Trump threatens to bomb Oman
Agencies
18 August 2026 United States
Trump dismisses concerns over US aircraft carrier
AFP, Washington
16 August 2026 United States
Five killed in Michigan shooting
Reuters, New York
16 August 2026 United States
Five killed in Michigan shooting, suspect found dead, police say
Reuters, New York
15 August 2026 United States
Abraham Lincoln carrier / US sailors hit by strain of long deployment
AFP, Washington
15 August 2026 United States
11 arrested in US over alleged sham marriage scheme
AFP, Washington
14 August 2026 United States
Trump's spokesperson Karoline Leavitt to step down
AFP, Washington
13 August 2026 United States
After Trump's Turkey ruse, a look at past secret presidential trips
Reuters, Washington
13 August 2026 United States

4 killed, 1 injured in family shooting in Utah suburb

Four members of a family are killed and one is injured in a shooting in a Salt Lake City suburb.
18 January 2020

Historic Trump impeachment trial begins in Senate

The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opens in the US Senate, as lawmakers take a solemn oath to be "impartial" in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office.
17 January 2020

US indicts five for running network

Five men have been indicted in the United States for allegedly running an international network that purchased US products for Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program.
16 January 2020

White House violated law on Ukraine aid

The White House budget office “violated the law” by freezing military aid to put political pressure on Ukraine’s government, a US congressional watchdog announced yesterday as President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial looms.
16 January 2020

US resumes joint military operations in Iraq

The United States on Wednesday resumed joint military operations with Iraq that had been put on pause after the US drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad, the New York Times reported.
16 January 2020

Time running out on S Korea, US talks: envoy

Washington has compromised in its demands that South Korea should pay billions of dollars towards US troop presence and it was Seoul’s turn to reciprocate before time ran out, the American ambassador said yesterday.
16 January 2020

Trump trial likely to begin next Tuesday

The Senate impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump is likely to begin in seven days with key players sworn in later this week, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday.
15 January 2020

US slaps sanctions over N Korea workers

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two companies for exploiting North Korean overseas labor but joined allies Japan and South Korea in appealing for diplomacy to ease tensions with Pyongyang.
15 January 2020

1,000 preparing new US-bound caravan

Close to 1,000 people have gathered in Honduras’ second city forming a migrant caravan that will soon head for the United States, a human rights activist told AFP.
15 January 2020

Delta jet dumps fuel on US school playground

A Delta airliner experiencing mechanical trouble on Tuesday dumped jet fuel onto a school playground in the Los Angeles area, leaving 20 students and several adults with minor injuries.
15 January 2020

Bangladesh elected as the president of UNICEF Executive Board

Ambassador Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, has been unanimously elected as the President of the UNICEF Executive Board at the elections of the Bureau held yesterday at the UN Headquarters in New York.
15 January 2020

US sends home 21 Saudi trainees

The United States will send home 21 Saudi military trainees after an investigation into the “jihadist” killing of three American sailors last month, the Justice Department announced Monday.
14 January 2020

Trump considering visit to India next month

US President Donald Trump is considering visiting India next month, for what would be his first visit to the world’s largest democracy since he took office three years ago, sources with knowledge of the matter said yesterday.
14 January 2020

Planes brought down by missiles since 1973

July 17, 2014: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam.
10 January 2020

Trump sends N Korea’s Kim birthday wishes

US President Donald Trump wished North Korea’s Kim Jong Un a happy birthday, Seoul said yesterday -- with nuclear talks deadlocked and six years after former Chicago Bulls star Dennis Rodman serenaded Pyongyang’s leader.
10 January 2020

‘Designed by clowns’

Boeing’s 737 MAX plane is “designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys”, a company employee wrote in one of a trove of newly published internal messages.
10 January 2020

House votes to rein in Trump

US lawmakers concerned about rushing to war with Iran adopted a measure Thursday aimed at reining in President Donald Trump’s ability to take military action against the Islamic republic.
10 January 2020

US lawmakers set vote to curb Trump’s war powers

Trump administration officials failed to convince Democratic US lawmakers, and some Republicans, on Wednesday that an imminent threat had justified the killing of a top Iranian military commander, and congressional Democrats scheduled a vote on legislation to rein in the president’s ability to wage war.
9 January 2020

'The worst briefing I've had': Senate Iran briefing gets heated

Following Wednesday’s briefing and the sessions, most of Trump's fellow Republicans praises the officials, and Trump, for the strike and the presentation.
9 January 2020

Facebook exec says it helped put Trump in White House

A senior Facebook executive on Tuesday said the world’s biggest social network unintentionally helped put Donald Trump in the White House but warned against dramatic rule changes.
8 January 2020