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The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks. Other countries including the U.K., China and India have advised citizens or diplomats to leave some parts of the Middle East.

The Trump administration’s move to ease fuel shipments to Cuba’s nascent private sector is part of a plan to make the island more reliant on the U.S. for supplies, increasing Washington’s leverage to bring about political and economic change, according to people familiar with the strategy.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan bombed their forces in major cities and said the allies-turned-foes were in “open war.”

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts. The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said in an emailed statement. “We ...

U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

 Cindy McCain intends to step down as head of the United Nations World Food Program, she said on Thursday, ​months after she suffered a mild stroke.

For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as U.S. and Iranian officials traded threats of attack and calls for diplomacy.

Laurence des Cars, the first female president of the Louvre Museum, resigned Tuesday, less than three months after an audacious theft raised thorny questions about security at one of the world's most famous museums.

Mexican security forces located the drug kingpin known as “El Mencho” in part by tracking one of his girlfriends to a secluded cabin in his home state of Jalisco, authorities said Monday.

MEXICO CITY – The Mexican military raid that killed the country's most wanted cartel leader on Sunday was President Claudia Sheinbaum's biggest bet yet, doubling down on her historic offensive against the country's most powerful organized crime groups.

United Kingdom police arrested Labour Party grandee Peter Mandelson on suspicion of misconduct in public office.

The U.S. State Department has expanded a shelter-in-place advisory for Americans in Mexico to include popular tourist destinations amid escalating violence after the killing of a powerful drug ​cartel leader in a military operation.

Mexican drug lord Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, commonly known as “El Mencho,” was killed in a military operation, officials announced on Sunday, the latest victory in Mexico’s war on drug cartels amid U.S. intervention threats.

Iran and the U.S. will hold a third round of nuclear talks Thursday in Geneva, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi said Sunday, amid growing concerns about the risk of military conflict between the longtime adversaries.

KYIV – One police officer was killed and 24 people were wounded after several explosive devices detonated ​at midnight in Lviv, in western Ukraine, the National Police said on Sunday, in ⁠an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskiy blamed on Russia.

KYIV, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Russia attacked Ukraine with dozens of strike drones and ballistic and cruise missiles, focusing on energy infrastructure and killing at least one person, the Ukrainian military and local officials said on Sunday.