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Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators trying to move toward a settlement of the four-year war pitting Kyiv against Moscow opened their latest round of talks in Florida on Saturday, with more discussions planned through the weekend.

Iran launched ballistic missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. military base in Diego Garcia on Friday, demonstrating a weapons capability that goes beyond what Tehran was known to have possessed. The base, a strategic airfield that can host B-2 stealth bombers located nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away from Iran, suffered no damage, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking on ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose friendly ties to Moscow have long given the Kremlin a strategic foothold inside NATO and the European Union.

Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination ​of fuel shortages and power grid instability left thousands of taps dry.

The U.S. Treasury Department has included Cuba among the few countries that cannot benefit from a temporal lifting of sanctions on Russian oil, just as a Russian tanker carrying crude is heading to the island in defiance of the Trump administration. As the price of gas has soared in the midst of the U.S. military conflict with Iran, the Treasury authorized last week the sale of previously ...

Some 65% of Americans believe U.S. President Donald Trump will order troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran but only 7% ​support the idea, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday.

Leaders from the European Union stepped up criticism of Donald Trump’s war in Iran in a clear indication they don’t plan to heed the U.S. president’s demand for allies to help America’s military secure the Strait of Hormuz while fighting continues.

Iran maintained attacks on energy assets around the Middle East even after U.S. President Donald Trump called for restraint, with damage to key oil and gas infrastructure triggering a fresh surge in prices.

President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.

As Cuba adopts a more belligerent tone following President Donald Trump’s talk of “taking” the country, two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are headed to the island, in defiance of de facto oil embargo the U.S. has imposed on the communist-run nation. Cuban leader Miguel Diaz Canel replied to repeated comments from Trump’s about taking the island with a defiant message of his own, telling ...

Iran said the United States and Israel struck its giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, the latest attack on energy assets in the regionwide conflict.

President Donald Trump has long been skeptical about the value of alliances. Two weeks into his war with Iran, he was seeking Tuesday to build one.

Jillian Emory of the Fairmount neighborhood spent years connecting to her Italian roots. She learned the language, studied and worked abroad, and hired a genealogist to help track down her family members in Italy. Then, a new Italian court ruling on citizenship dropped, dashing that dream abruptly for Emory and millions of others in her shoes.

Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani was one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, an architect of its security policy, and a close adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei until the supreme leader's death in an airstrike last month.

Chile's new right-wing government has begun deploying heavy machinery to dig trenches along its northern border with Peru, moving to deliver on President Jose Antonio Kast's ​campaign pledge to crack down on illegal migration and increase military presence at the border.

The State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide to “immediately” undertake security evaluations, citing “the ongoing and developing situation in the Middle East and the potential for spill-over effects,” according to a cable sent Tuesday that was reviewed by The Washington Post.

HAVANA – Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country’s grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.