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Iran claims strike on US vessel in Strait of Hormuz as tensions escalate

The purported attack came a day after the US military said forces struck three Iranian oil tankers in response to Navy warships being targeted with ballistic missiles

Iran plans 'exclusion zone' near Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions

The new zone will begin from the line of the US naval blockade, extend toward the Hormuz, and from this side continue into the Persian Gulf, said new head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council

Flights at Jakarta airport cancelled due to Anak Krakatau volcano eruption

Volcanic ash spread across parts of the capital Jakarta and Lampung province on the southern tip of Sumatra island, Indonesia's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation said

Trump's first major midterm money move: A $10 million Texas Senate ad blitz

Republicans in battleground states have been clamouring for the president to open his wallet and spend some of the enormous war chest he has amassed

Putin meets Witkoff, Kushner in Moscow to revive stalled Ukraine talks

Russian President Vladimir Putin met US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow as Washington seeks to revive stalled efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

UK govt condemns masked anti-immigration protesters blocking Dover port

Video posted on social media showed several dozen men in black, their faces covered, standing across a major road near the port

Putin pauses strikes on Kyiv for 72 hours as US envoys visit Russia

Washington's push to end the fighting, now in its fifth year, has lost momentum as US attention has been focused for the last six months on its war with Iran

Iran accuses US of striking oil tanker near key Kharg Island terminal

Kharg Island is Iran's main oil export terminal and a strategically important hub for the country's crude shipments

Witkoff, Kushner arrive in Moscow to revive stalled Ukraine peace push

Washington's push to end the fighting, now in its fifth year, has lost momentum as US attention has been focused for the last six months on its war with Iran

Trump calls Iran conflict 'small potatoes', backs Vance's 'not a war' stand

US President Donald Trump described the Iran conflict as 'small potatoes' while defending Vice President JD Vance's refusal to call the months-long US military campaign a war

Volkswagen board approves plan to cut 50K more jobs, close 4 German plants

Volkswagen's board approved a cost-cutting plan that will cut 100,000 jobs, halve its model lineup and end vehicle production at four German plants

Nick Kyrgios accepts one-month suspension following positive cocaine test

The 31-year-old from Australia had been provisionally suspended since Aug. 4, which was revealed just over two weeks later

Jordan caught in crossfire as Iran targets bases hosting US forces

Jordan faces repeated Iranian drone and missile strikes on military bases hosting US forces as the kingdom maintains its decades-old security alliance with Washington despite rising regional risks

Vance says US-Iran fighting isn't 'war', avoids giving timeline, end date

US Vice President JD Vance rejected describing the six-month-old US-Iran fighting as a war and declined to say whether the conflict would end before the November 3 midterm elections

US hits Cuba with new sanctions targeting oil firm, Raul Castro's grandson

The Trump administration imposed fresh sanctions on Cuba's oil industry supply company and Fidel Castro's grandson, deepening pressure on the island amid an escalating energy crisis

Gloria Steinem, US feminism icon and Ms Magazine co-founder, dies at 92

She died Wednesday at her home in New York City, according to her and her foundation's social media pages.

Uber, Wayve launch London's first robotaxi service with safety driver

Uber and Wayve are launching London's first self-driving taxi service with Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles, though a safety driver will remain behind the wheel to oversee each trip

Nicolas Maduro, wife seek to end drug charges over head-of-state immunity

Maduro, 63, and his wife, Cilia Flores, 69, have been held at a Brooklyn jail since US forces seized them from their Caracas home in a middle-of-the-night raid in January and brought them to New York

US journalist gets 2 years in prison for acting as illegal agent for China

American journalist Thomas Weir Pauken II was sentenced to two years in federal prison for acting as an agent of the Chinese government, the US Justice Department said

Minneapolis shooting: 2 killed, suspect dead; 3 police officers injured

Two people were killed and three Minneapolis police officers injured, including two with gunshot wounds, after a shooting at a downtown apartment building on Wednesday