President Trump has backed down from his threat to wipe out Iran’s civilization and bomb its power plants by Tuesday night. Online, he said he agreed to suspend the bombing of Iran for two weeks.

The ruling party has unveiled a draft law that strips voters of the chance to elect the president.

In Russia, protesting against the war in Ukraine can be dangerous. But one Russian poet living in Moscow, Vadim Dzyuba, is speaking out.

Migrant workers say they are struggling to access cooking gas cylinders as the Iran war squeezes supplies.

Dozens of Congressional Democrats raised alarm Tuesday over President Trump’s rhetoric about Iran. Most Republican lawmakers have been silent.

Tehran had urged people to gather outside potential US and Israeli targets after Donald Trump threatened to attack civilian infrastructure.

Her husband told authorities she fell out of their dinghy on Saturday night and was swept out to sea.

More than one million people in Lebanon have been displaced since the start of the war as Israel expands its ground operation there.

The first two images show an ‘Earthrise’ and the solar eclipse the astronauts viewed.

The centuries-old Fanti Carnival returned to Nigeria on Monday with a burst of colour and spectacle.

Roberts-Smith is only the second Australian veteran of the Afghanistan campaign to be charged with a war crime.

Adriana Rivas moved from Chile to Australia in the 1970s, working there as a nanny and cleaner.

In a press conference last night, Trump reiterated threats against Iran if the country doesn’t accept a deal by 8:00 p.m. ET tonight. And, the Artemis II crew are on their way back to Earth.

Hours away from President Trump’s 8 pm ET Tuesday deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz, attacks continued in the Persian Gulf with no agreement in sight. Trump has threatened to bomb Iranian bridges and power plants if a deal is not reached.

It’s not just oil and gas that are affected by the Iran war. All sorts of shortages and price spikes are starting to pop up that stand to affect people’s daily lives.

The visit takes place ahead of President Trump’s own summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping next month, where Taiwan is expected to be a top agenda item.

NPR’s Leila Fadel asks Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about how much the U.S. has spent on the Iran war.

NPR’s A Martinez talks to international law expert Asli Bali of Yale Law School about President Trump’s threats to target Iran’s civilian infrastructure, which could amount to a war crime.

Vice President JD Vance is in Budapest to join an election rally for incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ahead of Hungary’s election.

Cheng Li-wun said she “gladly accepted” Xi Jinping’s invitation and hopes to be a “bridge for peace”.

The US president is in a delicate political position as the final hours to Tuesday’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz tick down.