Iran warned on Sunday that a renewed war with the United States could last longer than the previous conflict, as President Donald Trump suggested Washington still had targets to strike. Tehran threatened retaliation without geographical limits while diplomatic efforts continued to avert a fresh escalation ahead of Tuesday's US midterm elections.
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Four United States citizens were among the at least 69 people who were killed when a high-speed train slammed into the rear of another train in central Spain last week, officials said Sunday. The center, which had already announced the deaths of a French and Portuguese citizen as well as 54 Spaniards, said that all but three of the victims had been identified. "As the contacted families have expressed their wish to travel to Spain to carry out in-person identification, we are awaiting their arrival in the country," the statement said, AFP reported.
In the home stretch of an expensive, bruising, and consequential Senate race, we went to speak to both candidates – and see them in action. The son of Egyptian immigrants, Abdul El-Dayed won the Democratic primary against a more centrist rival by a sliver of a percentage point. But he has big ambitions – not just to beat the Republican party, but to remake his own. After a Rhodes Scholarship and a medical degree from Columbia University, El-Sayed went straight into public health administration and then politics.
Prosecutors in France have launched an attempted murder investigation after petrol bombs were thrown at police during unrest, French media reported. An image of a police officer with his leg on fire during a clash with protesters in Paris on Saturday has prompted outrage and follows weeks of street protests in France that have also seen demonstrators injured. The officer, who suffered burns to his ankle and minor injures to his hand, told French newspaper Le Figaro it was a "particularly sophisticated" incendiary device.
Earlier, President Trump predicted the war with Iran is "going to end soon," without offering any details, as Qatari mediators return to Tehran to push for a deal.