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Nournews, a news outlet close to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, reported on its Telegram channel that the commander, Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United States and Israel "to avoid any miscalculation."

In an online statement, a spokesperson from the government's Ministry of Environment and Tourism said it was aware of initial autopsy findings suggesting dingo bites were likely not James's immediate cause of death.

In its efforts to rapidly boost its ranks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been making appeals on social media in language familiar to right-wing extremists.

Visitors take in the dazzling lanterns at night, with more than 200 handmade lanterns featuring animals, mythological beings and scenes from Chinese culture, at the 32nd Zigong International Lantern Festival on Friday.

Rescuers were searching for 82 residents feared buried under heaps of mud and debris, while 24 people managed to escape the disaster.

Rescue efforts have ceased and a recovery operation is under way, police said, adding that it was unlikely any of those missing are still alive.

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person and wounded 31 overnight into Saturday as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were to meet in the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks to end Russia's nearly four-year full-scale invasion.

Australia averages 20 shark attacks a year, fewer than three of them fatal, according to data from conservation groups.

Thousands of flights across the U.S. set to take off over the weekend were cancelled as a monster storm started to wreak havoc Saturday across much of the country and threatened to knock out power for days and snarl major roadways with dangerous ice.

More than a month after a deadline passed for the U.S. Justice Department to release all files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, most are still not available. It's not clear when they will be released as required by law.

Canadian veterans of the war in Afghanistan were outraged over comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, who minimized the contributions of NATO forces, claiming they stayed away from the front lines.

The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out a deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the first known attack since the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this month.

Thousands of demonstrators braved bitter cold to march through the streets of Minneapolis on Friday and demand an end to U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in their city, part of a wider show of defiance that organizers billed as a general strike.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's latest comments about America's allies in Afghanistan as an attempt to rewrite the history books.

Delegations from the U.S., Ukraine and Russia are meeting in Abu Dhabi for trilateral talks on ending the war.

Global fashion celebrities joined the public on Friday morning to say goodbye to iconic designer Valentino at his funeral service in Rome, at the Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

Iran's top prosecutor on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated claims that he halted the hangings of 800 detained protesters there "completely false." Meanwhile, the overall death toll from a bloody crackdown on nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 5,002, activists said.

TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, finalized a deal on Thursday to set up a majority American-owned joint venture company that will avoid a U.S. ban on the popular video-sharing app used by more than 200 million Americans.

The Trump administration on Thursday misrepresented the arrest of a prominent civil rights attorney for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his newly formed "Board of Peace" on an international stage Thursday as more countries responded to his invitation for a seat at the table that will initially aim to rebuild Gaza.

A five-year-old boy, wearing a blue toque with droopy ears, carrying a Spider-Man backpack, was reportedly apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in his Columbia Heights driveway on Tuesday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Europe's response to the Greenland dispute with the U.S., saying the continent needed to show more courage and describing it as a "fragmented kaleidoscope" of small and middle powers.

Greenland's red lines regarding sovereignty must be respected in talks with the United States, Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen told reporters in Nuuk on Thursday.

A Cuban migrant held in solitary confinement at an immigration detention facility in Texas died after guards held him down and he stopped breathing, according to an autopsy report released Wednesday that ruled the death a homicide.

Landslides hit a campground and a house in New Zealand and emergency crews were trying to rescue people buried in rubble, officials said Thursday.

Jack Smith, the former special counsel who filed indictments against U.S. President Donald Trump in two separate cases that never went to trial, condemned "false and misleading narratives" in his first public congressional testimony regarding his investigation.

The Iranian regime says just over 3,000 people were killed in recent protests over the country's failed economy, while human rights groups put the number of protesters confirmed dead at more than 4,000 and rising.

Netflix will pay for Warner Bros. Discovery's streaming and studio division entirely in cash to edge out its rival Paramount - the latest chapter in a months-long saga that, once concluded, could significantly change the global entertainment industry.

Former special counsel Jack Smith will make the case before a large American audience for the first time on Thursday as to why he believes that Donald Trump committed fraud in his actions and statements after his 2020 election loss. The details could serve as a cautionary tale of what the president is capable of doing during the midterms later this year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, resonated in Mexico, a country which, much like Canada, has also been forced to grapple with the mercurial temperament of its much larger and powerful U.S. neighbour

A Texas jury has acquitted a former Uvalde school police officer on charges he failed in his duty to confront the gunman during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting, which left 19 students and two adults dead.

Syria's government accused the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces of attacks it said killed 11 soldiers on Wednesday, but the SDF disputed key elements of the account, blaming at least one deadly blast on explosives being moved by Syrian troops.

Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people's homes without a judge's warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, as the Trump administration prepares to ramp up immigration enforcement in Maine.

Iranian state TV issued the first official death toll from recent protests, saying 3,117 people were killed. State television stated that 2,427 of the dead in the demonstrations that began Dec. 28 were civilians and security forces, but didn't elaborate on the rest. U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which relies on a network of activists inside the country to confirm reported fatalities, said the death toll was at least 4,560.

With only two weeks to go before the Olympics begin, work continues in Italy on the sliding centre and the main hockey arena.

In a whiplash-inducing U-turn, U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly dropped his insistence on taking control of Greenland, mere hours after laying out at great length his rationale for ownership of the Arctic island.

A Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives panel on Wednesday recommended former U.S. president BillClintonand former secretary of state HillaryClintonbe found incontemptof Congress for refusing to testify about ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which could lead to criminal charges.

Mexico sent 37 cartel members to the United States at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum saying Wednesday that it was a "sovereign decision" by her government.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had accepted his invitation to join Trump's Board of Peace initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts, a statement that Putin quickly countered, saying that the invitation was only under consideration.

Trump vaunted his administration's economic and immigration policies, and took jabs at perceived opponents, former president Joe Biden, U.S. congress member Ilhan Omar - and addressed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney directly, calling him "Mark" and saying Canada "lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements."

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's cancelling his tariff threat on several European nations in his push for U.S. control of Greenland, after coming to terms with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on a "framework of a future deal" on Arctic security.

Prince Harry held back tears as he said the Daily Mail had made his wife Meghan's life "an absolute misery," during his appearance in the witness box on Wednesday at London's High Court in his privacy lawsuit against the paper's publisher.

Two Olympic cauldrons for the Milano-Cortina Winter Games will pay homage to Leonardo da Vinci.

Last fall, a beloved granite rock used by climbers in the area vanished. But now, the rock dubbed 'Portable' by locals, has been located.

Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians, including two boys and three journalists, in separate incidents inGazaon Wednesday, local medics said, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire in the war-shattered enclave.

An analysis from the U.S. non-profit Climate Central found that average temperatures in both Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo are up more than 3 C than 70 years ago when the Winter Games were last held in the Alpine town.

A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment on Wednesday.