After calling off strikes on Iran, Trump suggests patience
President Donald Trump said Friday he abruptly called off the swiftly planned military strikes on Iran because the likely deaths of 150 Iranians would have been so out of proportion to the shootdown of an unmanned American surveillance drone. He also indicated he still hopes for talks with Iranian leaders rather than any escalation of military conflict.
US prepped for strikes on Iran before approval was withdrawn
The United States made preparations for a military strike against Iran on Thursday night in retaliation for the downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, but the operation was abruptly called off with just hours to go, a U.S. official said.
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Trump approves strikes on Iran, then abruptly pulls back
It was not clear whether Trump simply changed his mind on the strikes or whether the administration altered course because of logistics or strategy. It was also not clear whether the attacks might still go forward.
Iran shoots down US surveillance drone, heightening tensions
Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down a U.S. surveillance drone Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, marking the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked the American military amid tensions over Tehran's unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
Tensions rise as Iran speeds up enrichment, US sends troops
Iran will surpass the uranium-stockpile limit set by its nuclear deal in the next 10 days, an official said Monday, raising pressure on Europeans trying to save the accord a year after the U.S. withdrawal lit the fuse for the heightened tensions now between Tehran and Washington.
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Video purports to show Iran removing ship mine
The U.S. military's Central Command has released a video it says shows Iranian forces removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the two ships suspected to have been attacked near the Strait of Hormuz. (Video only; no audio)
Perfectly preserved head of Ice Age wolf found in Siberia
Russian scientists have found the furry head of an Ice Age wolf perfectly preserved in the Siberian permafrost 40,000 years after it roamed the earth.
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Oil tankers targeted amid Iran-U.S. tensions
Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were damaged in suspected attacks on Thursday, an assault that left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels and the US Navy rushed to assist amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.
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Hong Kong to push ahead with bill that sparked huge protest
Hong Kong's leader signaled Monday that her government will push ahead with amendments to extradition laws despite a massive protest against them that underscored fears about China's broadening footprint in the semi-autonomous territory.
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Bodies of recent St. John's, UST grad and his friend found in Italian river
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President Trump thanks D-Day veterans
President Donald Trump spoke at the D-Day 75th anniversary event in Normandy, France on Thursday. The president thanked veterans, told stories of the battle and saluted individual veterans who had returned for the event.
French beaches at dawn set scene for solemn D-Day observance
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UN: 2 million Somalis could die of starvation amid drought
A United Nations emergency relief coordinator says more than 2 million men, women and children could die of starvation in Somalia by summer's end if international aid is not sent quickly to the drought-stricken African country.
'Woo-hoo!' At 97, D-Day veteran parachutes into Normandy
No murderous hails of gunfire this time. No D-Day objective that had to be taken, whatever the cost. This time, 75 years almost to the hour after he parachuted into Nazi-occupied France, Tom Rice again found himself floating down through Normandy's skies, now a grizzled 97-year-old thrilled as a little kid.
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Trump reads prayer read by Roosevelt in 1944
President Donald Trump has helped kick off two days of D-Day observances by reading excerpts of a prayer that President Franklin Roosevelt read to the nation on June 6, 1944.
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Queen Elizabeth II, President Trump at D-Day event
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and U.S. President Donald Trump have arrived in Portsmouth for D-Day celebrations.
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The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has surpassed 2,000 cases and is picking up speed.
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