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President Trump on Monday signed an executive order issuing “hard-hitting” sanctions against Iran, saying it would deny Iran’s supreme leader access to financial instruments. “Today’s action follows a series of aggressive behaviors by the Iranian […]

Israel will examine U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan in “a fair and open manner”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. Netanyahu made the statement while touring the Jordan Valley – the […]

Angela Merkel has said Germany must rigorously fight rightwing extremism after the murder of a prominent politician. The arrest of a man with suspected far-right sympathies over the shooting this month of Walter Lübcke, a […]

Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee on charges of spying for the US, state media report. Jalal Hajizavar was convicted by a military court after spying equipment and documents were found at his […]

Two more Americans — a man from Kansas and a woman from Pennsylvania — died during vacations in the Dominican Republic, amid a recent spate of tourist deaths in the country, according to a new […]

A toxicologist theorized Friday that the shocking number of sudden deathsstemming from visits to the Dominican Republic could be the result of toxic exposure. Dr. Reynold Panettieri Jr., a Rutgers University vice chancellor, told “Fox […]

President Trump confirmed that his administration had readied a series of strikes against Iran in response for shooting down an unmanned drone in a Friday Twitter thread. “We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last […]

Iran announced on Monday that it would soon exceed the limits on the nuclear fuel it is permitted to possess under the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, which the United States withdrew from last year, leaving […]

While President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been unequivocal in their assertion that Iran was responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, some […]