a statue of Sheikh Mujib Rahman, the country’s first leader after independence, and beat it with...

Top Russian, Jordanian diplomats call for restraint in Middle East

The two top diplomats also agreed to maintain regular contacts on current issues on the bilateral and international agenda, the ministry noted MOSCOW - Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov of...

Bangladesh Nobel laureate Yunus named chief adviser of interim government

Student leaders had said they wanted Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser to the interim government Parliament was earlier dissolved, clearing the way for the interim government...

US is behind EU recommending Kiev to ban oil transit from Russia — diplomat

The US deep state needs the EU to be completely dependent on its energy resources, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said The EU's recommendation to Ukraine to ban...

US and allies prepare to defend Israel as Netanyahu says it’s already in ‘multi-front...

Israel is already in a “multi-front war” with Iran and its proxies, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Cabinet meeting Sunday, as the United States and allies prepared to defend Israel...

Iraqi PM links regional tensions to Gaza in call with Blinken

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call on Sunday that preventing regional escalation is tied to stopping Israeli “aggression” in the Gaza...

US moves in Middle East are defensive, aimed at reducing tensions -White House

US says move is not a prediction, it is prudent planning The United States is telling its citizens to leave Lebanon and is deploying more...

Biden voices hope Iran will stand down but is uncertain

Hamas said it had begun a “broad consultation process” to choose a new leader three days after the assassination of Haniyeh, who was the face of the group’s international diplomacy

Vietnam’s president is confirmed as the new Communist Party chief — the country’s most...

Vietnamese President To Lam was confirmed Saturday as the new chief of the Communist Party after his predecessor died July 19. Lam will be the general secretary of the Communist...