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JERUSALEM – Israel said it had launched another wave of strikes on Iran on Sunday, as Iranians faced uncertainty after the killing of their supreme leader in U.S. and Israeli attacks that threatened to destabilize the wider Middle East.

Before the American and Israeli bombs started falling Saturday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the authoritarian center of the theocratic regime for nearly 40 years, had planned for a transition of power in the event of his death.

Dubai’s main airport, the world’s busiest aviation hub, was partially damaged by a suspected aerial strike on one of its main terminal buildings, marking another escalation after air traffic in the Persian Gulf closed down hours after Iran’s retaliatory attacks. The airport operator confirmed that one concourse at Dubai International “sustained minor damage in an incident, which was quickly ...

After a decade of debate, by year’s end the world should finally have a rule book for mining the deep sea, Leticia Carvalho, the head of the International Seabed Authority, said in an interview.

KYIV, Ukraine – Russia said at recent talks in Geneva it would accept the U.S. proposal for Ukraine's ​post-war security guarantees, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Saturday.

Doug Kelley, who helped organize the first running of Bloomsday, was traveling home Saturday from a trip to Africa, at a pit stop in Doha, Qatar, when he got an alert on his phone.

JERUSALEM – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed on Saturday, state media confirmed, after the United States and Israel launched the most ambitious attack on Iranian targets in decades.

SYDNEY — From the coast of Queensland to the bush of the Northern Territory, something rather odd has happened in some homes in Australia: Smartphones lie unnoticed on the kitchen table in the morning, children are scrolling significantly less and family members are interacting with each other much more. It's been almost three months since Australia became the first country in the world to ...

DUBAI – Major Middle Eastern airports, including Dubai, the world’s busiest international travel hub, were shut on Saturday after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran and Iranian missile retaliation rippled through the region, unleashing one of the most severe disruptions to global aviation in years.

The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks. Other countries including the U.K., China and India have advised citizens or diplomats to leave some parts of the Middle East.

The Trump administration’s move to ease fuel shipments to Cuba’s nascent private sector is part of a plan to make the island more reliant on the U.S. for supplies, increasing Washington’s leverage to bring about political and economic change, according to people familiar with the strategy.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers said on Friday they were willing to negotiate after Pakistan bombed their forces in major cities and said the allies-turned-foes were in “open war.”

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts. The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said in an emailed statement. “We ...

U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

 Cindy McCain intends to step down as head of the United Nations World Food Program, she said on Thursday, ​months after she suffered a mild stroke.

For days, the fate of roughly 90 million Iranians has appeared to swing between war and peace as U.S. and Iranian officials traded threats of attack and calls for diplomacy.

Laurence des Cars, the first female president of the Louvre Museum, resigned Tuesday, less than three months after an audacious theft raised thorny questions about security at one of the world's most famous museums.