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After U.S. strikes on Iran’s largest nuclear facilities last year, both President Donald Trump and the White House were adamant that the Middle East nation’s nuclear program had been destroyed. “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Obliteration is an accurate term!” Trump wrote on social media. “Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Have Been Obliterated — ...

KYIV, Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday named a young major general, Mykhailo Drapatyi, as the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's military after days of street protests, marking the biggest shake-up in the country's military leadership since its war with Russia began.

Israeli troops have withdrawn from parts of southern Lebanon under a U.S.-mediated ceasefire agreement, which aims to keep Iran-backed Hezbollah away from the Israeli border and end nearly five months of conflict. The move comes after Lebanese President Joseph Aoun traveled to Washington for a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. It was the first between leaders of the two ...

More than 140 people have died or gone missing in several incidents off the coast of Mauritania after trying to cross from West Africa to Europe, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.

OTTAWA, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to intensify trade negotiations after speaking on Tuesday, but warned he would consider all options if the tariffs Trump threatened on Monday go ahead. Trump on Monday unveiled plans for 50% tariffs on a wide range of imports from Canada in retaliation to what he ​described as discriminatory treatment of American-made cars, alcohol and dairy goods.

Wreckage of a Pan Am plane that crashed off Puerto Rico's coast nearly 75 years ago has been found on the ocean floor, search teams scouting for the long-lost aircraft announced on Tuesday. The passenger aircraft, dubbed the Clipper Endeavor, crashed and sank into the Atlantic Ocean on ​April 11, 1952, just minutes after it took off from the island's eastern capital of San Juan.

Andrew and Tristan Tate, “hypermasculine” influencers and former professional kickboxers, remain jailed in Miami as their lawyer fights their possible extradition to the United Kingdom to face charges of rape and human trafficking.

Wildfires burning across Ontario have grown to 1.8 million acres over the weekend Premier Doug Ford said on Monday, as air quality from smoke improved in much of the province ​but remained unhealthy in parts of the U.S. Midwest.

Nicaragua's long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his ​term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife.

Venezuelan authorities said Sunday that the death toll from the powerful twin earthquakes that struck the country’s northern coast nearly a month ago has risen to 5,208, as recovery efforts increasingly shift from emergency relief to the long-term challenges of environmental restoration and debris removal.

BUDAPEST – Hungarian President Tamas Sulyok has signed a constitutional amendment passed by Prime Minister Peter Magyar's ruling Tisza party that ends his term as head of state, Sulyok said in a statement on Saturday. The legislation was part of Magyar's drive to dismantle former Prime Minister Viktor Orban's bastions of power, for which Magyar says he received a strong mandate from voters after ousting the right-wing leader in an April election landslide.

DUBAI – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday they would impose a naval blockade on Saudi Arabia, opening a potential new front against the United States in its war with Iran and raising the threat to global energy supplies and trade beyond the Gulf.

LONDON – Andy Burnham became Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade on Monday, pledging to reshape its politics to deliver a new economic model and revive a nation “fed up” with a revolving door of leaders.

The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East as the U.S. military announced the death of a third U.S. troop in the past two days. A U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed Saturday while trying to conduct a controlled detonation of an unexploded Iranian one-way attack drone, U.S. Central Command said in a social media ...

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in just over a decade on Monday with a number of outstanding questions about who will be in his cabinet and the policy direction he will pursue. In an address from Downing Street, the incoming premier will pledge to deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives, while stressing that his rise to high office is a moment for ...

At least one person was killed in what Ukraine’s foreign minister called the largest ballistic missile barrage aimed at Kyiv since the start of the Russia’s invasion more than four years ago. “Russia unleashed the largest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war — around four dozen — in a brutal terrorist attack on the Ukrainian capital,” Andrii Sybiha said on X. “We need ...

Russia and Ukraine exchanged fresh airstrikes into Saturday, with Kyiv targeting several Russian regions with drones, including a deadly hit on facilities operated by a major online retailer, and Moscow hitting Ukrainian ports. Ukrainian UAVs damaged warehouses operated by Wildberries, one of Russia’s largest e-commerce marketplaces, in the Moscow region and in the town of Kotovsk in the ...