WASHINGTON—The Obama administration, pushing to support international trade with Iran, has advised the country's rulers not to worry about new U.S. legislation that clamps visa restrictions on people who have traveled to Iran. Iranian officials have publicly complained the new U.S. rules will ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's deputy foreign minister says changes to a U.S. visa waiver program that now impose travel restrictions on those who visit Iran contradict the landmark nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers. The U.S. recently tightened security requirements of its visa ...
Changes to a U.S. visa waiver program that impose travel restrictions on those who visit Iran contradict the landmark nuclear agreement between Tehran and world powers, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday. The U.S. in recent days tightened security requirements of its visa waiver ...
Israeli and Palestinian rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres/ The United Nations committee on torture says there is evidence that Israel is operating a "de facto state policy of organised and widespread torture". The committee regularly reviews the ...
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stands at the State Department in Washington, Sept. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)/ PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — The prime minister of retracted comments where she asserted that no U.S. Marines were currently in the ...
A gun battle and air strikes resulted in the deadliest incident of its kind for months/ At least 13 people have been killed in an Israeli raid on a village in southern Syria overnight, state media reported, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind for months. It said children were among the ...
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the introduction of a new "mansion tax" on properties valued at £2m and over as one of the measures unveiled in her It’s estimated that around 0.4% of properties, about 145,000, according to Savills, will be affected by this extra fee, which the government ...
BBC correspondent examines footage showing moments leading up to shooting in the occupied West Bank/ Video has emerged showing Israeli security forces shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered in the occupied West Bank. The incident happened during an ongoing Israeli ...
A worker fills a bag with wood chip biomass at Nova Pangaea Technologies, in Redcar, Britain, April 9, 2025. REUTERS/Dominic Lipinski/ LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's government watered down plans to strengthen workers' protection against unfair dismissal on Thursday, saying employees would get the ...
PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Due to large amounts of rain, the city of Peoria has issued a Combined Sewer Overflow Alert for Thursday. When Peoria gets too much rainfall, the sewers overflow, and instead of that sewage going to the water treatment plant, it flows into the Illinois River, said public ...
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, ...
A drone view of a Karahantepe excavation site, widely regarded with Gobeklitepe as keys to understanding the birth of symbolic thought, social complexity and monumental architecture thousands of years before cities or states existed, near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, Turkey, November 25, ...
A letter from the Texas state attorney general threatens to derail college sports’ new enforcement entity before it has really even got going. In a three-page letter sent to the seven power conference universities in Texas, Ken Paxton implores the schools not to sign the College Sports ...