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U.S. president Donald Trump announces that the United States has reached a ceasefire with the Houthis, with Oman as mediator, and will stop its airstrikes, after they agreed to stop disrupting international shipping.
2025-05-6

Iran and the United States, represented by foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and special envoy Steve Witkoff, hold their first round of indirect talks in Muscat, Oman, and agree to continue the negotiations.
2025-04-12

The deaths of 63 people in Oregon, United States, are also linked to the extreme hot temperatures that are affecting the region.
2021-06-30

The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution sponsored by Cuba, Egypt, Kuwait, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Qatar, and Palestine condemning Israeli forces' use of violence against Palestinians. 139 nations voted in favor of the resolution and nine voted against: Australia, Canada, Guatemala, Hungary, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States.
2020-11-5

Johns Hopkins University says that the death toll due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States has surpassed the number of American casualties during World War I.
2020-06-17

Oman receives 10 former detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp following a request by the United States to take them.
2017-01-16

The United States expels all Syrian diplomats and closes the Syrian embassy in Washington D.C.
2014-03-18

Schools in the United States plan to drop literature classics such as "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Catcher in the Rye" from their curriculum; children there will instead learn from "informational texts" such as "Recommended Levels of Insulation" by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the "Invasive Plant Inventory" by California's Invasive Plant Council in order to be better prepared for workplace reading material.
2012-12-11

The last of the United States' nine-megaton B53 warheads, formerly the most powerful nuclear weapons in the country's nuclear arsenal, is disassembled near Amarillo, Texas, having been in service since 1962.
2011-10-25

Hillary Clinton of the United States speaks out against Iran in Abu Dhabi during a five-day trip to the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar. She requests that the world increase its pressure on Iran, a country she considers "a serious concern".
2011-01-9