Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over the scheduling of a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that’s expected to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride
December 10, 2025
A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen
December 10, 2025
The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions
December 09, 2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month
December 09, 2025
Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem and replace UN flag with Israeli flag, head of the agency says
December 08, 2025
An official says the airspace over Yemen was briefly closed as tensions rose in the south of the country
December 08, 2025
Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem
December 08, 2025
Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States
December 08, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon
December 07, 2025
Trump administration set to deport more Iranians back to their home country
December 07, 2025
Prosecutors in Istanbul have issued arrest warrants for dozens of soccer players and officials in relation to a betting scandal that has shaken Turkey
December 05, 2025
At least four countries have announced they are pulling out of next year’s Eurovision Song Contest
December 04, 2025
Israeli and Thai officials say remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel were those of a Thai agricultural worker killed during the attack that started the war two years ago
December 04, 2025
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth risked compromising sensitive military information, which could have endangered American troops and mission objectives, when he used Signal in March of this year to share highly-sensitive attack plans targeting Houthi rebels in Yemen, according to four sources familiar with the contents of a classified Inspector General report. CNN's Zachary Cohen reports.
December 03, 2025
The crew of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea in July after being attacked by Yemen's Houthis, have been released, an official with the
December 03, 2025
Some New York lawmakers want to ban protests outside houses of worship after pro-Palestinian demonstration
December 03, 2025
Israel says it launched an airstrike in southern Gaza in retaliation for an attack by militants earlier in the day that wounded five Israeli soldiers
December 03, 2025
The French government on Wednesday criticized the decision by an Algerian court to uphold a seven-year jail sentence for French journalist Christophe Gleizes despite its
December 03, 2025
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is embracing his love for travel in his final month in office
December 03, 2025
The confusion still swirling in Washington over President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for Ukraine has made at least one thing clear:
December 03, 2025
There was something "fundamentally wrong" with how Israel conducted its military operation in the Gaza Strip and there are "strong reasons to believe"
December 03, 2025
Israel received a body that Hamas said was one of the last two deceased hostages in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as
December 03, 2025
A Libyan war crimes suspect who is accused of overseeing a notorious prison, where inmates were routinely tortured and sometimes sexually abused,
December 03, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition skipped a parliamentary vote on Wednesday endorsing U.S.
December 03, 2025
Israel and Lebanon sent civilian envoys to a military committee monitoring their ceasefire, top officials from both said on
December 03, 2025
Turkey demanded an explanation from Iraqi Kurdish officials after former leader Masoud Barzani arrived in a mainly Kurdish Turkish border region last weekend surrounded by
December 03, 2025
The Sudanese paramilitary force that besieged then overran a city in Darfur in late October is systematically holding trapped
December 03, 2025
How Trump is intensifying his crackdown on every form of immigration to the US
December 03, 2025
Gaza's main gateway will open in the next few days, Israel said on Wednesday, allowing thousands of Palestinians who are in
December 03, 2025
Amnesty International has accused Sudan's Rapid Support Forces of committing war crimes in Darfur
December 03, 2025
The head of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said on Friday it retained the right to respond to Israel's killing days ago of its top military commander and left open the possibility
November 28, 2025
Ukraine has used Sea Baby naval drones to strike two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea
November 29, 2025
Police in Azerbaijan conducted a search on Saturday at the home of Ali Karimli, the leader of one of the country's main opposition parties, amid a widening probe into a
November 29, 2025
Tunisian police arrested prominent opposition figure Chaima Issa at a protest in the capital Tunis on Saturday to enforce a 20-year prison sentence, her
November 29, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque, emphasizing Christian unity during his trip to Turkey
November 29, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the country's president on Sunday for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial,
November 30, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has doubled down on the Holy See’s insistence on a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
November 30, 2025
A court in Azerbaijan on Monday ordered a key opposition figure to be held in pre-trial detention until mid-February following his arrest on charges of plotting to overthrow
December 01, 2025
U.S.
