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Iran says oil tanker struck by rockets off Saudi Arabia
Photo: © Shana/AP Photo This photo released by the official news agency of the Iranian Oil Ministry, SHANA, shows Iranian oil tanker Sabiti traveling through the Red Sea, on Oct. 11, 2019....
Overloaded immigration judges have 1 million cases pending despite fast work
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Counterterror police take over UK mall stabbing probe
Photo: © John Greenhalgh/Reuters A police officer points a taser while the other holds a man down outside Arndale shopping center, where several people have been stabbed, in Manchester, England...
Countries unite to oppose Turkey’s Syria operation
Photo: © Kerem Kocalar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images A photo taken from Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, on Oct. 9, shows smoke rising at the site of Ras al-Ay, Syria as Turkish troops, along...
Ecuador’s President Seeks Negotiation; More Protests Planned
Photo: Reuters – Demonstrators clash with riot police during protests after Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies, in Quito,...
Erdogan orders Turkish offensive against northern Syria as Kurds mobilize civilian defense
Photo: © Nazeer Al-Khatib/AFP/Getty Images The United States began pulling back troops along Turkey’s border with northeastern Syria, ahead of a threatened military invasion by Turkey and...
U.S. Army vows more funds, measures to fix housing hazards
Photo : © Reuters/MIKE BLAKE FILE PHOTO: Recently constructed military housing is shown on base at Camp Pendleton...
Trump administration expected to announce exit from ‘Open Skies’ treaty
Photo: © ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/AFP via Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump....
Time to Stand with Hong Kong
By Alan W. Dowd OCTOBER 2019—Hong Kong has been paralyzed by protests throughout 2019. The protests began when a bill was introduced in Hong Kong’s pro-PRC legislative body that would allow ex...
Chinese Envoy Heading to US to Prepare for New Round of Trade Talks
Photo: FILE – Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, right, sits with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, second from left, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, left, before the start of...
ISIS leader Baghdadi urges followers to continue attacks, storm prisons in purported new recording
Photo: AFP/Getty Images/AFP/Getty Images In this image taken from video released April 29, 2019, by al-Furqan media, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears in an undisclosed location....
Taliban attacks kill 48, Afghan leader unhurt as bomber targets rally
Photo: © OMAR SOBHANI/Newscom/Reuters Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a event with media in Kabul, March 21, 2015....