Trump appears keen to reach a deal to end the war, which is unpopular with Americans, as he deploys both pressure and diplomacy, analysts say.

The U.S. government on Thursday issued new sanctions aimed at depriving the Cuban government and military of "access to illicit assets."

Twenty hikers were on the slopes when disaster struck, North Halmahera police chief Erlichson Pasaribu told reporters at a volcano monitoring station in Mamuya village. Nine were from Singapore and the rest were Indonesian,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met on Friday with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, after weeks of deteriorating relations between their governments over the war in Iran and President Trump’s attacks on Pope Leo XIV.

Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed at least five people Friday, while Hezbollah fired rockets on northern Israel without in inflicting any casualties. The Health Ministry in Lebanon said that an Israeli airstrike on the southern village of Toura near the port city of Tyre killed four people and wounded eight.

Brazil is on track to record its lowest Amazon deforestation rates since 2012. Despite this major accomplishment, experts warn that forest degradation, driven by wildfires, logging and drought,

Pope Leo XIV has prayed for political leaders to end "fratricidal hatred" in the world. He spent Friday, the anniversary of his election, in Pompeii, marking a feast day important to him. Leo

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a rare ruby of enormous size, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the conflict-battered Southeast Asian nation, state media reported Friday. The ruby,