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As Cuba adopts a more belligerent tone following President Donald Trump’s talk of “taking” the country, two tankers carrying Russian oil and gas are headed to the island, in defiance of de facto oil embargo the U.S. has imposed on the communist-run nation. Cuban leader Miguel Diaz Canel replied to repeated comments from Trump’s about taking the island with a defiant message of his own, telling ...

Iran said the United States and Israel struck its giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, the latest attack on energy assets in the regionwide conflict.

President Donald Trump has long been skeptical about the value of alliances. Two weeks into his war with Iran, he was seeking Tuesday to build one.

Jillian Emory of the Fairmount neighborhood spent years connecting to her Italian roots. She learned the language, studied and worked abroad, and hired a genealogist to help track down her family members in Italy. Then, a new Italian court ruling on citizenship dropped, dashing that dream abruptly for Emory and millions of others in her shoes.

Veteran Iranian politician Ali Larijani was one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic, an architect of its security policy, and a close adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei until the supreme leader's death in an airstrike last month.

Chile's new right-wing government has begun deploying heavy machinery to dig trenches along its northern border with Peru, moving to deliver on President Jose Antonio Kast's ​campaign pledge to crack down on illegal migration and increase military presence at the border.

The State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide to “immediately” undertake security evaluations, citing “the ongoing and developing situation in the Middle East and the potential for spill-over effects,” according to a cable sent Tuesday that was reviewed by The Washington Post.

HAVANA – Cuba’s national electric grid collapsed on Monday, the country’s grid operator said, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a U.S.-imposed oil blockade that has crippled the island’s already obsolete generation system.

Iran struck new targets across the Persian Gulf, hitting a key United Arab Emirates oil hub as U.S. allies balked at President Donald Trump’s demands to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

When José Romero learned there would be tens of thousands of tulips up for grabs on the National Mall on his 48th birthday, he knew he had to try to nab one of the highly sought tickets.

Iran's relations with Gulf states will require a "serious review" in light of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, limiting the power of external actors so the region can become prosperous, Tehran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia told Reuters on Sunday. Asked if he was concerned that ​relations would be harmed by the war, Ambassador Alireza Enayati said: "It's a valid question, and the answer may be simple. We are neighbors and we cannot do without each other; we will need a serious review."

DUBAI – Iran has arrested 500 people accused of sharing information with enemies, the Islamic Republic's police chief said on Sunday, as Israeli and U.S. fighter jets continue ​to strike new targets in the country.

KYIV – Ukraine wants money and technology in return for helping Middle Eastern nations that have sought its expertise as they defend against Iranian kamikaze drones, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, after Kyiv sent specialists to the region.

DUBAI – President Donald Trump said on Sunday his administration is talking to seven countries about helping to secure the Strait of Hormuz amid the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, calling on them to help protect ships in the vital waterway that Tehran has mostly blocked to oil tanker traffic.

CAIRO – Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, health officials said, in one of the heaviest death tolls in a single day in weeks, as Israel continued to launch attacks on Lebanon and Iran. Medics and the interior ministry of the Hamas-run Gaza said ​an Israeli airstrike killed a senior police official and eight other officers when it hit their vehicle near the entrance to Zawayda town in the central Gaza Strip. At least 14 other people, mostly bystanders, were wounded, the ⁠Gaza health ministry said.

AMSTERDAM – An explosion caused minor damage to a Jewish school in Amsterdam early on Saturday, in what the city's mayor ​described as "a deliberate attack against the Jewish community".

YEONCHEON, South Korea – North Korea fired more than 10 ballistic missiles into the sea on Saturday, South Korea's military said, as the U.S. and South Korean forces conducted military drills and ​U.S. President Donald Trump renewed overtures towards Pyongyang for dialogue. 

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was quoted as saying on Friday the U.S. had sought a postponement of the latest round of three-sided talks on a settlement to Ukraine's ​four-year-old conflict with Russia.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the U.S. military has opened a comprehensive investigation into last month’s deadly strike on an elementary school in Iran, in what appeared to be a tacit acknowledgment of the United States’ responsibility for the incident and a shift to examining how it occurred.