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A plane carrying patients evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship with suspected hantavirus infection, lands at the Bourget airport, north of Paris, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

May 11, 2026 at 3:35 p.m.

A French woman and an American tested positive for the hantavirus, as nations around the world scrambled Monday to repatriate passengers from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak...

FILE – Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri,File)

Trump says US military has blockaded Iranian ports to pressure Tehran

April 13, 2026 at 5:32 p.m.

President Trump said Monday that the American military had begun a blockade of Iranian ports as part of his effort to force Tehran to open the Strait of Hormuz and...

Smoke rises following several Israeli airstrikes in Beirut, Lebanon, on April 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizes direct talks with Lebanon in potential boost to ceasefire efforts

April 9, 2026 at 6:13 p.m.

A tentative ceasefire in the Iran war staggered Thursday under the weight of Israel’s intense bombardment of Beirut and Tehran’s continued chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz.

People take cover in a bomb shelter as air raid sirens warn of incoming Iranian missile strikes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Iran fires on Israel and Gulf neighbors as President Trump claims threat from Tehran nearly eliminated

April 2, 2026 at 3:36 p.m.

Iran’s attacks on Gulf states along with its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz have disrupted the world’s energy supplies with effects far beyond the Middle East.

First responders inspect a destroyed car at the site of a residential building hit in an overnight strike during the U.S.-Israeli military campaign in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran, Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Matin Hashemi)

Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast

March 25, 2026 at 8:20 p.m.

Iran on Wednesday dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East and launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries, including an assault that sparked a huge...

In this courtroom sketch, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, left, and his wife, Cilia Flores, second from right, appear in Manhattan federal court with their defense attorneys Mark Donnelly, second from left, and Andres Sanchez, Monday, Jan. 5, 2026, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Trump administration’s capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework

January 6, 2026 at 8:37 a.m.

From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent...

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Passengers from virus-stricken cruise ship fly to home countries for monitoring

Trump says US military has blockaded Iranian ports to pressure Tehran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizes direct talks with Lebanon in potential boost to ceasefire efforts

Iran fires on Israel and Gulf neighbors as President Trump claims threat from Tehran nearly eliminated

Iran rejects US ceasefire plan, issues its own demands as strikes land across the Mideast

Trump administration’s capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro raises unease about the international legal framework

NATO chief praises Trump for making Europe ‘pay in a BIG way’ on defense ahead of summit

The Dutch government has collapsed. What happens next?

Israeli soccer fans were attacked in Amsterdam. The violence was condemned as antisemitic.

Nobel Prize in medicine honors 2 scientists for their discovery of microRNA