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An Iranian man checks a rug at a shop selling antique and expensive carpets in northern Tehran on Sept. 9.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 29, 2025
Iran's carpet industry unraveling under sanctions
The Persian rug risks becoming a relic of a lost golden age, with its legacy hanging by a thread.
U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced a $100,000 fee for the H-1B visa earlier this month, a move that potentially deals a big blow to the technology sector that sources many skilled workers from India.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 29, 2025
'Clog the toilet' trolls hit Indian visa holders rushing back to U.S.
Users on the far-right message board 4chan moved to overwhelm flight reservation systems, in a bid to block Indian visa holders from booking tickets.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on April 7
WORLD / Politics
Sep 29, 2025
Netanyahu to meet Trump as U.S. intensifies Gaza ceasefire push
The talks come as Israel intensifies its offensive on Gaza City with the aim of eliminating Hamas’ remaining military strongholds.
U.S. captain Keegan Bradley looks dejected during the second day of the Ryder Cup on Saturday in Farmingdale, New York.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 28, 2025
Europe piles pain on U.S. team in second-day Ryder Cup demolition
The United States, hoping to avenge its dreadful 2023 defeat in Rome, was instead left clinging to only shreds of hope.
ICE agents stand guard during a protest against the immigration policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, outside an ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on Sept. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2025
Trump authorizes 'full force' troop deployment in Portland, Oregon
The U.S. president has made crime a major focus of his administration even as violent crime rates have fallen in many U.S. cities, including Portland.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov listens a question during a news conference after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2025
Russia tells West: Any aggression will be met with 'decisive response'
As war rages in Ukraine, tensions have mounted along NATO's eastern flank.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses pro-Palestinian demonstrators, through a translator, at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside United Nations headquarters, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 28, 2025
Colombian leader’s call to defy Trump amplifies rifts in region
Trump’s confrontational approach to Latin America, which is still scarred by U.S. interventions before and during the Cold War, will be tested in a string of upcoming elections.
A banner stating, "If they commit any acts of evil, they will definitely get a harder blow back," is displayed in Tehran in April.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 28, 2025
'Snapback' sends West back to the drawing board on Iran's nuclear program
Despite a last-minute rush of diplomatic activity at the U.N., Iran has done little to stop the sanctions from going back into effect.
A Boston police officer watches as protesters kneel in the street during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Boston in June 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
FBI fires agents pictured kneeling during racial justice protest in 2020
Sources said the agents in question were trying to ease tensions between protesters and law enforcement.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
U.S. to revoke Colombian president's visa over 'incendiary actions'
Colombian President Gustavo Petro urged U.S. soldiers to disobey President Donald Trump's orders and to obey "the orders of humanity" instead.
A parody Mount Rushmore sculpture depicts the faces of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (second from right) and U.S. President Donald Trump (right), as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a shopping mall in Bangkok on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Seoul says it can’t rule out Kim-Trump meeting during APEC summit
A report quoting a South Korean official appeared to reverse Seoul’s earlier position that North Korea’s participation in the summit was unlikely.
American Scottie Scheffler plays a shot from the bunker during the first day of the Ryder Cup on Friday in Farmingdale, New York.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Sep 27, 2025
U.S. won't 'panic' after difficult start to Ryder Cup
Struggling U.S. stars Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau will return to the first tee Saturday with Team Europe ahead 5½-2½.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while leaving the White House on Friday morning. Trump on Friday cheered the indictment of James Comey, the former FBI director and predicted more indictments were on the way, even as he denied that he had a list of perceived enemies he wanted to see prosecuted.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Sep 27, 2025
Comey indictment escalates Trump's campaign to chill opposition
Experts say the U.S. criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey shatters norms of independence in federal investigations and will face significant hurdles in court.
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his planned rollback of automatic birthright citizenship, a move that will test a Trump executive order that lower courts have uniformly concluded runs afoul of the Constitution, federal immigration law and Supreme Court precedent.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to curb birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of his bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, teeing up a major test of one of his most contentious policies that could alter how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood on the...
Fishermen sail on a boat near Caraballeda, in Venezuela's La Guaira state, on Wednesday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
Sitting ducks: Venezuelan fishermen wary of U.S. warships
Feeling exposed, they have started heading out in groups, limiting their range and traveling with emergency beacons issued by the government.
U.S.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the Pentagon, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
As U.S. military leaders prepare for Virginia meeting, agenda comes into focus
Some officials have billed the meeting between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top U.S. military leaders across the globe as focused on the "warrior ethos."
A federal agent aims a less-lethal launcher at protesters outside the Broadview ICE processing facility, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence to assist with crime prevention, in Broadview, Illinois, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
ICE tactics inflame tensions in New York, Chicago and other cities
Immigration officers are pepper spraying protesters and manhandling detainees in overt displays of force.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (center) walks on his way to a meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York City on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Iran says it won’t exit nuclear pact despite sanctions snapback
The Iranian president’s words marked a shift in tone from July, when a lead Iranian negotiator said they had not ruled out leaving the agreement.
A DJI drone at a technology and industry trade fair in Berlin
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2025
Drone maker DJI loses lawsuit to exit Pentagon's list of firms with Chinese military ties
The world's largest drone maker said it was disappointed that the judge upheld the listing and was evaluating its legal options.
People carry a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump, as they protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after he delivered an address at the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
Trump says Gaza talks with Middle East countries are intense and will continue
Trump met leaders and officials from multiple Muslim-majority countries this week to discuss the situation in Gaza.

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