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Larak Island is just offshore from the key port of Bandar Abbas and sits right on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global shipping.Iran is currently making tanker traffic pass by this island for checking and reportedly...

U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in the first military action in a month on Sunday, according to a U.S. official, breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six...

Dolly Parton was laid to rest in a private burial in Nashville on Friday, three days after the country music legend died at age 80.Parton's niece Lainey Mae Parton shared news of the burial Saturday in an emotional social...

BOSTON -- In a race that has centered on whether Ed Markey, 80, is too old for another U.S. Senate term, the Massachusetts Democrat's answer to a recent debate question was especially striking. When asked whether he uses AI...

Nasa says its "crisp, sweeping surveys will help scientists investigate dark energy and dark matter, discover and characterise exoplanets, map billions of galaxies, study black holes, and explore objects from our own solar system to the edge of the...

President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against the media on Sunday with an admonition to the Federal Communications Commission to investigate polling used by news outlets and punish a prominent television news host.Trump has long had an adversarial...

Venezuela's deposed leader Nicolás Maduro said on social media Sunday that he was "standing firm," while sharing photographs from the New York prison where he has been held since his capture by U.S. forces.Maduro and...

For nearly an hour, he had no idea whether she was alive and kept calling her without success. Then the phone finally connected and Yunisha answered."Finally, my daughter received my call and I couldn't stop myself, broke out... two...

The Alliance of Sahel States - composed of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso - said the attempted coup was "a betrayal by a group of soldiers involved in an attempt at destabilisation".The authorities have not said how many soldiers...

Mass shootings overnight in Chicago and Trenton, New Jersey, left three people dead and 18 wounded, authorities said.Gunfire erupted late Saturday at a crowded park on Chicago's South Side while police were at the scene attempting to disperse a...