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US prepares for possible Iranian reprisal after drone strike

WASHINGTON - U.S. officials braced for Iran to respond to the killing of its most powerful general, noting heightened military readiness in the country and preparing for a possible "tit-for-tat" attem...

Jan 07, 2020

Russia's Putin visits Syria to meet Assad, a key Iran ally

DAMASCUS, Syria - Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad and other officials, said Syrian state media and a Kremlin spokesman The visit to Syria, a key...

Jan 07, 2020

Iraq vote, Hezbollah threat levelled at US troops in Mideast

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military presence in the Middle East was thrown into jeopardy Sunday, as Iraq's parliament voted to expel U.S. troops from their country while the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah grou...

Jan 07, 2020

Legal group seeks federal inquiry into Mississippi prisons

Prisoner advocates are calling on the federal government to investigate Mississippi's prison system for possible civil rights violations, saying the violence of recent days highlights deliberate viola...

Jan 07, 2020

Germany moves 35 soldiers from Iraq to Jordan, Kuwait

BERLIN - Germany moved 35 soldiers serving in Iraq to neighbouring Jordan and Kuwait on Tuesday amid tensions over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in an airstrike in Baghdad last week. The k...

Jan 07, 2020

UK woman in Cyprus gang rape case gets suspended sentence

PARALIMNI, Cyprus - A Cyprus court on Tuesday handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who was found guilty of public mischief after authorities said she made up claims th...

Jan 07, 2020

Drunken driver in Italy plows into German tourists, kills 6

ROME - A drunken driver speeding on a mountain road plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing six people and injuring 11 others, Italian authorities said. Th...

Jan 07, 2020

Death of Iran general spurs anxiety over fate of US hostages

WASHINGTON - The killing of a top Iranian general has ratcheted up the anxiety of families of Americans held in Iran, one month after the release of a New Jersey student had given them hope. The Trump...

Jan 07, 2020

Iran Guard leader threatens to 'set ablaze' US-backed areas

TEHRAN, Iran - The leader of Iran's Revolutionary Guard threatened on Tuesday to "set ablaze" places supported by the United States over the killing of a top Iranian general in a U.S. airstrike last w...

Jan 07, 2020

Iranian general transformed Syria's war in Assad's favour

BEIRUT - When Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare visit to Tehran last year, the powerful Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani was there to greet him, along with Iran's supreme leader ...

Jan 07, 2020