Two U.S. Army soldiers died when an Apache military helicopter attached to ​the service’s Fort Hood base crashed ‌into a field in Texas on Wednesday, sparking a large grass fire, officials said.

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.

The ongoing Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo concerns a previously unseen variant of the ​rare Bundibugyo species of the virus, indicating it ‌stemmed from a new transmission from animals to humans rather than from variants linked to earlier outbreaks, a new study ​said.

The Taliban have barred an estimated 2.4 ‌million Afghan girls from secondary education since they regained power in Afghanistan in 2021, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is set to face National Party ​lawmakers in Wellington after he called a meeting he said was to address increased speculation about his leadership months away from a general election.

A Syrian court ​sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest ‌during the country’s nearly 14-year war.

Four crew members were killed in an attack by Iran-backed Houthis on a small cargo ship in the Bab el-Mandeb strait2.

Rescue crews on Tuesday dug through ​mountains of rubble in western Colombia, shouting for quiet so they could listen for survivors still trapped under the buildings that collapsed in a powerful earthquake estimated to have killed at least 250 people.

More than 100 people were killed after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday calling for fewer childhood ​vaccinations by limiting the inoculation schedule to 11 immunizations, which he said would give U.S. children “gold-standard” protection and align the country with peer nations that recommend fewer shots.