December 01, 2025
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday that it seized full control of Babanusa, a transport junction in the country's oil-producing south, though its
December 01, 2025
Palestinians in the West Bank are living in fear of more attacks by armed Israeli settlers
December 02, 2025
Exxon Mobil has approached the Iraqi oil ministry to express its interest in buying Russian firm Lukoil's majority stake in the giant West Qurna 2 oilfield, five Iraqi official
December 02, 2025
Afghanistan's Taliban administration said it assured neighbouring Tajikistan on Tuesday it was ready to tighten border security and conduct joint investigations, after attacks
December 02, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday a deal with Syria is possible and he expects Syrian authorities to establish a demilitarised buffer zone from Damascus to
December 02, 2025
Two children were gathering firewood for their father. They were killed by an Israeli drone
December 02, 2025
Israeli forces killed a pair of Palestinian men in the occupied West Bank after they appeared to surrender to troops, drawing Palestinian accusations that the men were executed “in cold blood.”
November 27, 2025
Israeli military kills two men after they appeared to surrender during operation in West Bank
November 27, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has joined Orthodox patriarchs and ecumenical leaders in Turkey to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
November 28, 2025
Thirteen people were killed in an Israeli raid in southern Syria on Friday, Syrian state media reported, with Damascus accusing Israel of a "criminal attack" in a village
November 28, 2025
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Israel on December 6 and 7 for his first official visit since taking office, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.
November 28, 2025
A maritime demarcation deal signed between Lebanon and Cyprus violates the rights of Turkish Cypriots on the island and is therefore unacceptable, Turkey said on Thursday.
November 27, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan praised Pope Leo's stance on the Palestinian issue after meeting him in Ankara on Thursday, and said he hoped his first overseas visit as Catholic
November 27, 2025
Australia has listed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a state sponsor of terrorism, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Thursday, following an intelligence assessment that
November 27, 2025
President Donald Trump's approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war mirrors his tactics in the Israel-Hamas conflict
November 26, 2025
A senior Kremlin official confirms that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is set to visit Moscow next week
November 26, 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s handling of protest outside synagogue further worries NYC Jewish leaders
November 26, 2025
After 26 years in a Turkish prison, Abdullah Ocalan is carving out a key role for himself as Ankara tries to end his outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party's four-decade insurgency.
November 26, 2025
Israel identifies deceased hostage returned by Hamas as Dror Or. Two more hostage bodies remain in Gaza
November 26, 2025
Turkey's spy chief met with his Egyptian counterpart and Qatar's foreign minister in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss transitioning to the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal and
November 25, 2025
Syrian security forces used gunfire on Tuesday to break up two rival groups of demonstrators in the coastal town of Latakia, heartland of the country's Alawite minority,
November 25, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was ready to advance a U.S.-backed framework for ending the war with Russia and
November 25, 2025
Israel says it has received human remains that Palestinian militants handed over to the Red Cross, but it is not immediately clear if they are one of three hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip
November 25, 2025
Children and families in Gaza are scooping muddy water from their tents and trying to protect the few belongings that remain after two years of war
November 25, 2025
Afghanistan’s Taliban government has accused Pakistan of launching overnight strikes in three eastern provinces, killing 10 civilians
November 25, 2025
The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that at least 127 civilians had been killed in Lebanon in strikes by the Israel military since a ceasefire nearly a year ago, and called
November 25, 2025
Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic adviser to the United Arab Emirates' president, said on Tuesday the UAE welcomed U.S. efforts to end war in Sudan and condemned "atrocities"
November 25, 2025
Tensions flared between Afghanistan and Pakistan on Tuesday as the Taliban accused Pakistani forces of air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, which killed 9 children
November 25, 2025
Pope Leo will embark on his first trip outside Italy on Thursday, travelling to Turkey and Lebanon.
November 25, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's peace plan needs improvement to make it acceptable for Ukraine and Europe, French President Emmanuel Macron told RTL radio on Tuesday.
November 25, 2025
U.S.
