BUNIA, Congo (AP) – The healthcare workers at the epicenter of Congo’s Ebola outbreak are walking off their jobs to protest delays in their payments, threatening efforts to slow the outbreak that officials said continues to spread faster than the response.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – President Donald Trump surprised NATO leaders he is meeting with in Turkey by launching a series of strikes on Iran late Tuesday and revoking a license that allowed Tehran to sell its oil on the world market, a major twist for a summit that had been aimed at showcasing how alliance members were stepping up spending on defense and focusing on support for Ukraine’s war with Russia.

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Today in History Today is Tuesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2025. There are 176 days left in the year. Today in History: On July 8, 2018, divers rescued four of the 12 boys who had been trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand with their soccer coach for more than two weeks. (The remaining eight boys and their coach were rescued over the next two days.)

Denmark hits back after Trump suggests once again that U.S. should control Greenland

It is crucial for Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding back into instability that could have repercussions far beyond its borders, two top United Nations officials said.

A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a request from the Kennedy Center’s board to keep President Donald Trump’s name on the institution while the board appeals an earlier ruling that dubbed the name change illegal and had it rescinded.

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted that the United States should be in control of Greenland rather than NATO ally Denmark, repeating an assertion that has raised deep tensions in Europe even as the trans-Atlantic military alliance was announcing billions in arms deals in an attempt to appease the mercurial U.S. leader.