U.S. Treasury chief Scott Bessent said the United States will impose “the toughest sanctions in history” on Iran, a move he suggested would lessen the need for new major military operations.

Half a million Australians have no access to desperately needed drug and alcohol addiction help, and funding uncertainty is intensifying the risk to existing services, a peak health provider warns.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labelled Israel’s response to the attack as a “so-called” and “nothing to see here” report.

Australia summoned Israel’s ambassador and expressed outrage at a decision by its military not ​to pursue criminal proceedings over the death of an Australian aid worker in ‌a 2024 airstrike in Gaza.

Serbia has turned to Russia for help in fighting wildfires because of a lack of available planes from the European Union, its interior ministry said.

The AFC/M23 rebel alliance in Democratic Republic of Congo, which has highlighted its ability to tackle the spread of Ebola ​in territory it controls, has said it will impose ‌new restrictions on people’s movements to and from Ebola-affected government-held zones.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan plan to move back to Britain this month, six years after they stepped down from their royal duties and relocated to the U.S., a source close to the couple said.

A record number of humanitarian workers were attacked last ‌year, driven partly by increased use of armed drones, the United Nations said on Wednesday, calling the trend “appalling”.

At least nine people were killed, including a child, in a fire at a ​hotel in India’s eastern city of Kolkata ‌on Wednesday, local police said.

A government-owned ferry that capsized on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba last week was carrying about ​180 passengers, double what police had given ‌as its capacity, the government said on Tuesday, as the death toll rose to 94.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday unsealed new and updated charges against 17 individuals working with an Iranian ​company that it alleges carried out hacks and data theft ‌against U.S. universities, companies and government agencies.

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab rejected accusations by U.S. states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit, at the start of a trial that could reshape ​some of the most popular apps on the planet.