November 24, 2025
Controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to close aid effort
November 24, 2025
Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in Gaza near the line demarcating areas of Israeli control on Monday, underlining the
November 24, 2025
A delegation from a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group paid their first visit to its jailed
November 24, 2025
Fire teams in Israel rescued a teenager who was stuck dangling for seven hours from a crane hanging 36 stories high above Jerusalem
November 24, 2025
France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot will hold talks with his Iranian counterpart in Paris on November 26 to discuss bilateral and regional issues as well as Iran's contested
November 24, 2025
In 1946, young men in khaki shirts marched through Atlanta performing Nazi salutes and promising racial vengeance. They lasted 10 months. Today’s fascists aren’t as easily banished.
November 24, 2025
Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut on Sunday, the Israeli military said, despite a U.S.-brokered
November 23, 2025
Israel has struck Lebanon’s capital for the first time since June, saying it killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff and warning the Iran-backed militant group not to rearm and rebuild
November 23, 2025
Israel says Hezbollah chief of staff killed in first strike on Beirut in months
November 23, 2025
Israel's military chief on Sunday dismissed several senior military personnel and reprimanded others over their roles in the
November 23, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would have a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss peace efforts in Ukraine, adding that he would also
November 23, 2025
A Houthi-controlled court in Yemen has sentenced 17 people to death for allegedly spying for foreign governments
November 23, 2025
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on Oct. 10
November 22, 2025
Thousands of Tunisians marched in the capital on Saturday in a protest against “injustice and repression”, accusing President Kais Saied of cementing one-man rule by
November 22, 2025
Zelensky warns of ‘difficult moment in history’ after Trump gives Ukraine days to accept his plan to end war
November 21, 2025
A Democratic lawmaker who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term urged the White House on Friday to release a transcript of
November 21, 2025
Turkish lawmakers overseeing the disarmament of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group decided on Friday to pay their first visit to its jailed leader Abdullah
November 21, 2025
A Turkish parliamentary committee has agreed to meet with Kurdish militant leader Abdullah Ocalan at his prison island
November 21, 2025
Israel’s prime minister has met with top security officials to assess a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank
November 21, 2025
The International Committee of the Red Cross will reduce its 2026 budget by nearly a fifth to 1.8 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) and cut 2,900 jobs, it said in a
November 21, 2025
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they’re changing the voting system of the popular musical extravaganza to ensure fairness
November 21, 2025
Iran’s state media has reported that the foreign ministry called a resolution by the U.N. atomic watchdog’s board of governors “anti-Iranian” and threatened unspecified retaliatory actions
November 21, 2025
Israeli settlers torch scrapyard in West Bank arson attack as Netanyahu calls meeting on rising extremist violence
November 20, 2025
Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site and settlers have established a new outpost there, even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian territory
November 20, 2025
A Florida retiree jailed in Saudi Arabia for social media posts critical of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has returned to the United States after four years of detention and travel restrictions
November 20, 2025
Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps amounts to war crimes, HRW alleges
November 20, 2025
Israeli strikes across Gaza over a roughly 12-hour period have resulted in the deaths of 33 people
November 20, 2025
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed in southern Syria, drawing strong condemnation from the government in Damascus, which denounced the trip as a
November 20, 2025
Israel expects to maintain access to more advanced U.S. weaponry, a government spokesperson said on Thursday when asked about Washington's plan to sell F-35 warplanes to Saudi
November 20, 2025
Lebanon's authorities say the country's most wanted drug trafficker has been arrested after years on the run
November 20, 2025
More than 60 delegations have met in Brussels to discuss reconstruction and governance in Gaza, focusing on reforming the Palestinian Authority
November 20, 2025
Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 32 Palestinians, as Hamas warns of ‘dangerous escalation’
November 19, 2025
The rival leaders of ethnically split Cyprus said they were ready to meet the United Nations Secretary-General to discuss the potential for relaunching long-stalled peace talks, the U.N.
