The World Health Organization says a strike hit a hospital last week in Sudan’s western Darfur region and killed at least 64 people.

Banksy’s mystique is taking a hit after a report about his real name.

The United States and Iran are threatening to target critical infrastructure as the war in the Middle East puts lives and livelihoods at risk.

President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. will “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, prompting Tehran to say it would respond to any such strike with attacks on U.S. and Israeli energy and infrastructure assets.

Early results of Slovenia’s highly contested parliamentary election show governing liberals and opposition right-wing populists neck and neck, heralding a period of political uncertainty in the small European Union country.

Japan says one of two detained Japanese nationals in Iran has returned home in good health after being released.

Cuba is again without electricity as power grid has collapsed for a third time this month.

A major protest in Prague has targeted Prime Minister Andrej Babiš who the protesters say threatens democracy in the Czech Republic.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a high-stakes decision on Israel’s next election as war rages on multiple fronts.

High level officials usually shy away from public discussion of Japan’s 1941 sneak attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor.

Russia and Ukraine have traded deadly strikes as Ukraine pushes the U.S. to restart stalled peace talks.

Authorities in nearly a dozen regions across Russian have refused to authorize protests in recent weeks over internet censorship and the blocking of Telegram, a popular messaging app.

Iranians abroad and in Tehran are approaching Persian new year with grief and fear as war and a crackdown cut them off from loved ones.

Iran is threatening recreational and tourist sites worldwide and insisting it is still building missiles three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East.

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv.

Residents in the Mexican central state of Guerrero are setting up self-defense patrols to keep a powerful cartel out of their mountain towns.

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring.

Israel hit the Iranian capital Tehran with airstrikes Friday, with activists reporting sounds of strikes around the city.

European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the Middle East as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the war.

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year.

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the U.S. would “massively blow up the entirety” of the world’s largest gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again.

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war.

The latest World Happiness Report 2026 says that heavy social media use has contributed to a stark decline in well-being among young people.

The U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz into the crosshairs of yet another geopolitical conflict.