The U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to an Office of Foreign Assets Control entry on the Treasury Department website.

Almost three dozen countries will meet Thursday in an effort to exert diplomatic and political pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping route that has been choked off by the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.

Far-right supporters of a controversial Israeli death penalty law were popping champagne corks as it cleared the Knesset on Monday night, but its passage has sparked a global chorus of condemnation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says talks with Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner showed progress on Ukraine security guarantees, calling for a leaders' summit to advance peace.

Canada’s top trade official plugged his nation as a stable and reliable energy supplier amid the latest jump in oil prices as President Donald Trump said military operations on Iran could escalate, potentially prolonging disruptions to oil flows through the vital Strait of Hormuz.

A weak sale of benchmark bonds in Japan added fuel to the selloff across global markets after US President Donald Trump said he would hit Iran “extremely hard” over the next two to three weeks.

New Zealand and the Cook Islands have signed a defense and security pact, easing over a year of tension between them.

The Iranian-aligned militia, Kataib Hezbollah, is pressing for the release of members detained by the Iraqi government in exchange for freeing the journalist, Shelly Kittleson.