President Donald Trump said the United States has reached a major oil agreement with Venezuela that would give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of the South American nation’s proven oil reserves, a move the administration is presenting as a breakthrough for U.S. energy security and long-term gasoline prices.

U.S. forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Iran’s Larak Island in the first known U.S. military action against Iran in more than a month, prompting Tehran to retaliate with ballistic missiles against U.S. bases in Jordan.

A massive manhunt was underway Sunday after a 22-year-old woman was killed and five people injured, some seriously, in an overnight shooting at a rave in the Swiss town of Aarau, police said.

Scores of people have been killed after a Russian drone strike on a warehouse near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, triggered a massive detonation, authorities say. The tragedy comes as Moscow’s aerial attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region continued for a third consecutive day.

Taiwan’s parliament approved a nearly $7.6 billion plan Thursday to expand the island’s military drone and other unmanned systems as it prepares for a potential Chinese attack.

Ratko Mladic, the bullish Bosnian Serb general who became feared as the “Butcher of the Balkans” after his forces besieged the Bosnian capital in the 1990s and carried out Europe’s worst massacre since World War II, has died. He was 84.

Two people were killed Thursday in an apparent relationship-related attack at a school near the German capital Berlin, with authorities detaining a 19-year-old German man as the prime suspect, police and officials said.

Violence erupted around Indonesia’s parliament in the capital, Jakarta, on Thursday night as police fired tear gas and deployed water cannon against protesters, while authorities detained scores of people accused of seeking to exploit nationwide demonstrations to create unrest.Violence erupted around Indonesia’s parliament in the capital, Jakarta, on Thursday night as police fired tear gas and deployed water cannon against protesters, while authorities detained scores of people accused of seeking to exploit nationwide demonstrations to create unrest.

Iranian missile and drone strikes reportedly caused billions of dollars in damage to U.S. intelligence sites and surveillance systems across the Middle East, according to NBC News, which cited four people familiar with the matter.

The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, traveled to Moscow earlier this week in part to warn Russia not to attack countries belonging to the NATO military alliance, sources familiar with the mission said Thursday.

Residents were awakened in the capital Kyiv as Russia hit Ukraine with drones and missiles in the early hours of Thursday, witnesses said.

Christians in Indonesia expressed concern Thursday as crowds gathered outside Parliament in Jakarta amid growing protests against corruption and government policies in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has expressed sorrow and ordered an immediate investigation after a fire erupted early Wednesday at a nursery for newborns in a major government hospital in Pakistan’s capital, killing more than a dozen babies.

A monk has been killed, and two other people seriously wounded after unidentified assailants attacked residents of one of Ukraine’s best-known Orthodox monasteries in the war-torn Donetsk region, church officials said.

Hungary’s new government has asked prosecutors to investigate suspected fraud and financial misconduct surrounding the previous administration’s purchase of nearly 17,000 Chinese ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic, while dozens of senior diplomats are being removed from their posts.