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Australia's most decorated living veteran, Ben Roberts-Smith, did not apply for bail when the war crime murder charges against him were listed in a Sydney court Wednesday.

President Trump agreed Tuesday to a two-week suspension of his threat to launch a sweeping bombing campaign targeting Iran's bridges, power plants, and utilities if they didn't agree to his demands to open up the Strait of Hormuz.

Detained aid worker Joseph Figueira Martin, who had been held in the Central African Republic for nearly two years, was freed Tuesday, his family told The Associated Press.

Three times a week, Asghar Hashemi undergoes dialysis treatment at a hospital in northern Tehran. He fears that if power stations are knocked out, as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened in escalating rhetoric, his life will be in danger.

Actor James Woods drew a sharp line between Britain's sweeping firearms restrictions and what he called a creeping cultural and security crisis, posting Sunday night on X that the country has gone from surrendering gun rights to "standing on the edge ...

Portugal has authorized the U.S. military to use its air base in the Azores for military operations in Iran, but said flights originating from Lajes Field can't bomb civilian infrastructure targets.

President Donald Trump's recent statements of intent about his administration's plans for Iran - some laced with profanity, some threatening deeply destructive, nation-shattering actions - have raised questions about international law.

The Trump administration will spend nearly $39 billion in the next several years on rapidly building the first parts of the new Golden Dome nationwide missile defense system.

Several federal agencies issued a high-urgency joint advisory warning of an urgent and ongoing Iranian-affiliated cybersecurity threat.

A prototype of an autonomous fighter jet designed and built by General Atomics crashed in the California desert on Monday during takeoff, the company said in a statement.