The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said that tropical storm Beryl has intensified into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, and cautioned that it may undergo rapid strengthening as it approaches the Caribbean island of Barbados.

In an election campaign dominated by hardliners, Iranian presidential hopeful Massoud Pezeshkian stood out as a moderate.

French voters cast their ballots in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could usher in the country’s first far-right government since World War Two, a potential sea change at the heart of the European Union.

An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot dead in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a terrorist attack against Serbia.

A Russian missile strike hit a nine-storey residential building in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others, officials said.

When a Green party activist was headbutted in the street, his attackers told him there was more to come when the far right’s Jordan Bardella wins France’s parliamentary election.

Adding partners to the AUKUS defense project would be “complicated,” a senior Australian diplomat said, saying he did not believe the U.S. Congress is open to expanding the pact involving Australia, the U.S. and Britain.

A roof collapse at New Delhi’s main airport highlights Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s challenges to make India a global aviation hub and raises questions about the rapid pace of infrastructure development in India.

The number of days reaching a sizzling 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) in 20 of the world’s largest capitals – from Delhi to Jakarta to Buenos Aires – has risen 52% over the past three decades, a think tank analysis found on Friday.

The case is one of several around the United States over when abortion is legally available in medical emergencies under exceptions to state abortion bans.

Oklahoma’s Department of Education ordered every teacher in the state to have a Bible in their classroom and to teach from it, in an announcement on Thursday that challenges U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have found state sponsorship of religion to be unconstitutional.

Residents in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince expressed cautious hope after a first contingent of Kenyan police officers arrived in the Caribbean country, as part of a long-delayed mission to help police fight armed gangs.