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Syrian forces seize major oil, gas fields in eastern Syria, security sources say
Jan 18 (Reuters) - Syrian troops fighting U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces seized the Omar oil field, the country's largest, and the Conoco gas field in the eastern Deir Zor province as allied Arab trib...
Jan 18, 2026
Dutch minister calls Trump's Greenland tariff threat 'blackmail'
AMSTERDAM, Jan 18 (Reuters) - The Netherlands' foreign minister on Sunday said that U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose new tariffs on European allies until they agree to sell Greenland to ...
Jan 18, 2026
Iranian official says verified deaths in Iran protests reaches at least 5,000
Jan 18 (Reuters) - An Iranian official in the region said on Sunday the authorities had verified at least 5,000 people had been killed in protests in Iran, including about 500 security personnel, blam...
Jan 18, 2026
Massive fire kills 6 in Karachi, destroys shopping centre
KARACHI, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Firefighters in Pakistan's largest city were fighting to extinguish a massive blaze on Sunday that has killed six people and reduced parts of a shopping mall to rubble in K...
Jan 18, 2026
Jordan says King Abdullah received invitation to join Gaza peace board
CAIRO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Jordan's foreign ministry said on Sunday that King Abdullah received an invitation from U.S. President Donald Trump to join the so-called "Board of Peace" for Gaza. The forei...
Jan 18, 2026
Two killed, dozens wounded in mass Russian drone attack on Ukraine: Zelenskiy
KYIV, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and dozens wounded in a mass Russian drone attack on Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday. Writing on X, he said the Sumy, Kh...
Jan 18, 2026
Drone strike cuts power supply in Russia-held parts of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region
MOSCOW, Jan 18 (Reuters) - More than 200,000 consumers in the Russian-held part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region were left without electricity on Sunday, the Moscow-installed regional governor said, a...
Jan 18, 2026
Spanish PM Sanchez says US invasion of Greenland 'would make Putin happiest man on earth'
MADRID, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said a U.S. invasion of Greenland "would make Putin the happiest man on earth" in a newspaper interview published on Sunday. Sanchez sai...
Jan 18, 2026
Pentagon readies 1,500 soldiers to possibly deploy to Minnesota, Washington Post reports
Jan 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing defense officials. R...
Jan 17, 2026
Indonesian authorities find wreckage of missing surveillance plane with 11 on board
JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities said on Sunday they had located the wreckage of a fisheries surveillance plane that went missing in South Sulawesi province near a fog-covered mounta...
Jan 17, 2026
