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While the American President’s time is running out, Western pundits and analysts are assessing the results of Obama’s foreign policy. Turning the spotlight on his strategic “errors,” they blame Barack Obama for Russia’s recent geopolitical achievement. With President Barack Obama’s term nearing its end, media […]

The Israeli authorities have ordered a Palestinian school east of Jerusalem to be demolished as they say it was built without permission, despite coming under pressure from the EU and the UN for Israel to stop destroying Palestinian buildings. The primary school is located in […]

GENEVA: Frustrated and unhappy, the U.N. envoy for Syria abruptly cut short a Thursday meeting of its humanitarian task force because aid convoys to besieged cities and towns have been impeded this month amid a surge in fighting in the country’s 5-1/2-year civil war. Staffan […]

Russia said on Thursday it would support a 48-hour ceasefire in Aleppo, a move the U.N. Syria envoy said would allow aid to reach besieged areas soon, as long as all sides respect the temporary truce. As pictures of a dazed child pulled from the […]

BATON ROUGE — Five days into this disaster, adrenaline is giving way to exhaustion and — for many of those who left their homes amid rising water — a constant, churning anxiety about the future. Thousands are still holed up in shelters or at friends’ […]

Artillery drills on the North Korean border constitute a stark escalation in South Korea’s military practice, causing concern that Pyongyang may react amid heightened provocation. On Thursday, South Korea’s army conducted its largest-ever artillery drills near the tense border with North Korea, risking an escalation […]

American explorers have discovered the intact remains of a unique trade vessel that sank in a violent storm in the Great Lakes over 200 years ago. The depot ship HMS FORTH transferring a practice torpedo to the submarine P311 © Wikipedia/ Echoes of War: British […]

The fire command assembled a fleet of 10 air tankers, 15 helicopters and an army of 1,300 firefighters to battle the wildfire Today at 9:40 AM By Christopher Weber Associated Press SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — California’s newest huge wildfire advanced on thousands of homes Wednesday, […]

WASHINGTON: Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to bomb targets in Syria sends a message to Washington as it weighs a military partnership with Moscow: Join us or we’ll look to your enemies. Tuesday’s missions were unprecedented. Iran allowed Russian warplanes to take off […]