November 20, 2025
Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on
November 20, 2025
The U.S. has signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that
November 19, 2025
President Donald Trump says he's turning his attention to helping find an end to the brutal civil war in Sudan
November 19, 2025
The Israeli military has carried out airstrikes in southern Lebanon, targeting what it claims are Hezbollah weapons storage facilities
November 19, 2025
The president of Cyprus says some of the estimated 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in waters off the island nation could reach European markets as soon as 2027
November 19, 2025
The United Nations is pushing to gain access to al-Fashir, the famine-stricken city in Darfur where witnesses have reported mass reprisals since a takeover by
November 19, 2025
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to seize around 40 Dubai apartments and luxury villas suspected of being linked to drug trafficking in France, French Justice Minister Gerald
November 19, 2025
Exclusive: Iran open to resuming nuclear talks with the US but won’t shift its conditions, supreme leader’s adviser says
November 19, 2025
State media and the Health Ministry in Lebanon say that an Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon has killed 13 people and wounded others
November 18, 2025
Europe's top three powers and the U.S. have submitted a draft resolution to this week's meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors
November 18, 2025
A federal court on Tuesday blocked Texas from using a new congressional map intended to flip several Democratic-held U.S.
November 18, 2025
Trump claims slain journalist Khashoggi was ‘extremely controversial,’ defends Saudi crown prince
November 18, 2025
CNN's Jim Sciutto speaks with Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, the widow of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, about President Donald Trump welcoming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud for his first visit to the US since her husband's killing. A CIA assessment released afterward found the prince had likely ordered the assassination, though he has long denied any involvement.
November 16, 2025
Palestinian attackers killed an Israeli man and wounded three other people in a car-ramming and stabbing in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday before soldiers shot dead the
November 18, 2025
Nadra Mohamed Ahmed fled her hometown in Sudan's el-Fasher amid conflict while seven months pregnant
November 18, 2025
Global refining margins have hit multi-year highs in November due to sanctions on Russia, refinery outages and
November 18, 2025
At least one Israeli killed and three injured after attack at West Bank junction
November 18, 2025
Trump’s plan for Gaza endorsed by UN Security Council
November 17, 2025
The UN Security Council on Monday voted to adopt a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza and authorizing an
November 17, 2025
The U.S.-Saudi Arabia investment forum to take place in Washington during the visit of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week is expected to include
November 17, 2025
Hamas rejected the United Nations Security Council passing a U.S.-drafted resolution endorsing U.S.
November 17, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he will urgently convene cabinet ministers to ensure Israelis behind the latest attacks against
November 17, 2025
Israeli settlers torch Palestinian vehicles and homes in West Bank village
November 17, 2025
A report by an Israeli human rights group says at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war in Gaza began
November 17, 2025
His family say he was a fisherman. The Saudis say he smuggled drugs. He was one of hundreds executed this year
November 17, 2025
A report by an Israeli human rights group says at least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since the war in Gaza began
November 17, 2025
Officer shot, killed serving warrant; suspect charged
November 16, 2025
The war in Gaza is over, but the fight in Israel for accountability has barely begun
November 16, 2025
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel remained opposed to a Palestinian state after protests by far-right coalition allies over a U.S.-backed statement
November 16, 2025
President Donald Trump has made clear how much he wants to see Saudi Arabia and Israel normalize relations
November 16, 2025
At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, the Libyan Red Crescent said on Saturday.
