The Brazilian government has opened a process that could result in the adoption ​of reciprocal measures against the United States ‌in response to tariffs recently imposed by Washington on the country’s goods, it said in a Thursday statement.

Preliminary results on Friday showed that Prime Minister Mark Brown’s Cook Islands Party would likely retain control of ​parliament, winning 12 of the Pacific nation’s 24 seats, although ‌bad weather delayed voting on the remote island of Nassau.

Tourists and residents fled villages in the Halkidiki region of northern Greece by land and sea on ​Thursday as a wildfire fanned by strong winds engulfed houses and ‌trees near a resort during the heart of holiday season.

Australian ​Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that the AUKUS defence pact ‌remained “full steam ahead” after an overnight phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, and said he had urged him to fully exempt Australia from all tariffs.

The Trump administration has repeatedly said the fight against sex trafficking is one of its top priorities.

Hopes of finding more survivors of the ​powerful earthquake that rocked Colombia early this week were fading as rescue workers narrowed their searches, while families in the worst-hit areas waited for ‌news of missing relatives.

Two U.S. Army soldiers died when an Apache military helicopter crashed ‌into a field in Texas.

Indonesian authorities rescued more than 200 people on Wednesday after a ferry travelling from the tourist island ​of Bali caught fire in waters off the island of ‌Lombok, officials said, as the search continued for any other missing passengers.

Acclaimed Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent much of her career documenting moments of dissent and the lives of women in Iran.

Meta Platforms (META.O), opens new tab will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday.

Iran and the United States remain at ​loggerheads over efforts to agree a permanent end to the war in the Gulf, according to a senior Iranian source, who said there ‌had been no progress in talks to revive the interim deal agreed in June and define a time frame to implement it.

North Korea fired a ​ballistic missile on Wednesday toward the sea off the Korean peninsula’s east coast, South Korean and Japanese authorities said, days ahead of major ‌joint military exercises by Seoul and Washington long denounced by Pyongyang.