Iranian state television has confirmed that Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, was killed in Israel’s strikes Friday morning.

Israel attacked Iran nuclear and military sites on Friday as tensions reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Israel has launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists — a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any closer to building an atomic weapon.

The owner of an iconic nightclub in the Domincan Republic whose roof collapsed in April and killed 236 people has been arrested along with his sister.

North Korea says it has repaired a damaged destroyer and launched the ship in the presence of leader Kim Jong Un.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has denied plans to foist a one-party state on Africa's largest democracy.

A medic says the lone passenger to survive the Air India crash that killed more than 240 people found himself near debris after being thrown out of the plane and walked to a nearby ambulance for aid.

The photo looks unreal at first glance.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked for forgiveness after a close confidante in his Socialist Party has been put under investigation for his alleged participation in a kickback scheme.

A local official in Brazil say the world’s most-followed TikTok personality Khaby Lame is now in the South American country.

When a 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city earlier this week, killing 10 people, it didn’t take long for the Alpine country’s press council to call on journalists to show restraint when reporting about the victims and their families.

The Paris Games may be over, but the flame is still rising.

Gaza's Hamas-run police force said it killed 12 members of an Israeli-backed militia after detaining them early Thursday.

A government minister says the death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 78.

The U.N. refugee agency says the number of people forcible displaced by violence and persecution around the world has risen to more than 122 million, up by about 2 million from last year and a near-doubling over the last decade.

Oman’s foreign minister says there will be a sixth round of negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program this weekend.

A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they can and leave forever.

U.N. member nations have voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages held by Hamas, and unrestricted access for the delivery of desperately needed food.

Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government faces a major test after the opposition submitted a bill Wednesday to dissolve parliament.

Pope Leo XIV has made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will export 48 of its nationally produced KAAN fighter jets to Indonesia.

South Korea’s military has shut down loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda along the inter-Korean border.

Austria has fallen silent for a minute and people are laying candles in the city of Graz in memory of the 10 people killed in a school shooting that shocked the country.