Some 35,000 US military personnel are stationed in Germany

UN chief Guterres calls Hormuz closure ‘strangling the global economy’

The conflict has aggravated Iran's dire economic problems, risking calamity after the war

Activated for around 20 minutes to counter small aircraft and reconnaissance drones, reports Iranian media

The US Justice Department on Wednesday charged the governor of the Mexican state of Sinaloa and other officials with drug trafficking.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute yesterday announced that 287 nominations had been submitted for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Nearly 60 nations hailed progress in the fight to exit fossil fuels as a breakaway conference wrapped up in Colombia on Wednesday -- but now face the harder work of turning words into action.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called for King Charles to “return” the prized Koh-i-Noor diamond, which the British Empire took from the Indian subcontinent in the 1800s, on the third day of the monarch’s state visit on Wednesday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with US counterpart Donald Trump, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Wednesday, adding the two leaders discussed the Middle East war and Ukraine.

Israeli strikes killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said, as Hamas leaders met mediators in Cairo to discuss ways to reinvigorate a fragile six-month-old US-brokered truce.

Organisers of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla yesterday said Israel’s army had “kidnapped” 211 activists, including a Paris city councillor, in a raid in international waters off Greece.

Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in a quarter of a century, Reporters Without Borders warned yesterday.

Iran’s supreme leader yesterday declared that the United States had suffered a shameful defeat, defiantly rejecting a warning from President Donald Trump that an economically punishing US naval blockade could be enforced for months to come.

Two months into the war that started with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, the vital sea channel remains closed

It's unclear whether Mamdani followed through and brought up the contentious subject with Charles when the two met

Key opposition-held states like West Bengal and Tamil Nadu remain tightly watched

The average score for all countries and territories worldwide has never been so low it says

Operation lasted over eight hours under challenging conditions

Analysts warn new measures could undercut US push to reduce reliance on Chinese supply chains

Move seen as symbolic as critics question impact on Suu Kyi’s prolonged detention