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The United States’ shaky ceasefire with Iran is under intense pressure ahead of scheduled diplomatic talks in Islamabad, as shipping remains effectively blocked through the Strait of Hormuz and Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade strikes.

Ukraine’s top negotiator with Russia said he sees progress toward a potential peace deal with the Kremlin, adding that a resolution to the war may not take long to achieve.

The Pentagon and the Vatican denied allegations of a rift following Pope Leo XIV’s criticism of the Trump administration and a news report of a contentious meeting between a papal envoy and a top U.S. defense official.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has announced a temporary ceasefire in the Ukraine war to mark Orthodox Easter from late Saturday to Sunday.

The U.S. wants specific commitments from European allies on their pledge to help secure the Strait of Hormuz after the fighting in Iran stops, requesting that countries present concrete plans to ensure navigation through the waterway within days, according to a senior NATO official.

President Donald Trump, upset at NATO allies' failure to help secure the Strait of Hormuz and angry that his plans to acquire Greenland have not moved forward, has discussed with advisers the option of ​removing some U.S. troops from Europe, a senior White House official told Reuters on Thursday.

The U.K. warned Vladimir Putin against damaging Britain’s undersea cables and pipelines after a month-long operation to track three Russian submarines in nearby waters.

The Trump administration and Iranian leaders both have claimed victory in the temporarily paused U.S.-Israel war on Iran even as details of the two-week ceasefire are being disputed. So who actually blinked first and who really came out on top?

The White House announced the U.S. would hold direct talks with Iran even as continued fighting in the Middle East, punctuated by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, threatened to derail the fragile ceasefire in the six-week conflict.

The White House struggled Wednesday to explain and defend President Donald Trump’s threat to end Iranian civilization, with his top spokesperson crediting his tough talk with fostering a fragile two-week ceasefire deal already being tested in the Strait of Hormuz and Lebanon.

The U.S. and Iran said they are prepared to hold talks to end the war in the Middle East during a proposed two-week pause in hostilities, even as Israeli strikes on Lebanon threatened to derail the fragile truce.

President Donald Trump believes NATO was "tested and they failed" during the Iran war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Wednesday, just hours before Trump was due to meet with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired an unidentified projectile Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, just days after South Korean President Lee Jae Myung expressed regret over an incident involving drones that crossed the border into the North’s airspace. Pyongyang launched at least one projectile toward waters off its east coast, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Further details ...

The Trump administration has been working through a phased strategy to stabilize Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year, prioritizing security and economic recovery under interim leader Delcy Rodríguez as Washington gradually deepens engagement with Caracas. The approach, described in recent remarks by a senior U.S. defense official at a Miami forum, envisions a ...

Preliminary findings in a United Nations probe into the deaths of three Indonesian peacekeepers in Lebanon last month show one was killed by an Israeli tank projectile and two others by an improvised explosive device most likely placed by Hezbollah, the U.N. said on Tuesday.

Iran-aligned Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah said on Tuesday, April 7, that it would release abducted U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson, reported Reuters, the New York Times and ​the Associated Press. It added that she must leave Iraq immediately.

President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization will die tonight" as Iran showed no sign of complying with his ultimatum to open the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening.

Climate change, pollution and decades of overuse have pushed the world into a state of “water bankruptcy,” leaving essential sources of fresh water irreparably damaged and billions of people without enough water to meet their basic needs, U.N. experts declared Tuesday.

As President Donald Trump prepared to hold a White House news conference to celebrate the rescue of the crew of a F-15E fighter shot down in Iran, his escalating threats to bomb power plants and bridges suggested rising frustration that Tehran has shown no willingness to surrender after more than five weeks of an increasingly expensive, dangerous and politically unpopular war.