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Iran tells US retaliation looms if targeted for Saudi attack
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has warned the U.S. it will retaliate "immediately" if Tehran is targeted over a weekend attack on Saudi oil installations, its state-run news agency reported Wednesday, further ra...
Sep 18, 2019
Saudi Arabia: Half of daily production recovered post-attack
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Tuesday that more than half of the country's daily crude oil production that was knocked out by an attack had been recovered and that ...
Sep 17, 2019
Energy prices spike after Saudi oil attack, US blaming Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Global energy prices spiked on Monday after a weekend attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia caused the worst disruption to world supplies on record, an assaul...
Sep 16, 2019 This image provided on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by the U.S. government and DigitalGlobe and annotated by the source, shows damage to the infrastructure at Saudi Aramco's Abaqaiq oil processing facility in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia. The drone attack Saturday on Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq plant and its Khurais oil field led to the interruption of an estimated 5.7 million barrels of the kingdom's crude oil production per day, equivalent to more than 5% of the world's daily supply. (U.S. government/Digital Globe via AP)
Fire at Brazil hospital kills 11 people, many elderly
RIO DE JANEIRO - A fire raced through a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, forcing staff to wheel patients into the streets on beds or in wheelchairs and killing at least 11 people, many of them elderly. Fou...
Sep 13, 2019
UK court rules Johnson’s suspension of Parliament unlawful
LONDON - A Scottish court dealt another blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit plans Wednesday, ruling that his decision to suspend Parliament less than two months before the U.K. is due to lea...
Sep 11, 2019
Government will propose banning flavours used in e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Wednesday his administration will propose banning thousands of flavours used in e-cigarettes to combat a recent surge in underage vaping. The Food and Drug Adm...
Sep 11, 2019
Afghans fear Trump’s Taliban move means more civilians die
KABUL - The sound of the blast ripped through Kabul, in an instant wrenching the Afghan capital's attention from a nationally televised interview in which a United States envoy revealed the first deta...
Sep 11, 2019
Trump says peace talks with Taliban are now “dead”
WASHINGTON - U.S. peace talks with the Taliban are now "dead," President Donald Trump declared Monday, one day after he abruptly cancelled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan lead...
Sep 09, 2019
UK’s Johnson to suspend Parliament as his Brexit plans stall
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Monday that a new Brexit deal can be reached to ensure Britain leaves the European Union by the Oct. 31 deadline, as he prepared to suspend Parliament an...
Sep 09, 2019
Afghans brace for fresh violence after US-Taliban talks halt
KABUL - Afghans braced for a possible new wave of Taliban violence on Monday after President Donald Trump abruptly called off talks with the insurgent group, which vows to continue its fight against w...
Sep 09, 2019
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