Iran said on Thursday it would respond with “long and painful strikes” on U.S. positions if Washington renewed attacks and ​restated its claim to the Strait of Hormuz, complicating U.S. plans for a coalition to reopen the waterway.

The detained former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to house arrest, the country’s state media has reported.

Hundreds of protesters clashed with Australian emergency services workers in a remote town following the alleged murder of a five-year-old Indigenous girl, police said on ​Friday.

Asal, a freelance designer in her 30s living in Tehran, used to get projects from abroad all the time.

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday it had charged the governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, ‌Ruben Rocha, and other officials for their alleged involvement with the Sinaloa Cartel, in a significant escalation of U.S. anti-cartel action that is likely to increase tensions between the United States and Mexico.

King Charles’ courting of President Donald Trump on his state visit will not repair the recent fraying of U.S.-British relations but underscores how London is playing a ​longer game in trying to preserve the historic alliance.

Elon Musk took the stand at a high-stakes trial over the future of OpenAI, casting his lawsuit against the ChatGPT ​maker as a defense of charitable giving.

Efforts to end the Iran conflict were at an impasse with U.S. President Donald Trump unhappy with the latest proposal from Tehran, which he said had informed the U.S. it was in a “state of collapse” and figuring ​out its leadership situation.

Two successive Israeli strikes on a building in a ​southern Lebanese town killed five people, including three rescuers who went ‌to help those wounded in the initial attack, Lebanon’s health ministry said.

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said it was quitting OPEC, dealing a blow to the oil producers’ group ​as an unprecedented energy crisis caused by the Iran war exposes discord among Gulf nations.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised soldiers who committed suicide while fighting against Ukrainian forces ​in Russia’s Kursk region, confirming an extreme battle policy.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday Iran could telephone if it wants to negotiate an end to their two-month war and stressed it can never have a nuclear weapon, after Tehran said the U.S. should remove obstacles to a deal, including its blockade of Iran’s ports.