Kuwait has accused Iran of launching a failed attack earlier this month on an island where China is helping build a port in the Gulf Arab nation.

Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation.

Police in Pakistan say nine people were killed and more than two dozen others wounded when a bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar.

Ten countries have advanced to the Eurovision Song Contest final after the first semifinal.

President Donald Trump is downplaying differences with President Xi Jinping over the U.S. conflict in Iran as he heads to Beijing for a high-stakes summit with the Chinese leader.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been in power for 40 years.

Israeli lawmakers have approved a bill setting up a special tribunal that would try and have the authority to sentence to death Palestinians convicted of taking part in the 2023 Hamas-led attack that triggered the war in Gaza.

A new wave of gang violence in Haiti has forced hundreds of people to flee their homes, leaving them scattered along a road near the main airport.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez tells journalists that her country has no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was “seriously considering” the move.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on 16 officials accused of helping Russia abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump says the Iran ceasefire is on “life support” after he rejected Tehran’s latest proposal to end the war.

France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, with both sides saying that people had been killed or wounded by drone and artillery strikes carried out in the past 24 hours.

Authorities say the death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan has risen to 14 police officers.

Passengers evacuated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship have started flying home aboard military and government planes after the vessel anchored in the Canary Islands.

Iran has sent its response to the latest U_S_ ceasefire proposal via Pakistani mediators, but U_S_ President Donald Trump quickly rejected it as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”.

Tariqul Islam, a ride-share driver in Bangladesh, faces long fuel lines due to supply disruptions linked to the war in Iran.

Three Israeli drone strikes on vehicles south of Beirut have killed four people.

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon have killed at least five people.

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, has eased tensions over a potential Ukrainian attack on a Red Square parade in Moscow.

A volcanic eruption on a remote Indonesian island has killed three hikers.

An Islamic State-affiliated group has attacked villages in Congo near the Uganda border, killing at least 40 people.

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive over 140 passengers and crew from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged European allies to move beyond rhetoric and take concrete action against Iran, even as he sought to repair strained ties with Italy and the Vatican.