The Persian Strait Gulf Authority said "the Strait of Hormuz remains blocked and will not be reopened until Iran's conditions are accepted."

A baby was pulled alive from the rubble of the massive Colombia earthquake, as search and rescue operations enter a third day.

Crews rescued 172 people and recovered the body of a passenger from a ferry that caught fire in rough seas Wednesday near the Indonesian tourist island of Bali, authorities said. The fire started at about 4:15 a.

Putin threatened to seize European vessels from the Russian Black Sea to the Pacific as Ukraine's drone attack crippled Novorossiysk grain terminals.

A Pentagon review has found that U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians.

Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country, the United Nations said Wednesday, The Taliban’s General Directorate of Intelligence detained the two staffers in the western city of Herat on Sunday,

Survivors have described a tragic ferry disaster on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, where at least 44 people have died. The overloaded ferry capsized on Tuesday amid strong waves. Witnesses say

Prime Minister Andy Burnham is holding an emergency government meeting on the UK’s latest heat wave as the country grapples with widespread drought and proliferating wildfires.