Agreement between Iran and Oman over the strait is seen as vital to a wider deal to end the war that began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28.

The waterway, crucial to global supplies of oil and natural gas, will not open until the United States “corrects its behavior,” the Supreme National Security Council said.

CNN Global Affairs analyst Kim Dozier joins Audie Cornish to discuss Iran’s latest moves to install more control over the Strait of Hormuz

Iran said it was nearing a final pact with Oman defining new shipping lanes between them through the Strait of Hormuz but repeated that the U.S. must meet other conditions, including compensation and an end to sanctions and military threats,

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded Monday in western Colombia, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), with tremors felt in several cities across the country.

A major earthquake hit Colombia on Monday morning, burying people under rubble and causing severe destruction to buildings and infrastructure in the Pacific region and the central Andes.

A morning earthquake shook Colombian capital Bogota on Monday, with the tremor being felt as far away as the border with Venezuela, witnesses told Reuters.

A powerful earthquake in western Colombia on Monday shook the South American nation and neighboring Ecuador, prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it is a campaign to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and stop his more than 4-year-old invasion.

A Ukrainian drone strike has killed at least 13 people and injured 39 others in Nizhnekamsk, a city in the Tatarstan region deep inside Russia, local authorities said Monday, marking the deadliest attack to hit the country in more than two years.

Authorities in Russia's Tatarstan region say a Ukrainian drone strike on the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk killed 13 people and wounded 75 others in one of the deadliest attacks of

Russian officials say another 75 people were injured by the attack in the Tatarstan region, one of the deadliest Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia since Moscow's full-scale invasion.

The heat waves roiling Western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022

The first two months of summer in western Europe have been the hottest on record, the European Union’s climate monitor said Monday, as the continent grapples with devastating wildfires and braces for yet another heatwave.

Last month saw the highest average temperature ever recorded and alarming soil humidity figures across Western Europe, Copernicus said. Regions home to 900 million people underwent their hottest July

Western Europe has set a new average temperature record for the June/July period set in 2022, according to the European climate agency Copernicus. The extreme heat began in May and has contributed to major wildfires,

The alleged attack came just days after a school shooting in the same region in which, authorities said, a gunman killed at least eight people.

The incident comes just days after a Thai teenager shot his grandparents and attacked a school in the same province.

Officials said the suspect, a former lawmaker, had been apprehended after the shooting in the same province where a 14-year-old boy allegedly killed eight people last week.

A well-known former member of Thailand's House of Representatives, Chalong Reawraeng, has allegedly shot a former police colonel after entering his government office No deaths have been confirmed, but preliminary reports indicate that two people were seriously injured in the shooting Chalong declared that he had carried out the attack on a phone call to a well-known political commentator,

Taiwan's military conducted live-fire drills and simulated repelling a Chinese air landing assault on the strategically vital Penghu Islands on Monday (August 10) during annual war games.

Taiwan's military simulated repelling ⁠a Chinese air landing assault on the strategically vital Penghu Islands on ​Monday, and will later in the day "throttle" mobile internet for the first time during annual war games.

Taiwan’s military moved tanks, armored vehicles and artillery from eastern Hualien to Yilan early Monday in a simulated response to a Chinese landing operation targeting northeastern Taiwan during the annual Han Kuang military exercises.

Taiwan continued its 10-day war games this weekend, preparing for a potential invasion by China, which claims the territory as its own and has threatened to seize it by force. Anna Coren has more details from Taiwan.