U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has called on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Persian Gulf states to ease their blockade on Qatar, saying the move has hindered U.S. military efforts, including the air campaign against Islamic State (IS) militants.
A U.S.-backed Syrian Arab-Kurdish coalition has captured territory on the western edge of Raqqa, the extremist group Islamic State's (IS) stronghold and self-declared capital in Syria, a monitoring group says.
British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will work with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland (DUP) to try to form a minority government after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in a snap election.
Azerbaijani Energy Minister Natiq Aliyev has died in a Turkish hospital, news reports cited Azerbaijani officials as saying.
The United States on June 8 said it opposes a decision by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to hold a referendum in September on independence from Iraq.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the United States is "no longer interested in guaranteeing Europe’s security" and that the European Union must push for more defense and security cooperation among its members.
Reuters, the BBC, and Sky News are projecting based on partial results from the snap elections on June 8 that British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative party will lose its majority in Parliament.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview excerpt released on June 8 said his longtime critic U.S. Senator John McCain is living in the "Old World" but he admires the former Republican presidential candidate's patriotism.
Qatar vowed on Thursday to ride out the isolation imposed on it by fellow Arab states over its alleged support for terrorism and said it would not compromise its sovereignty over foreign policy to resolve the region's biggest diplomatic crisis in years.
Oil prices fell again on Thursday, with a sell-off continuing the day after data showed a surprise surge in U.S. crude inventories, and Brent settled at its lowest since Nov. 29, the eve of an OPEC production cut deal.
The United States shot down a pro-Syrian government drone that fired toward U.S.-led coalition forces in Syria on Thursday, a U.S. military spokesman said, in a major escalation of tensions between Washington and troops supporting Damascus.
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