The Panama Canal Authority has initiated progressive transit restrictions, reducing daily vessel passages from 36 to 32 by mid-September as a historic El Niño-driven drought severely lowers water levels in Gatun and Alajuela lakes
The US State Department has approved a potential $5 billion Foreign Military Sale to Saudi Arabia for over 10,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kits and general-purpose bombs to bolster the Gulf partner's defense against regional missile and drone attacks during the US-Iran war
US President Donald Trump dismissed the ongoing six-month confrontation with Iran as "small potatoes" and a minor "military conflict"
US President Donald Trump announced he is sending special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a fresh proposal to end the four-and-a-half-year war
Trump defended Maria Bartiromo after Fox News fired her over reports she leaked internal messages on his 2020 election claims to the White House.
Araghchi says the US respects neither Arab nor Iranian sovereignty, defending Tehran's strikes after Jordan criticised Iran's response to Washington
UAE and US officials meet in Abu Dhabi to advance tolerance, coexistence and dialogue, and boost cooperation against antisemitism and extremism
Jamieson Greer says Britain is choosing Brussels over America, calling its EU alignment a problem for expanding its post-Brexit trade deal with Washington
Iranian forces launched renewed missile and drone strikes against US military positions at Kuwait's Ahmad al-Jaber Air Base and UAE's Al Minhad Air Base, while US Vice President JD Vance confirmed Washington is investigating an alleged US airstrike that killed four at a wedding in Kuhestak
Twenty-five years after 9/11, New York’s Muslim community has evolved beyond intense post-attack discrimination
US Vice President JD Vance stated during a White House press briefing that he would not characterize the six-month conflict with Iran as a war
Trump spoke by phone with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed as Iran said it targeted US military bases in the UAE and Kuwait
A gunman opened fire inside a downtown Minneapolis apartment complex near Loring Park on Wednesday afternoon, killing two civilians and wounding several others, including three police officers, before the suspect was found dead
U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian security officials exchanged sharp threats following overnight airstrikes in southern Iran—including a strike in Sirik that hit a wedding ceremony
US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction halting President Donald Trump's August 2026 executive order targeting birthright citizenship and "birth tourism," ruling that the directive defies the Supreme Court's June decision upholding 14th Amendment guarantees
Trump has repeatedly pressed his threat to claim sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz in recent weeks
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrived at Laem Chabang port in Thailand for a four-day rest-and-recreation visit, concluding a historic 286-day deployment in the Middle East marked by intense combat and scrutiny over shipboard conditions
G20 finance ministers' summit in North Carolina concluded with sharp diplomatic divides over the US Treasury's invitation to Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov
Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched ballistic missile and drone attacks targeting US military facilities across Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Iraqi Kurdistan in retaliation for American strikes that killed 11 people in southern Iran, including four at a wedding celebration
The opening of the G20 finance ministers summit in Asheville, North Carolina, triggered sharp pushback from European officials over the surprise in-person attendance of Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, alongside growing media access restrictions
