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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 13 people have been found dead after a powerful quake shook part of southwestern Japan

Rescue operations were under way at a shopping mall and over 200,000 people in the region were issued with evacuation orders.

Rescue operations continue at quake-hit mall 0:30Hotel shakes in Kumamoto during earthquake. 00:00:30, play videoHotel shakes in Kumamoto during earthquake 0:44People exit Aeon Mall after earthquake strikes.

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia said they had carried out joint airstrikes on Iranian proxies in Iraq. The Iranian military said it had targeted American military assets in Jordan.

Fighter jets from the United States and Saudi Arabia conducted joint military strikes Tuesday targeting Iranian proxy forces in Iraq, officials said, marking what appeared to be Riyadh’s direct entry into the ongoing conflict between Washington and Tehran.

The fighting shattered a brief period of calm after weeks of escalation between the U.S. and Iran over the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

The United States and Saudi Arabia attacked Iran-backed proxies in Iraq on Wednesday after Saudi air defense systems intercepted days of attacks launched from Iraq against the kingdom's petroleum facilities.

Fires in France and Spain have forced roughly 330,000 people to evacuate. Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent, heating at more than twice the global average.

French authorities say more than 220,000 people have been displaced by wildfires, as firefighters continue to battle the flames in France’s Gironde region. CNN’s Melissa Bell reports.

As the wildfires in France force hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate, some locals have taken the risk to fight the wildfires instead of evacuating.

Firefighters in France say they are still not in control of an unprecedented wildfire that's spreading towards the southwestern city of Bordeaux. The city's mayor says he's preparing for all eventualities.

Russian ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Sunday, setting off fires and wounding at least three civilians, while attacks on other parts of the country later killed at least two people,

Russian attacks killed at least nine people and injured at least 69 across Ukraine over the past day as it continues a campaign of attacks on gas stations, local authorities said on July 28. Chernihiv OblastGovernor Viacheslav Chaus said overnight Russian forces damaged a gas station in Kholmy in a Gerbera drone strike.

Russia continues to declare victories across Ukraine, but the battlefield tells a far more brutal story. From the front lines in Luhansk to contested positions still held by Ukrainian forces, this analysis examines the gap between official claims and the realities of modern war.

Dozens ⁠of Russian ⁠artillery and drone ​attacks killed three ‌people and injured ‌six ⁠in ⁠Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk Region, Regional ​Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. Hanzha, writing ​on Telegram,

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to advance a Russia sanctions package inspired by the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, hours after a funeral service for the Republican lawmaker in Washington that Ukraine's president attended.

Senators voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to advance a sweeping Russia sanctions bill that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) had long sought to move forward before his unexpected death. The 86 to 12 procedural vote tees up the bill for final passage in the upper chamber later this week.

Senators announced a breakthrough on the long-stalled measure as Senator Lindsey Graham, its main champion, was memorialized.

N.C., and Unleash Prosperity co-founder Stephen Moore discuss the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,’s Russia sanctions bill and Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID diary entries on ‘The Bottom Line.’

Benjamin Netanyahu says he will visit New York City, despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani's repeated calls for his arrest under an ICC warrant.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will visit New York despite calls for his arrest and accuses the NYC mayor of 'fomenting hate.'

Benjamin Netanyahu said that he still plans to visit New York City for the United Nations' General Assembly after Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that he was unwelcome, and called for his arrest. The Israeli Prime Minister said that Mamdani was "fomenting hate" after the mayor had said New York City was looking into ways to arrest Netanyahu,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview on FOX News Channel's Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday (July 26) said he intends to travel to New York for the United Nations General Assembly,