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The U.S. conducted a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Saturday, as a weekend of tit-for-tat attacks led both sides to claim violations of the ceasefire underpinning peace talks. The first American strikes on Friday came in response to Tehran’s strike on a container ship on Thursday, but Iran then hit another ship carrying Qatari oil on Saturday. “Iran was given a ...

Argentine President Javier Milei's cabinet chief, Manuel Adorni, resigned on Saturday following a scandal that led to investigations into his spending in recent years.

The off-duty soldiers were in a coffee shop near to Peace Square in Kramatorsk when a Russian glide bomb struck nearby. The owners had taped giant Xs across the windows to stop the regular explosions from shattering them. But the men were showered with glass all the same, a reminder that the fortified city that for years has offered troops a respite from combat has come into range for the ...

BELGRADE, Serbia – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday he would resign within weeks and the country will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections, following 18 months of anti-government protests.

LAGUAIRA, Venezuela – The death toll from Venezuela's devastating twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 on Saturday as foreign rescue teams poured into the country and authorities pressed on with the search for survivors in the hardest-hit coastal areas...

Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem rejected a U.S.-brokered security agreement between Lebanon and Israel on Saturday a day after it was signed, describing it as a surrender to Israel. In the latest example of ongoing hostilities despite repeated ceasefires and ​agreements, Israel launched a drone strike in Lebanon's south on Saturday...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. military said it struck Iran again, hours after a tanker was hit in the Strait of Hormuz, in the worst escalation since the two sides signed an interim peace deal two weeks ago. Each of the warring sides has accused the other of violating the agreement reached two weeks ago to end the four-month-old conflict...

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease’s least-studied strains. The number of recoveries reported by Congolese health authorities almost doubled in a week, rising to 148 on Thursday from 80 on June 18, even as treatment centers admit dozens of patients daily.

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel, Lebanon and the United States reached an initial trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for ending the conflict between the two countries and ultimately reaching a peace settlement, a senior Israeli official said Friday. Israel will maintain a “security zone” along the boundaries of the yellow line, which marks a seized territory that stretches some ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela was approaching 1,000 Friday as relief workers from across the globe arrived to search for survivors trapped in the rubble and provide desperately needed assistance to a reeling nation. “Time is the enemy,” said Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony C. Marrone. “We want to immediately begin trying to locate people who are ...

U.S. forces launched airstrikes against Iranian missile and drone storage locations Friday in what Central Command called a “powerful response” to “unwarranted aggression” by Iran with its Thursday attack on a commercial ship exiting the Strait of Hormuz.

The United States has launched a massive response to Venezuela’s earthquake disaster, but before aid can flow in at full scale, officials say a critical obstacle must be overcome: repairing the country’s heavily damaged airports to allow large military cargo planes to land.

The earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday have become the first major political test for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, with the disaster quickly evolving into a contest over competence.

The nation’s highest court paved the way for President Donald Trump to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria fleeing instability and violence in their home countries in a case about their deportation protections under temporary protected status.

The death toll from the powerful double earthquake that struck Venezuela’s Caribbean coast on Wednesday has climbed to at least 164, with more than 970 people injured, as rescue crews continue searching through collapsed buildings amid growing fears that the final number of victims could rise significantly.

A strong earthquake shook north-central Venezuela on Wednesday afternoon, west of the capital Caracas, with residents in neighboring Colombia also reporting feeling tremors. 

The deputy leader of Russia's Yabloko party, which opposes the war in Ukraine, was convicted on Wednesday of spreading lies about the Russian army and jailed for seven years, in a verdict he said showed public dissent had become illegal.