U.S. military put its forces in Iraq on highalert andthe State Dept.orders all nonemergency staff to leave the country right away.
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Iran says Trump playing ‘very dangerous game,’ risking ‘devastating war’
Iran’s ambassador to the U.K. called the Trump administration’s military deployment because of unspecified Iranian threats a “serious miscalculation.”
Sweden prosecutors reopen Julian Assange rape probe, seek extradition
Swedish prosecutors reopen rape case against WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange.
Trump’s North Korea diplomacy looks troubled. It may not mean war
North Korea’s missile tests and military preparedness show that Trump’s diplomacy isn’t working, analyst say.
‘Not for doing journalism’: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said he does not want to surrender to US
The WikiLeaks founder has vowed to fight extradition to the United States.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange given 50-week jail sentence for skipping bail
The 47-year-old Australian sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations.
Britain’s ‘pervasive horror of knife crime’ reaches record for number of stabbing homicides
Two-hundred and eighty-five people died in knife-related homicides in England and Wales in 2018. It’s called a national crisis.
Suspects in Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka still at large, may be carrying explosives
At least 58 people have been detained in connection with the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, among the world’s worst terrorist attacks since 9/11.
‘New IRA’ blamed for fatal shooting of journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland
Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally wounded by shots fired toward police amid unrest that included dozens of ‘petrol bombs’ and two hijacked cars, police said
‘Raining fire’: Firsthand accounts from the Notre Dame Cathedral blaze
As Notre Dame burned, organist Johann Vexo and worshipers calmly filed out halfway through a reading of the Gospels.