More than 250,000 people across the two countries have been forced to evacuate, and the European Commission has said that Europe’s firefighting capacity is struggling to keep pace with what is proving to be an intense wildfire year.

Rescue personnel are working to free those trapped in collapsed buildings after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Kumamoto on Tuesday.

Lindsey Graham had one request. The South Carolina Republican asked Zelensky, who was speaking later that day with President Donald Trump, to promote the senator’s bill to harden sanctions on Russia’s wartime economy,

The Israeli military was about to launch a nighttime strike on a group of men in southern Syria when the soldiers noticed the long curls dangling from the temples of their targets. The troops held their fire.

Two young men were publicly hanged in Isfahan's Shahid Alikhani Square, prompting onlookers to protest before Iranian security forces fired tear gas.

The Kenya Wildlife Service said 10 of the elephants showed signs of partial paralysis before dying within two days.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ​said on Wednesday ‌he planned to convene a multi-party meeting ​on the division ​of Cyprus to define ⁠the way forward ​on resolving a conflict ​which has lasted more than half a century.

Behind our uniform and badge, we are also human." It's a strategy far different than that commonly seen south of the Canadian border, where federal immigration authorities spurred on by President Donald Trump use aggressive tactics to intercept and detain people illegally crossing into the United States or remaining there without permission.