Oil prices surged past $98 a barrel early Thursday after an Iran-aligned militant group in Yemen said it had attacked tankers in the Red Sea. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the group was being "suckered" by Iran into joining the current conflict.

In just a week, the dismissal of a Ukrainian defense minister set in motion a transformation of the country’s armed forces that replaced the old guard with a new generation of leadership.

Israel's UN ambassador called Mayor Zohran Mamdani a "clown" after he demanded federal authorities arrest Benjamin Netanyahu on an ICC warrant.

Leading Russian online retailer Wildberries halted operations at one of its warehouses following a Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Thursday, as Kyiv broadens its campaign ​against a company at the heart of Russia's consumer economy.

The bridge is still set to open to traffic on July 27 but Trump's new tariffs led Canadians to set a Canadians-only opening ceremony on July 24.

The bipartisan consensus on defense collapsed as Republicans quashed objections from Democrats, who say Congress has failed to rein in Trump's use of military force.

Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Austria was officially inaugurated as a police station on Wednesday in an effort to destroy the building’s appeal as a site of pilgrimage for people who glorify the Nazi dictator.

The European Union on Thursday hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors.