Iran's army said it launched attacks on strategic U.S. assets and military bases in Kuwait and Bahrain. It comes shortly after Egypt said that a drone hit two ships at its Mediterranean port of Damietta.

Searchers continued to work in the Kumamoto area, including at the site of the collapsed mall, where some of the most serious damage was recorded.

Overnight, the U.S. military said it struck Iran's Revolutionary Guards' military command centers, drone facilities after Tehran fired at U.S. forces.

Anthropic's artificial intelligence model Claude "gained unauthorized access" to three outside organizations on three separate occasions during testing.

Spanish firefighters battled multiple blazes on Thursday, even as they made progress stabilizing two main fires of concern in the Madrid region and Ávila the day before.

Fourteen nations have backed the formation of a Saudi-led coalition to protect shipping routes from Houthi attacks in and around the Red Sea.

Escalating Russian strikes have renewed concerns that airspace violations could lead to confrontations with NATO members.

The blast was apparently triggered by a buildup of methane gas and occurred on the outskirts of the Baluchistan provincial capital of Quetta, officials said.