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A criminal trial opened in Greece Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them college students, in a disaster that horrified the country and revealed long-neglected safety failures.

Iranian officials remained adamant Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz would remain closed, despite threats from President Trump that U.S. forces could take out Iran's power plants if the strategic waterway is not opened by Monday.

All seven people aboard a Turkish military helicopter that went down in Qatari territorial waters Friday were confirmed Sunday to have been killed.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz on Sunday upheld President Trump's threat to strike Iranian energy infrastructure if Tehran keeps the strategic Strait of Hormuz closed.

Iran and its ally, the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, stepped up their attacks on Israel on Sunday, launching strikes across the country after the United States and Iran threatened to widen their targets in the war in the Middle East, now in its ...

President Trump warned Saturday that U.S. forces would "obliterate" Iran's power plants in 48 hours if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, signaling a new direction for the war as it moves into its fourth week.

Israeli settlers rampaged through multiple Palestinian villages overnight Saturday and into Sunday, smashing cars, setting fires and wounding several men in the latest flare-up of violence in the occupied West Bank.

Tens of thousands of people protested in Prague on Saturday against the policies and plans of the new Czech government led by populist Prime Minister Andrej Babis.

In one Russian city, officials blocked a rally due to a "tree inspection." Elsewhere, they blamed snow removal problems or still-existing COVID-19 restrictions. And in one location, administrators argued that the reason for the protest didn't exist.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon have to decide when to hold Israel's next elections. But with war raging on multiple fronts and no end in sight, Israel's enemies in Iran and Lebanon may help make that decision for him.