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The U.S. military launched airstrikes Wednesday on Iran following the crash of an Army helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic.

One Japanese city took no chances after a series of bear sightings this week, closing nearly 100 schools as officials scoured the town, and as attacks took place elsewhere in the country.

A former Taliban commander was sentenced to 42 years in prison on Tuesday for crimes including kidnapping a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and providing support that led to the deaths of three American soldiers.

A Texas teenager who fatally stabbed a 17-year-old track athlete from a rival team during a meet was convicted of murder Tuesday in a trial that drew national attention.

U.K. leaders called for calm Tuesday after the arrest of a Sudanese man accused of trying to kill a man in a vicious stabbing on a Belfast street sparked fiery anti-immigration protests because the suspect is an asylum-seeker.

Police say drugs and alcohol played a role after a woman fell 10 storeys down a trash chute Sunday in New Jersey.

Pope Leo XIV found himself in the midst of two of Spain’s greatest rivalries — over soccer and language — as he landed in Barcelona on Tuesday during his weeklong visit to the country.

Hamas militants and police units in Gaza beat, maimed and publicly executed dozens of Palestinians during its war with Israel in acts amounting to war crimes, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.

Adding more turmoil to a chaotic World Cup buildup for Iran, the national soccer federation claimed Tuesday that FIFA revoked the ticket allocation for fans at the team’s three group-stage games in the United States.

Christian religious leaders from Lebanon’s southern port city of Tyre called on the international community and Lebanese officials on Tuesday to act quickly to prevent Israel from attacking the Christian district of the city, as airstrikes on nearby neighbourhoods killed eight people and wounded dozens of others.

Canada is imposing another round of sanctions on Israelis accused of “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank and urging more action by Israel -- which in turn is accusing Ottawa of fuelling domestic antisemitism.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders who were in Estonia for a regional summit Tuesday, a visit that comes amid friction over Ukrainian drones straying into the region in recent months.

When CBS News President Tom Cibrowski asked Scott Pelley if he could come by for a meeting, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent never expected to be fired, he said in an emotional interview.

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime assistants told members of the House Oversight Committee on Tuesday morning that she did not know about the late convicted sex offender’s crimes, describing him as a master manipulator who had every reason to keep them a secret from her, according to two sources familiar with the testimony.

An investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court found he had engaged in “serious misconduct” and “serious breach of duty,” according to documents seen by The Associated Press on Tuesday.