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Concerns rippled through diplomatic circles as officials in the United States and Europe indicated that Israel appeared to be preparing for an imminent attack on Iran, the New York Times reported. Such a move, sources warned, held the potential to severely escalate tensions across the Middle East and jeopardise the Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to negotiate a deal aimed at …

Over the past two decades, more than 5 million U.S. households from California to Georgia to Maine have put solar panels on their roofs, drawing energy from the sun and reducing their electric bills. But that could soon come to a crashing halt. The big domestic policy bill passed by House Republicans last month would, by the end of this …

China and the United States began a new round of trade talks in London on Monday, Beijing’s state media reported, as the world’s two biggest economies seek to shore up a shaky truce after bruising tit-for-tat tariffs. The two sides are meeting in the historic Lancaster House, run by the UK Foreign Office, following a first round of talks in …

UN Security Council members criticized the United States Wednesday after it vetoed a resolution calling for a ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian access in Gaza, which Washington said undermined ongoing diplomacy. It was the 15-member body’s first vote on the situation since November, when the United States — a key Israeli ally — also blocked a text calling for an end …

Overdose deaths in the United States fell by nearly 30,000 last year, the government reported on Wednesday, the strongest sign yet that the country is making progress against one of its deadliest, most intractable public health crises. The data, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the latest in a series of reports over the past year …

US President Donald Trump secured a $600 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to invest in the United States after the oil power rolled out the red carpet for him at the start of a tour of Gulf states. Trump punched the air as he emerged from Air Force One to be greeted by Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who …

United States President Donald Trump reached Saudi Arabia on Tuesday on the first leg of a Gulf tour that will also take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, eyeing business deals even as accords on the Middle East’s hotspots will likely be harder to reach. The trip marks the US president’s first major visit abroad of his second …

The United States and China on Sunday said progress had been made after a weekend of talks aimed at de-escalating trade tensions sparked by President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff rollout. The increasingly ugly trade spat between Washington and Beijing has rocked financial markets and raised fears of a global economic slowdown, and an inflationary spike in the United States. “We’ve …

President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States intended to sign a trade deal with Britain that would bring the two nations closer and roll back some of the punishing tariffs he issued on that country’s products. Both sides consider a trade pact deeply beneficial, and a deal has been under discussion since Mr. Trump’s first term. But the …

President Trump said Britain had agreed to increase market access for billions of dollars of American exports, including beef, ethanol and other farm products under a new trade deal — but left many of the details to be worked out later. The agreement — promoted by Mr. Trump as the first of many that will result from his efforts to …