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Iran on Tuesday slammed the Trump administration over new U.S. sanctions targeting the country’s supreme leader and other top officials, with the Foreign Ministry saying the measures spell “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington. President Donald Trump enacted the

Three astronauts safely returned to Earth on Tuesday after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule with astronauts from Canada, Russia and the United States landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 8:47 a.m. (0247GMT),

Egypt’s first and only democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday. The 67-year-old Morsi had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept in during sessions and warning that he

The head of Libya’s U.N.-supported government on Sunday proposed holding nationwide elections to end the war in the North African country, as the forces of the rival military commander Khalifa Hifter continue their two-month-long battle to take the capital, Tripoli. Prime

A suspected kidnapper believe to be Nigerian has been arrested for attempting to kidnap a boy around the Maamobi polyclinic in Accra, Ghana. The suspect, yet to be named, was arrested after an eyewitness raised an alarm while he was luring

A Jerusalem magistrate court on Sunday sentenced Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to pay a fine of more than $15,000 for misusing state funds. The sentencing comes after she agreed to a plea bargain that ended

Hundreds of people were detained Wednesday as they marched in the Russian capital to protest what they called police fabrications in the wake of the arrest of an investigative journalist on drug charges that later were dropped when the government admitted

The United States on Tuesday sanctioned prominent Syrian businessman Samer Foz and his family, who have close ties to Bashar Assad and who Washington said has made millions by developing properties on land seized from those who fled the war. The