EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday announced a "drone deal" with Ukraine to boost joint production of the key battlefield technology.

The lifting of border controls between Spain and Gibraltar has closed "an open wound", Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday as an agreement allowing free movement across the frontier came into force.

Former U.S. president Joe Biden on Wednesday announced the forthcoming publication of a memoir on his time in the White House, and said that his cancer treatment was going "really well."

Cuba has restored its power grid, authorities said Wednesday, after the third total blackout in less than ten days as the island faces an energy crisis amid a U.S. oil blockade.

The United States has expanded its sanctions targeting Iran's oil sector, taking further aim at the network of petroleum shipping magnate Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, the Treasury Department said.

The United States launched a wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday, after it reimposed a naval blockade in a return to war between the two foes.

Nearly a month after they signed a memorandum of understanding towards ending the Middle East war, the two sides resumed fighting with strikes on targets across the region.

U S. President Donald Trump told Fox News he would expand U.S. strikes on Iran next week to target power plants and bridges if Tehran does not make a deal.

"Next week it gets really bad for them because next week comes the power plants. Next week comes the bridges," Trump said in an interview with the U.S. broadcaster.

More civilians were killed in Ukraine in June than in any single month since April 2022, the United Nations said Tuesday, as Russia escalated long-range missile strikes.

Polish fighter jets on Tuesday intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane in international waters over the Baltic Sea, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told a press conference.

Hundreds of French firefighters aided by water bombers on Tuesday battled to control wildfires that have ravaged a hugely popular forest outside Paris as another scorching heatwave keeps the capital in its grip.