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The United Arab Emirates suspended all trade with Iran on Wednesday after the UAE said it had come under renewed fire from the country - a move that will further isolate the Islamic Republic, which is suffering under U.S. sanctions and a blockade.

NATO said Wednesday it is prepared to defend all of its members against attacks by Iran after reports suggested Tehran was considering striking U.S. military targets in Europe.

Grocery stores, gas stations and other shops reopened on the Indonesian island of Flores Wednesday, four days after a powerful earthquake killed at least 71 people, injured nearly 1,200 others and damaged thousands of homes.

A legal environmental group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to halt the Trump administration's plans announced last month to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.

Dr. David Morens, who spent years as chief of staff to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to hide critical documents about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and his attempts to restore funding to a firm that was siphoning U.S.

The Pentagon is conducting a review of nuclear weapons use that seeks to provide the president and military leaders with greater options for using tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict while preventing an escalation into global ...

Questions are mounting about a new Pentagon plan to funnel government loans, potentially worth billions of dollars, through private investment fund managers to companies promising to deliver the critical materials needed for missiles, aircraft and ...

Australian PM Anthony Albanese criticized several states over the weekend for declining to join his government's national gun buyback program, arguing that inconsistent state licensing systems were undermining the effort to get firearms off the ...

President Trump said Tuesday his administration is not speaking to Iran and asserted U.S. control over the Strait of Hormuz while Tehran signaled a new phase of defiance and aggression in the region, raising tensions across the Gulf region.

A report released Tuesday by a human rights group found that forced labor persists on massive sugarcane plantations across the Dominican Republic, which exports sugar and other products to the U.S. - its largest market.