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Israel's military said Tuesday it launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, fully disabling the country's international airport in the capital, Sanaa. It also said several power plants were struck in the area.

In a historic first, conservative leader Friedrich Merz’s bid to become Germany’s 10th chancellor since World War II failed by six votes in parliament on Tuesday, a stunning defeat as he had been widely expected to win smoothly.

All four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights Tuesday as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones fired at almost a dozen Russian regions, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said.

An American climber died while attempting to scale Mount Makalu in Nepal, officials said Tuesday.

Hundreds of Indian tourists, families and honeymooners, drawn by the breathtaking Himalayan beauty, were enjoying a picture-perfect meadow in Kashmir. They didn’t know gunmen in army fatigues were lurking in the woods.

Across Europe, in forests, fields and beneath old farmland, the remains of German soldiers are still being found, exhumed and reburied, 80 years after a war that Nazi Germany started.

Cardinals who will take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Catholic pope began checking into two Vatican hotels on Tuesday, where they will be barred from contact with the outside world as they decide who should succeed Pope Francis.

China warned on Tuesday it would take necessary measures to crack down on 'infiltration and sabotage activities of foreign anti-China forces,' days after the CIA released videos aimed at enticing Chinese officials to leak secrets to the U.S.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian forces still planned to cease fire in Ukraine from May 8-10 as per President Vladimir Putin's orders, but would respond if Ukrainian forces tried to strike Russian positions.

Sixty-two years ago, Audrey Backeberg disappeared from a small city in south-central Wisconsin after reportedly hitchhiking with her family’s babysitter and catching a bus to Indianapolis.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a 20% reduction in the number of four-star officers, deepening cuts at the Pentagon that have shaken the Department of Defense at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term in office.

National Weather Service offices around the country are on guard after recent threats to agency infrastructure — specifically Doppler weather radars — from a violent militia-style group, emails from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s security office show.

New Zealand’s prime minister on Tuesday proposed banning children under 16 from social media, stressing the need to protect them from the perils of big tech platforms.

Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approach to his Tuesday meeting with Donald Trump is in the spotlight after a flurry of meetings between world leaders and the U.S. president, including a disastrous Oval Office dressing-down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February.