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United States officials report that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was pre-warned by Israel about the military operation in Lebanon occurring later that day, and claim that they received no prior details about the nature of the attack.
2024-09-19

The United States tells Qatar to evict Hamas if the latter obstructs an Israeli hostage deal.
2024-05-3

The United States redesignates the Yemen-based Houthis as a terrorist organization in response to continuing attacks in the Red Sea.
2024-01-17

A firefighter is killed and five other people are injured after a building collapses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
2022-06-18

The United States closes its embassy in Minsk, Belarus, and allows "non-essential staff" at its embassy in Moscow to leave the country amid war in neighbouring Ukraine.
2022-02-28

The United States sanctions Ethiopian and Eritrean government and military officials for their involvement in the Tigray War. These sanctions are intended to push all parties in the war to pursue peace.
2021-05-24

The United States surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, the first country in the world to do so.
2020-06-11

The President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou visits Taiping Island, Taiwan's largest island in the South China Sea, despite the United States warning it could provoke diplomatic tensions with the People's Republic of China and other nations in the area.
2016-01-28

International campaigners against the drone attacks, carried out by the United States in Pakistan, launch their attempt to have former CIA legal chief John A. Rizzo arrested and charged with the murders of hundreds of people after his admission in "Newsweek" that he approved attacks each month since 2004.
2011-07-15

President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for a visa to visit the United States next week for the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, and State Department spokesman Philip Crowley has said they will likely be approved, although "a face-to-face meeting between a US diplomat and an Iranian diplomat is highly unlikely"
2010-04-28