BAGHDAD — Rockets struck outside an airport near where U.S. forces are based in northern Iraq late Monday, killing one U.S.-led coalition contractor and wounding at least eight other people, Iraqi security and coalition officials said, sparking fears of new hostilities. At least three rockets hit areas between the civilian Irbil international airport in the …

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Iran is denying U.S. and Israeli claims that Iranian operatives were caught recently plotting to bomb the United Arab Emirates’ embassy in Ethiopia. A report Monday by The New York Times cited a spokeswoman at Iran’s embassy in the African nation as characterizing the claims, which Israeli news outlets first circulated early this month as …

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TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) – After a weeklong bus ride from Honduras, Isabel Osorio Medina arrived in northern Mexico with the hope President Joe Biden would make it easier for people like him to get into the United States. “It seems the new president wants to help migrants,” Osorio said as he got ready to check …

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FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Nigerian economist Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday to head the World Trade Organization, becoming the first woman and first African to take on the role amid rising protectionism and disagreement over how the body decides cases involving billions in sales and thousands of jobs. Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was named director-general by representatives …

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