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Iran and the US trade strikes in the Persian Gulf, further testing ceasefire

Kuwait briefly shut its main airport Wednesday after Iranian drones heavily damaged a terminal building, killing an Indian national and wounding dozens

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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra freed early from parole after receiving royal pardon

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has completed his obligations related to a prison sentence

Raúl Castro turns 95 as Cuba celebrates enigmatic figure

Raúl Castro has turned 95, a landmark birthday for a man still helping lead one of the last communist countries in the world

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New prime minister says Solomon Islands will review its secretive security treaty with China

The Solomon Islands' new leader says the country will review its secretive security treaty with China

One-ton cocaine bust reveals secret US-Mexico tunnel

Members of Jalisco New Generation cartel used fake retail store in San Diego as front for trafficking drugs, officials sayFederal prosecutors have charged four suspects with trafficking more than one ton of cocaine for the Jalisco New Generation cartel using a fake retail store in San Diego as a front for a sophisticated tunnel that ran across the border to Tijuana, Mexico.The defendants include two Mexican nationals and two Americans charged with conspiring to traffic drugs across the US-Mexico border. The suspects, who range in age from 18 to 32, all face sentences that could put them in prison for life. One of them, Gregorio Epifanio Hernandez Lopez, also faces the charge of “constructing, financing or using unauthorized tunnels”. Continue reading...