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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz would be opened as soon as a “great settlement” of the war in Iran was signed, an event he said he expected would happen within days. “We just made a great settlement of the war with Iran”, Trump …
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NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Thursday extended its block on a lower court ruling against the Trump administration’s 10% global tariff under Section 122 of the Trade Act, keeping the tariffs in place for three importers that had won a reprieve from the duties last week. • The decision from …
June 12 (Reuters) – A pro-Russian opposition alliance filed a request to Armenia’s election commission on Friday to throw out the results of last Sunday’s parliamentary election, won by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s governing party. The petition was submitted by Strong Armenia, party member Aram Vardevanyan told reporters in the capital Yerevan, after opposition groups …
KYIV, June 12 (Reuters) – Ukraine will seek an additional $20 billion in military funding from its allies at a meeting next week to cement what it sees as its current battlefield advantage over Russia, a Ukrainian defense source said. The request will be made next Thursday at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact …
DAKAR, June 12 (Reuters) – Mali’s local al Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has offered millions of euros for information on the whereabouts of the president and top military officials, describing the government as an illegitimate entity. • The insurgents’ statement on Thursday follows a similar offer made by the government for information …
More than 30 lawsuits have been filed against GKN Aerospace after one of the company’s tanks containing a highly flammable chemical overheated and threatened a catastrophic explosion last month, forcing the evacuation of about 50,000 residents in California’s Orange County. Debbie Cohran, who lives about 500 feet (152 meters) from the aerospace facility in Garden …
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believed Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had approved a deal with the U.S. that would trigger the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the lifting of a U.S. blockade on Iranian ports. When asked by a reporter at the White House …
WASHINGTON, June 11 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a threatened U.S. military operation against Kharg Island was off the table for now as he girded for what could be an agreement with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. (Reporting by Steve Holland;Editing by David Ljunggren) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
A Virginia law going into effect on July 1 will seal the criminal records of many people convicted of low-level offenses. The commonwealth’s “Clean Slate” law is expected to automatically seal over 100,000 criminal records of Virginians who were once convicted of misdemeanors such as shoplifting, trespassing and distributing marijuana, but who haven’t reoffended in …