The United States placed sanctions on Tomoko Akane, a Japanese citizen who heads the International Criminal Court, as part of a wider US campaign against the court.
The US and Canada have been in stalled trade talks, with Washington threatening to raise tariffs (taxes on imported goods) on Canadian products to 50%.
The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that much of the world's oil passes through.
The US Treasury has sanctioned International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane and a senior court lawyer, the deepest blow yet in an American campaign against the court, which the administration has vowed to dismantle "brick by brick."
Ukraine fired around 620 drones at Moscow, one of the war's biggest attacks, while Iran vowed to keep the Strait of Hormuz — a narrow waterway carrying much of the world's oil — closed until the US meets old conditions, and markets fell.
In the same week, Russia stepped up bombing of Ukraine's Odesa port to cut it off from the Black Sea, an unexplained incident was reported in the Strait of Hormuz (the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman that much of the world's oil passes through), and Somali pirates hijacked a cargo ship, their fifth attack since April.
Politicians across Germany's political spectrum, including Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives, the AfD and the Left party, are calling for the EU to sanction Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his remarks about killing people in Gaza.
Iran's parliament speaker said Tuesday that forces will keep the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow sea passage that much of the world's oil ships through, closed until the US meets terms from an earlier agreement.
Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai plan to put more than 2,000 self-driving taxis on European roads, with a similar push planned for the Middle East.
The European Commission wants to update the EU's tobacco tax rules for the first time in ten years, raising cigarette taxes and taxing vapes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches across the EU for the first time.
Ukraine's military launched around 620 drones at Moscow overnight, one of the largest single drone attacks on the Russian capital since the war began.
The European Central Bank says a sharp fall in seven dominant US tech stocks, known as the 'Magnificent Seven,' could damage the eurozone's financial system, not just American markets.