French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said that he had decided to "activate the highest level of public health mobilization," in a bid to boost staffing levels.
The U.S. and Iran have been engaged in public disputes over the terms of their interim deal, fueling continued uncertainty about the future of the crucial waterway even as oil prices fall.
The late-night vote came hours after a fractious meeting that included a shouting match with President Donald Trump over some senators' opposition to the conflict.
Buildings collapsed in Caracas, Venezuela, after a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit along the country's Caribbean coast. NBC News' Aaron Gilchrist reports.
President Trump says he doesn't think that the U.S. was responsible for a deadly strike on a school in Iran at the beginning of the war. "I don't think it was us," Trump tells reporters during an Oval Office briefing alongside NATO Secretary General ...
The North Korean leader proclaimed a new era of naval power that will project his reclusive regime's nuclear capabilities Tuesday as he commissioned a 5,000-ton destroyer.
Red alerts were also in place in Britain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as the extreme early summer heat forced school closures, travel disruption and alarm about climate change.