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Qatar Denies Holding Three Iranian Bomber Pilots From March Al Udeid Attack

New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Three Iranian bomber pilots went down over Qatar in March. Six months later, Tehran names them publicly and says they are alive. Doha has returned one man's remains and insists i... Read More


Shadow Fleet Tanker Caroline Bezengi Spills Oil Into Oman's Protected Marine Reserve

The Caroline Bezengi, Aug. 16 -- The oil did not announce itself. It crept out through the hull of a half-sunken tanker named Caroline Bezengi, spreading across the surface of the Gulf of Oman in slow... Read More


Farage Wins Clacton By-Election, but Nearly 10,000 Votes for a Satirist Signal a Hollow Mandate

LONDON, Aug. 16 -- Nine thousand, four hundred and fifty-five people in Clacton voted last Thursday for a man whose campaign helmet is a rubbish bin and whose platform included capping the price of cr... Read More


Erdogan Says Egypt Could Join Mecca Pact as Saudi-Led Defence Bloc Reshapes Middle East

CAIRO, Aug. 16 -- The defence pact signed in Mecca last week is already drawing a fourth member, or at least the prospect of one. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Egypt's entry ... Read More


Epstein Survivors to Press Burnham for Public Inquiry Into Andrew

LONDON, Aug. 16 -- Six months ago Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on his birthday, held him for eleven hours and released him under investigation. He has not been charged sinc... Read More


Japan's Defense Minister Visits Yasukuni as China Warns of Neo-Militarism Revival

The shrine, Aug. 16 -- Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's defense minister, walked into Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday and made no statement to the reporters waiting for him at the gate. He did not need to. In th... Read More


India Reaffirms Russia Ties as US Senate Targets Its Oil Purchases

NEW DELHI, Aug. 16 -- The phrase both governments reached for on Saturday was the same one they have used for years: a specially privileged strategic partnership. It has never had to carry as much wei... Read More


US Revokes 750 Visas in Birth Tourism Crackdown, State Department Says

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- A revoked visa does not come with a hearing. There is no appeal to an immigration judge, no published reasoning, and in most cases no explanation beyond a consular officer's det... Read More


USS Lincoln's 266-Day Iran War Deployment Ends as Sailor Crisis Grips Navy

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- At some point last week, some number of the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln reportedly tried to jump from the aircraft carrier into the sea. The... Read More


NATO Jet Downs Drone Over Romania as Russian Strikes Kill Woman in Kryvyi Rig

BUCHAREST, Aug. 16 -- A Spanish F-18 fighter jet on NATO air policing duty intercepted and shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace from the direction of Moldova on Sunday, Romania's Defence M... Read More