Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The move threatens Saudi oil exports through a key commercial lane. And Saudi Arabia said it shut down a major oil pipeline as a precaution after it came under attack.

Israel's military on Thursday said it conducted strikes that demolished a series of tunnels used by Hezbollah as a base in southern Lebanon.

Once shunned over its extremist roots, the Sweden Democrats could enter government for the first time as voters weigh immigration, crime and Sweden's political transformation.

U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Ireland's leaders on Saturday ​before attending a golf tournament this weekend, a departure from his recent focus on the ‌Iran war and his party's effort to maintain power in November's midterm elections.

Brazil presidential candidate Flávio urged the nation's top court to make the investigation fully public as police probe his ties to a jailed banker.

Every presidential administration since 2001 has chosen “to protect the Saudis,” Terry Strada told those gathered in New York.

North Korea fired multiple short ballistic missiles toward waters off its east coast Saturday, a day after the US, South Korea and Japan wrapped up joint military exercises that Pyongyang had condemned as a threat to its security.

The activists were sentenced to about 5 to 7 years in prison in a case widely seen as a barometer of the city's eroding freedoms as Beijing clamps down on dissent.