A delegation of senior State Department representatives traveled to Cuba via a U.S. government plane last week, officials said, a diplomatic opening amid intense pressure from the Trump administration.

The most senior civil servant in Britain's Foreign Office has been fired former ambassador Peter Mandelson's security vetting not being disclosed.

Friday marked the half-way point in Leo’s 11-day tour of four African nations. He leaves Saturday for Angola, another country blessed with oil and other natural resources, but where a third of the population lives on less than $2.

US stocks surged and oil prices plunged after Iran announced the Strait of Hormuz was "completely open." The S&P 500 closed above 7,100 for the first time.

We start with the U.S.-Israel war with Iran — a war that President Donald Trump said would end in two to three weeks. Now, in its seventh week, the Pentagon is sending 10,000 more troops to the Middle East to pressure Iran into making a peace deal.

An 85-year-old woman from France whose late husband was a U.S. veteran returned to France Friday after being detained by ICE for 16 days.

The five permanent members of ​the United Nations' ‌Security Council should agree to change their ​behaviour after failing ​to stop the war ⁠in Iran, Brazilian ​President Luiz Inacio ​Lula da Silva told a progressive leaders' summit in ​Barcelona on ​Saturday.

London police closed down Kensington Gardens Friday after a video was shared online by a group making a threat against the Embassy of Israel.