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The White House announced the U.S. would hold direct talks with Iran even as continued fighting in the Middle East, punctuated by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire in the six-week conflict.

The White House struggled Wednesday to explain and defend President Donald Trump’s threat to end Iranian civilization, with his top spokesperson crediting his tough talk with fostering a fragile two-week ceasefire deal already being tested in the Strait of Hormuz and Lebanon.

The U.S. and Iran said they are prepared to hold talks to end the war in the Middle East during a proposed two-week pause in hostilities, even as Israeli strikes on Lebanon threatened to derail the fragile truce.

President Donald Trump believes NATO was "tested and they failed" during the Iran war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, just hours before Trump was due to meet with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired an unidentified projectile Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, just days after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret over an incident involving drones that crossed the border into the North’s airspace. Pyongyang launched at least one projectile toward waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Further details ...

The Trump administration has been working through a phased strategy to stabilize Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, prioritizing security and economic recovery under interim leader Delcy Rodríguez as Washington gradually deepens engagement with Caracas. The approach, described in recent remarks by a senior U.S. defense official at a Miami forum, envisions a ...

Preliminary findings in a United Nations probe into the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers in Lebanon last month show one was killed by an Israeli tank projectile and two others by an improvised explosive device most likely placed by Hezbollah, the U.N. said on Tuesday.

Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah said on Tuesday, April 7, that it would release abducted U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, reported Reuters, the New York Times and ​the Associated Press. It added that she must leave Iraq immediately.

President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as Iran showed no sign of complying with his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening.

Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” leaving essential sources of fresh water irreparably damaged and billions of people without enough water to meet their basic needs, U.N. experts declared Tuesday.

As President Donald Trump prepared to hold a White House news conference to celebrate the rescue of the crew of a F-15E fighter shot down in Iran, his escalating threats to bomb power plants and bridges suggested rising frustration that Tehran has shown no willingness to surrender after more than five weeks of an increasingly expensive, dangerous and politically unpopular war.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will join several African states willing to accept third-country nationals deported from the U.S. The program will see deportees arriving in the central African country from this month, the government said in a statement on Sunday. The U.S. will cover all the costs, it said. “This stay is not intended to become a mechanism for permanent settlement on national ...

An Israeli airstrike on Kfarhata, a village in south Lebanon, killed seven people on Sunday, including a 4-year-old child, Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement.

The royal family celebrated Easter weeks after turmoil for the monarchy. King Charles III and Queen Camilla, as well as Prince William, Princess Kate and their three children, attended the annual Easter church service at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, weeks after ​Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest. Mountbatten-Windsor, his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, and their daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie skipped the service after attending in 2025. The king's other siblings, Princess Anne and ⁠Prince Edward, were in attendance with their families.

Ukraine and Syria pledged greater security cooperation in talks on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as Kyiv seeks to promote its military expertise across the region following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.

BUDAPEST – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called an emergency defense council meeting on Sunday after powerful explosives were found near a pipeline in Serbia that carries Russian gas to the country.