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Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob claimed victory over nationalist leader Janez Jansa in the country’s closest election in history, according to nearly complete official results.

KYIV – Ukrainian and U.S. delegations concluded a second day of talks in Florida on finding ways to end the four-year war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said ​on Sunday. Russian representatives were not present at the talks, which opened in Florida on Saturday. They were originally expected to attend the negotiations, which were due to take place ⁠in Abu Dhabi.

HAVANA – Cuba had restored power to nearly half of the capital Havana by Sunday afternoon, officials said, less than 24 hours after the national grid collapsed for the second time in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade that has dealt a major blow to the island's already ailing energy infrastructure.

TEL AVIV – Iran said on Sunday it would strike the energy and water systems of its Gulf neighbors in retaliation if U.S. President Donald Trump follows through with a threat delivered a day earlier to hit Iran's electricity grid in 48 hours, escalating the three-week-old war. The prospect of tit-for-tat strikes on civilian infrastructure could further rattle global markets when they reopen on Monday morning, and threaten the livelihoods of millions of civilians in the region who rely almost exclusively in some cases on desalination plants for water.

An American-operated Patriot air defense battery likely fired the interceptor missile involved in a pre-dawn explosion that injured dozens of civilians and tore through homes in U.S.-ally Bahrain 10 days into the war on Iran, according to an analysis by academic researchers examined by Reuters.

Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators trying to move toward a settlement of the four-year war pitting Kyiv against Moscow opened their latest round of talks in Florida on Saturday, with more discussions planned through the weekend.

Iran launched ballistic missiles at the joint U.S.-U.K. military base in Diego Garcia on Friday, demonstrating a weapons capability that goes beyond what Tehran was known to have possessed. The base, a strategic airfield that can host B-2 stealth bombers located nearly 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers) away from Iran, suffered no damage, according to a person familiar with the matter speaking on ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary - In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose friendly ties to Moscow have long given the Kremlin a strategic foothold inside NATO and the European Union.

Residents across the Cuban capital hauled buckets and lined up for water from tanker trucks as a combination ​of fuel shortages and power grid instability left thousands of taps dry.

The U.S. Treasury Department has included Cuba among the few countries that cannot benefit from a temporal lifting of sanctions on Russian oil, just as a Russian tanker carrying crude is heading to the island in defiance of the Trump administration. As the price of gas has soared in the midst of the U.S. military conflict with Iran, the Treasury authorized last week the sale of previously ...

Some 65% of Americans believe U.S. President Donald Trump will order troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran but only 7% ​support the idea, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Thursday.

Leaders from the European Union stepped up criticism of Donald Trump’s war in Iran in a clear indication they don’t plan to heed the U.S. president’s demand for allies to help America’s military secure the Strait of Hormuz while fighting continues.

Iran maintained attacks on energy assets around the Middle East even after U.S. President Donald Trump called for restraint, with damage to key oil and gas infrastructure triggering a fresh surge in prices.

President Donald Trump's administration is considering deploying thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East, as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran, said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.

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.