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President Trump says he will declare the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea passage that carries about a fifth of the world's oil, as United States territory.
The United States is sending a second aircraft carrier toward the Middle East and preparing new sanctions on Iran, as fewer ships pass through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway carrying much of the world's oil.
Russia struck Izmail, Ukraine's main Danube River port, damaging grain export facilities, while Kyiv hit an oil refinery inside Russia.
Ukraine's president says he has sent the United States formal proposals to end the war, even as Russia steps up pressure through airspace incursions NATO calls deliberate tests, attacks on Ukrainian grain ports, and threats to seize European Union-flagged ships.
Russia fired missiles that Ukraine says came from North Korea at the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least six people, a sign North Korea's support for Russia now includes missile technology.
The US is pressing Iran with sanctions rather than military force, while Iran's Revolutionary Guards say the Strait of Hormuz (a key oil shipping route) stays shut until sanctions end.
Iran says it will only agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway between Iran and Oman carrying much of the world's oil, if it gets war reparations, with other conditions unresolved.
Researchers found Kremlin-linked social media accounts spreading far-right framing of a migrant crossing at Ceuta, a Spanish enclave in North Africa, reaching hundreds of thousands of people; the EU is now pressing Meta and TikTok to monitor this more closely.
Warnings of a possible Russian test of NATO, new EU sanctions, a Graham-named sanctions bill in the Senate, Taiwan's biggest war games yet, and a new EU satellite contract.
A tanker reported explosions near the Strait of Hormuz just as Iran and Oman were close to a deal to reopen it; it's unclear if the blast was deliberate sabotage or unrelated.
Ukraine's president told NATO's chief a shortage of Patriot air-defense missiles is costing lives after a Russian strike on Kyiv, even as the European Union sent a first 1.4 billion euro payment funded by profits from frozen Russian assets.
A struck tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz, Ukraine's drones hit Russian warehouses again, US states sue over tariffs, and the EU spares Spain from Schengen sanctions over Ceuta.