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A federal judge on Friday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration had adopted a series of unlawful policies that have barred people from 39 countries from receiving decisions on applications for asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will travel to North Korea next week, marking his inaugural overseas trip of the year after recently hosting Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Xi will travel to Pyongyang for the first time since 2019 from June 8-9 at the invitation of Kim Jong Un, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. That visit comes as Kim steps up diplomatic ...

DAKAR, Senegal – The World Health Organization chief announced a $518 million six-month joint plan to fight Ebola on Friday, calling for money and political commitment to halt the spread of an outbreak that is already the fourth biggest on record.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in which he proposed the two leaders meet to agree an end ​to more than four years of war, warning that Kyiv stood ready to fight on otherwise.

Several staff members were injured when the nose gear of a Boeing 787 jetliner unexpectedly collapsed ​at a gate at Frankfurt airport on Thursday, its operator Lufthansa said.

Lebanon and Israel said on Wednesday that they had agreed to the implementation of a ceasefire following negotiations in Washington aimed at ending the ​conflict that flared up alongside the war in Iran.

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran clashed again overnight, with Kuwait and Bahrain caught in the crossfire of the most serious flare-up since a ceasefire went into effect in early April. The developments follow days of rising tension, including over Israeli operations against Tehran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, that threaten to derail U.S.-Iran talks about an interim peace ...

Ukraine launched drone attacks on the city of St Petersburg on Wednesday morning, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, hours before the Russian metropolis was set to open its international economic forum.

WASHINGTON – Hostilities in the Gulf erupted anew on Wednesday with a report of missile attacks on Kuwait, while little progress was evident in diplomatic talks between Iran and the United States.

Mexico’s sugar industry is pushing for the United States to eliminate limits on U.S. imports and is working on a potential anti-dumping case against U.S. fructose should talks on the issue fail, industry representatives said on Tuesday.

LONDON – The United States announced sanctions on Iran’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange on Tuesday, accusing it of enabling the Iranian government and blacklisted state institutions to circumvent Western sanctions.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday that the U.S. would re-engage with the global vaccine alliance Gavi amid the Ebola outbreak in several African countries.

WASHINGTON – Canada had a positive meeting with the U.S. on the review of their free trade deal, Canada's minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, Dominic LeBlanc, said in Washington on Tuesday, but declined to provide many details.

A U.S.-funded Ebola isolation facility under construction in Kenya became the focus of protests after a court temporarily blocked the project pending a review of its potential health risks.

Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok rejected Prime Minister Peter Magyar’s demand that he resign, setting up a political showdown between the country’s old and new leadership figures. Magyar, whose crushing election victory ousted former premier Viktor Orban, had set a midnight Sunday deadline for Sulyok to leave.