November 15, 2025
Rory McIlroy is closing in on a fourth straight Race to Dubai title
November 15, 2025
Weeks into the Gaza ceasefire, scores of Hamas fighters remain stuck in tunnels under Gaza
November 15, 2025
The United States has stepped up calls for U.N. consensus on its plan for Gaza as Russia is circulating a rival proposal
November 14, 2025
State media report that rockets have hit a home in Syria's capital, Damascus, wounding several people and causing damage
November 14, 2025
A survey conducted by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon last month found that a wall built by the Israeli military crosses the Blue Line, the de facto border, a U.N
November 14, 2025
South Africa granted entry to 130 Palestinians without travel papers after initially barring them but said it will examine accusations that an unregistered
November 14, 2025
Emails released by the House Oversight Committee reveal how Jeffrey Epstein maintained connections with influential figures despite his 2008 guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl
November 14, 2025
Palestinians in a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank held weekly communal prayers on Friday after clearing insulting graffiti, broken glass and burn marks from a mosque
November 14, 2025
Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety
November 14, 2025
European Union foreign ministers will discuss next week a proposal for the bloc to take the lead in training 3,000 Palestinian police officers with the aim of later
November 14, 2025
Iran seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker as it traveled through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Friday
November 14, 2025
Families of some victims of two Boeing 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people asked a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to reverse a judge's decision to
November 13, 2025
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called for the United Nations to impose "appropriate measures" against the United States and Israel over military strikes in June
November 13, 2025
Canada's domestic spy agency this year foiled potentially lethal threats by Iran directed against people whom Tehran sees as enemies, the agency's head said in a rare speech on
November 13, 2025
Saudi Arabia plans imminently to boost commercial ties with Lebanon after Lebanese authorities demonstrated "efficacy" in curbing drug smuggling to the kingdom over
November 13, 2025
Israel has received the body of deceased hostage Meny Godard from Palestinian militants in Gaza via the Red Cross, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Thursday.
November 13, 2025
Syria’s foreign minister has reopened the country’s embassy in London after more than a decade
November 13, 2025
British pro-Palestinian political commentator Sami Hamdi landed back in London on Thursday after being released from the United States, where he spent more than two weeks in
November 13, 2025
A senior adviser to the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces says U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s comments calling for a halt to the flow of military support coming to the RSF from abroad may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire
November 13, 2025
The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan's civil war is shifting its focus eastward after consolidating its grip over Darfur last month, reigniting violence and
November 13, 2025
Pakistan has deployed army and paramilitary forces to protect Sri Lanka's cricket team after a deadly suicide bombing in Islamabad raised security concerns during
November 13, 2025
Israel's president says authorities must take decisive action to stop “shocking and serious” Jewish settler violence against Palestinian civilians and Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank
November 12, 2025
Investigators believe the theft of ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum was likely the work of an individual and not an organized gang
November 12, 2025
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has granted a pardon to French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal following a request from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the
November 12, 2025
India's government confirmed on Wednesday that it was treating a car blast that killed eight people and wounded at least 20 others in Delhi as a "
November 12, 2025
The International Atomic Energy Agency has been unable to verify Iran's near weapons-grade uranium stockpile since Israel struck its nuclear sites in June
November 12, 2025
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from U.S.
November 12, 2025
Trump pens letter asking Israeli president to pardon Netanyahu in corruption trial
November 12, 2025
Dozens of Israeli settlers launch arson attack in West Bank as attacks against Palestinians surge
November 11, 2025
Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, who played a leading role in negotiations during the Gaza war and was a close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
November 11, 2025
British political commentator Sami Hamdi plans to leave the U.S. after spending over two weeks in immigration detention
November 11, 2025
France will help the Palestinian Authority draft a constitution for a future state, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in
November 11, 2025
A Turkish C-130 military cargo plane with at least 20 personnel on board crashed in Georgia on Tuesday after taking off from Azerbaijan but the number of casualties
November 11, 2025
The Israeli military accused Lebanese armed group Hezbollah on Tuesday of seeking to rebuild its combat abilities in south Lebanon to the point of threatening Israel's security
November 11, 2025
Six ancient statues have been stolen from the National Museum of Damascus, which is one of the Middle East's oldest cultural institutions and houses a collection showing Syria's
November 11, 2025
Dispatch audio references possible overdose at scene of Hayden Panettiere’s death
Concerns about the New World screwworm have put Texas pet adoptions on hold
Personal bankruptcy filings are soaring in 2026, signaling growing economic distress
Israel's deadly Gaza strikes cast more doubt on ceasefire progress days after Kushner visit
Tourist helicopter crashes in Kenya, police say seven killed
Ukraine's parliament approves Yevhenii Khmara as new defence minister
Nearly 1 in 4 students are chronically absent from school – kids who feel happy and safe are less likely to miss class
Renée Richards faults herself
Former Wimbledon finalist Nick Kyrgios suspended after positive test for cocaine