Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela.

Australia faces multi-faceted threats from autocratic regimes, hackers and antisemitic extremists that present a systemic challenge to national security and are degrading the security environment, the country’s spy chief said.

The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel’s Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades building as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats ​say.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a ​deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran on February ‌28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.

Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Chinese businessman featured in a Reuters investigation into transnational ​crypto-investment fraud, alleging he was part of a network that laundered money from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining.

Western Europe was in the grip of a heatwave on Wednesday that claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, shut schools and cultural landmarks, as forecasters warned the extreme temperatures could persist until the end of the week.

A baby girl’s death at a tourist attraction at the hands of her “manipulative and dangerous” father could have been prevented, a coroner says.

Australian authorities ramped ​up surveillance and testing after confirming two cases of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu, while ‌neighbouring Papua New Guinea suspended all poultry imports from the country.

Sick of floods, storms and other climate extremes eating into council budgets, local governments are seeking fossil fuel-funded compensation.

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said ‌on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran ​had agreed to nuclear inspections into “infinity,” while Tehran said it had made no such concession in negotiations, raising questions about the viability of their fragile ‌peace deal.

The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Tuesday directing President Donald Trump to halt U.S. military action against Iran, the latest rebuke of the Republican president from an increasingly restive Congress.