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A Pentagon spokesman added that the Americans had launched a dozen interceptors against the Iranian missiles and that none of the 40,000 U.S. troops in the region were hurt in the attacks.

After a weekend of intense talks, the American officials said they believed that Israel was planning only smaller, targeted incursions in southern Lebanon.

The Biden administration is struggling to halt cooperation among Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It feels urgency over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East while also aiming to protect Taiwan.

Growing up in a Black township, Vusi Mdoyi found a sprinkle of joy under apartheid in a street-dancing style known as pantsula. As a choreographer, he has elevated it into high art, injected with ideas.

The United States has 2,500 troops in Iraq who served as a bulwark against attacks by a resurgent Islamic State.

The public call from Speaker Mike Johnson deals a blow to Kyiv’s efforts to avoid the partisan acrimony of the U.S. presidential campaign.

With fears growing of a wider regional war in the Middle East, the United States, European allies and Arab nations were working to broker a 21-day pause in the fighting.

Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.

Hours after President Biden delivered his final U.N. speech, Masoud Pezeshkian, who was elected in July, gave his first.

In his final U.N. speech, President Biden delivered a message of hope that wars in Ukraine, the Middle East and Sudan could end. Other world leaders castigated Israel.