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Investor interest in Portugal’s golden visa, Europe’s hottest residency-by-investment program, is cooling after the government doubled the time that foreigners must wait to qualify for Portuguese citizenship.

Amid a tense standoff with the Trump administration, Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has announced sweeping reforms that would grant more autonomy to state enterprises, expand private-sector activities and allow Cubans on the island and abroad to invest on equal footing with foreign investors.

Authorities are unable to determine the true extent of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo because emergency workers can’t find all the missing contacts of patients infected by the virus, Africa’s top health official said. Congo reported 676 confirmed cases and 136 deaths as of June 10, the National Institute of Public Health said. The outbreak has spread into three ...

In a rousing speech in Munich in February, Keir Starmer vowed to “spend more, faster” to counter the threat from Russia. Four months later, his defense secretary quit over the embattled U.K. premier’s failure to follow through, destroying his best shot at a lasting legacy.

Twelve police officers were injured and 16 arrests were made in the second night of unrest in Northern Ireland following the Belfast knife attack, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn has said.

The U.S. and Canada have decided to delay the opening of a new $4.7 billion bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, that was set to open in the coming days after U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year threatened to ​block the crossing.

Deep in an underground bunker, where walls of screens stream live data from across the battlefield, the commander of Ukraine's drone forces is poring over terabytes of information to map out his next campaign: cutting Crimea off from Russia.

The U.S. military said it had launched strikes against “multiple” targets in Iran for the second day in a row after President Donald Trump accused the country of dragging out talks on an interim peace deal.

U.S. retaliatory strikes against Iran will continue after its forces shot down an American helicopter, President Donald Trump said Wednesday, accusing the Islamic Republic of stringing him along over months of negotiations to end the war.

Somali referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan was denied entry into the United States for the World Cup after enduring an 11-hour interrogation in Miami, according to media reports. Andrew Giuliani, head of the White House Task Force on the World Cup, indicated Artan was suspected to having ties to a Somali militant group.

The Iran national team has been granted visas to enter the United States for the 2026 World Cup, but several team officials have seen their visas denied.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the United States would strike Iran again if no peace deal is secured, threatening further escalation following one of the most significant exchanges of hostilities in two months.

President Donald Trump said the United States must respond after he blamed Iran for shooting down an American military helicopter off Oman, posing a new threat to the peace deal he’s said for weeks is close.

WASHINGTON − The U.S. military launched strikes against Iran on Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed retaliation over the Islamic Republic downing an American Apache helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.

For Jeffrey Epstein, the relief efforts following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated the Caribbean nation’s economy were just another opportunity to promote himself.

The number of confirmed deaths linked to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has risen to 101, officials said on Tuesday.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Hundreds of anti-immigrant protesters took to the streets of Belfast on Tuesday, with some setting vehicles alight, after police charged a Sudanese man over a knife attack that left one person with serious neck and head wounds.