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TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that he had been diagnosed with and treated for early-stage prostate cancer but delayed revealing his condition for two months to avoid it being used against Israel amid the war with Iran.

A U.S. Army soldier charged with making $400,000 by using insider information to bet on the removal of ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been released on $250,000 bond, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday. 

The U.S. increased pressure on Iran with its naval blockade, as it seeks to get Tehran to agree to talks, while Israel and Lebanon are set to extend a ceasefire for three weeks.

Paolo Zampolli, a longtime friend of President Donald Trump who is now serving as U.S. special envoy for global partnerships, has suggested that Italy replace Iran in this year’s World Cup, the quadrennial soccer tournament, which will be held starting in June in the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Pope Leo XIV returned to the Vatican from a 11-day trip to Africa on Thursday with his papacy seemingly transformed - a pontiff known during his first year for being tempered and at times careful to a fault suddenly demonstrating an ability to roar.

After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Donald Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to Congo, an aid worker briefed on the plan said Tuesday.

The U.S. and Iran are locked in a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz after failing to meet for a fresh round of peace talks, with both sides using blocks to the waterway to gain leverage during an extended ceasefire.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would have won the Vietnam War and threatened to resume airstrikes on Iran in the latest round of disturbing mixed messages about the Middle East conflict even as the warring sides prepare to return to the table for more peace talks.

A man long sought in connection with the deadliest terrorist attack in Panama’s history arrived in the country Monday after being extradited from Venezuela, marking a breakthrough in a case that had remained unresolved for more than three decades, U.S. officials in Panama said.

When Ukrainian military draft officers stopped two men to check their identity documents, a passing group of youths suddenly attacked them, enabling one of the detainees to flee.

A second round of face-to-face peace talks between the United States and Iran, planned for this week in Pakistan, remain on shaky footing after Iranian officials threatened not to attend following the U.S. seizure of an Iranian-flagged vessel near the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.7 struck off north-eastern Japan on Monday, triggering tsunami warnings in several coastal areas that were later lifted.

China has sent a group of warships to hold drills in the western Pacific Ocean, a move that comes as Japan for the first time joins massive exercises with the U.S. and the Philippines, highlighting growing tensions between Tokyo and Beijing. The Chinese navy dispatched a naval task group led by the Type 052D destroyer Baotou to transit between Japan’s Amami Oshima and Yokoate islands and ...

Hungary’s outgoing government signaled it’s ready to unblock the European Union’s $106 billion loan to Ukraine as soon as this week just as the new leadership in Budapest kicked off intensive talks with Brussels to tap its own stalled funding. Hungary has information from Ukraine “via mediation from Brussels” that Russian oil flows may resume as soon as Monday on the Druzhba pipeline, outgoing ...