Iran’s stance on the Strait of Hormuz and Donald Trump’s comments on gasoline costs have put a vital shipping route and U.S. consumers in the same tense debate.

The president’s suggestion about control of the Strait of Hormuz prompted tough talk from an Iranian official alleging “fanciful delusions.” Nearly six months after launching Operation Epic […]

Jefferson Kelly's 20-year-old son has been on board the ship which is at the center of a debate around US Navy conditions.

The U.S Geological Survey said the quake hit Indonesia's Flores region with a depth of 10 kilometers at 5:58 a.m. local time.

Debris littered the southern Lebanese village of Ansar on Saturday (August 15) after an Israeli dawn air strike killed seven people, according to Lebanon's state news agency.

An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed seven people early Saturday, one of the deadliest attacks since a precarious truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on June 20. State-run National News Agency said the airstrike targeted a home on the edge of the village of Ansar and that paramedics were still searching through the rubble.

An Israeli air strike has killed seven people in southern Lebanon, the nation's prime minister has said, in one of the deadliest attacks since an agreement aimed at reducing hostilities was announced in June.

An Israeli airstrike killed seven people in Lebanon on Saturday, one of the deadliest since a shaky truce between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect on June 20. Meanwhile, two vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.

On the anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan and the Taliban taking control, CNN’s Isobel Yeung looks at what has changed in those five years.

Outside the former U.S. embassy in Kabul, armoured Taliban vehicles took part in a parade to mark five years in power on Saturday (August 15). They displayed flags and banners and celebrated what the government described as “victory day” from Western domination.

When the Taliban returned to power in 2021 amid the withdrawal of the U.S. and its allies, they promised to govern more liberally than they had in the ​late 1990s and early 2000

The Taliban have Afghanistan in a chokehold that spares no one. But threats are starting to crack their veneer of stability and control.

Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, regaining a seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election

After weeks of facing accusations that he failed to properly declare millions of pounds received ​from a wealthy backer, Farage abruptly resigned ⁠from parliament ⁠last month to ⁠seek ​a new mandate in a "people against the establishment" ​election in the ⁠southern seaside resort of Clacton.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage celebrates a ‘resounding victory’ in Clacton, touting his support and taking aim at Britain’s political establishment. (Reuters.)

Farage won the by-election but his main rival, Count Binface, a comedian dressed as a trash can, took more than a quarter of the vote Reform UK leader Nigel Farage won his self-triggered by-election in southern England on Friday,

The Latvian military said a drone that entered the country's airspace overnight was shot down by NATO Baltic Air Policing jets.

NATO jets shot down a drone that flew into Latvia’s eastern air space, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.

NATO said Friday its fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, the latest incursion along the military alliance's eastern flank bordering Russia. This was the second time that

NATO fighters shot down a foreign drone over Latvia as Finland briefly restricted airspace and sea areas amid heightened Baltic security concerns.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings and homes as well as causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes.

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At least five people have died after a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia. Tremors hit eastern Indonesia in the early hours on Saturday, causing buildings to be collapsed into dust and rubble.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake has struck off Indonesia’s coast. The initial quake was followed by several aftershocks, including a magnitude 5.9 tremor 15 minutes later. The German Research Centre for Geosciences recorded the quakes at a depth of about 30 kilometres,