The US military yesterday said two of its personnel were killed in Jordan and another was missing after an Iranian attack, while Iran’s supreme leader said Washington would pay for “seeking to incite war” after a seventh straight night of US strikes.

Kuwait and Bahrain report attacks on critical infrastructure as Tehran vows to escalate if US bombing continues

Oil prices remain elevated as renewed fighting threatens Gulf shipping and regional stability

In Kuwait, Iranian forces targeted an ammunition depot at the Al-Adiri camp, the headquarters buildings and ammunition depots at the Ali Al-Salem base and several communication bridges

Whether fast-spreading cholera in Sudan and Yemen or the Ebola virus in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), outbreaks of disease tend to be especially deadly when they take hold amid armed conflict

Trump says he will add wildfire pollution costs to existing tariffs on Canadian goods

Firefighters are battling 68 large blazes in 15 states

The 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude quakes struck within a minute of each other on June 24, decimating the coastal state of La Guaira located north of Caracas

A major wildfire that has been raging for two days in northeast Spain has reduced more than 12,000 hectares of land to ash, regional authorities said yesterday, warning of a “very high risk of spreading”.

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck southern Mexico and parts of Central America yesterday, seismologists said, with a tsunami alert briefly issued for a stretch of the Pacific coast.

Sir Garry Sobers, arguably the greatest all-rounder of all time, has died aged 89, West Indies Cricket announced yesterday.

Perched atop a mountain in Chile’s Coquimbo region, where some of the world’s darkest skies stretch over the Andes, a giant ​observatory has begun filming the infinite to create the first movie ‌of the universe.

Andy Burnham, nickna-med the ‘King of the North’, was elected leader of Britain’s governing Labour Party yesterday, the final step before becoming its seventh prime minister in a decade on a pledge to thwart the rise of the populist Reform UK.

US President Donald Trump escalated his effort to make election security a central issue in November’s midterm elections, asserting that China interfered in the 2020 presidential campaign despite a US intelligence assessment that found no evidence to support that claim.

The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran yesterday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, as the warring foes risked further escalation by expanding their targets to include infrastructure.

Twenty schoolchildren died when the bus carrying them crashed on the way back from a trip to some waterfalls in eastern Uganda late on Thursday, police said.

The United Nations yesterday called for impartial investigations into dozens of reported deaths that have occurred in Pakistan-administered Kashmir,  a wave of unrest ahead of regional elections.

Japan’s parliament enacted changes to the imperial succession law yesterday but maintained the bar on a woman becoming emperor despite surveys suggesting wide public support for the idea.

US tech investor Balaji Srinivasan has announced he was freezing projects in Malaysia after authorities raided his start-up campus over claims it was hosting foreigners including Israelis illegally.

Russia attacked two Ukrainian Black Sea port cities yesterday, killing three people, officials said, as Moscow intensifies pressure on Ukraine’s key trade routes.