US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Israel yesterday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly to discuss Gaza, two people briefed on the matter said, as local authorities reported further violence in the enclave.

Snow and heavy rain have killed 61 people in Afghanistan in the last three days, the disaster management authority said yesterday.

The death toll from a suicide bombing at a wedding near the Afghan border rose to seven yesterday, police said.

Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodriguez said Friday that over 600 inmates have been released, far more than estimated by rights groups, who are demanding the liberation of all political prisoners.

US President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Canada that if it concludes a trade deal with China, he will impose a 100 percent tariff on all goods coming over the border

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Greenland was a colony of Denmark for three centuries

Trump also repeated his suggestion that NATO would not come to the aid of the US if asked to do so.

Earlier, Trump said an 'armada' was heading towards Iran

The dollar retreated, falling to a four-month low against the euro.

Protests erupted after a 5-year-old boy and his father were detained from their driveway by ICE

The massive storm system was set to drop a mix of freezing rain and heavy snow starting Friday evening

The United States officially left the World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday after a year of warnings that doing so would hurt public health in the US and globally, saying its decision reflected failures in the UN health agency’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States has an “armada” heading toward Iran but hoped he would not have to use it, as he renewed warnings to Tehran against killing protesters or restarting its nuclear program.

Proposal is to extend mandate of UN probe into 2022 protests

US owes WHO $260 million in fees

Board of Peace did not include the Palestinian Authority, said Spain PM

Renewed verbal attacks from US President Donald Trump are prompting Canadians to rally behind Prime Minister Mark Carney, who earned a rare standing ovation in Davos for openly decrying powerful nations using economic integration as weapons and tariffs as leverage

European leaders have serious doubts but are ready to work with the United States and the newly founded body in Gaza

The commander of US forces in the Middle East has called on Syria’s president to support the transfer of thousands of jihadist prisoners from Syria to Iraq, the US military said.