WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump has taken the unusual step of tapping military leaders for high-level diplomacy, sending the top U.S. commander in the Middle East to talks over Iran’s nuclear program and positioning the Army secretary as a key negotiator on ending the Russia-Ukraine war.
CAIRO (AP) – The head of Yemen’s ruling leadership council has named a new cabinet, weeks after deadly clashes in the country’s south and the dissolution of a separatist group. The escalation has exposed cracks in a Saudi-led coalition fighting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. Rashad al-Alimi announced the cabinet in a presidential decree late Friday.
NEW YORK (AP) – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore funding to a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey on Friday, ruling just as construction was set to shut down on the massive infrastructure project.
MILAN (AP) – American athletes received an enthusiastic welcome at the opening ceremony for the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, but the mood shifted when cameras briefly turned to Vice President JD Vance.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump’s social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses. First it dismissed “fake outrage,” then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters Friday that “I didn’t make a mistake.”
ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital that killed 31 people, the interior minister said Saturday.
CAIRO (AP) – A drone attack by a notorious paramilitary group hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan on Saturday, killing at least 24 people, including eight children, a doctors’ group said, a day after a World Food Program aid convoy was targeted.
An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance while he was visiting his home state last month. But the man’s lawyer said his health makes it unlikely he would have been able to carry out the threat.
MILAN (AP) – Tourists to Milan during the Winter Olympics hoping to see Leonardo da Vinci’s ” The Last Supper” were in for an unwelcome surprise: Access to the masterpiece is closed to the public for 3 1/2 days.
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