Brexit vote, Britain was looking to Andy Burnham as its likely next leader after Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation.

The United Kingdom faces its seventh prime minister in just over a decade after Keir Starmer announced he will step down.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to step down as leader of the Labour Party after facing growing pressure to leave office. CBS News' Chris Livesay explains how local elections, reputational questions and other factors likely contributed to Starmer's decision.

Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst reports on President Donald Trump's response to Iranian officials' threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, telling them 'you close it and you won't have a country' on 'Fox News Sunday.

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump warned Iran after the country threatened to again close the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday (June 22) "I will do what I have to do" if Iran does not stick to its agreement with Washington.

Top U.S. and Iranian negotiators are beginning a second day of talks in Switzerland aimed at cementing an interim deal to end their conflict

The Trump administration temporarily lifted oil sanctions against Iran on Monday in a sharp reversal of U.S. policy that could provide Iran with an economic boon.

In a major reversal of U.S. policy, the Trump administration announced today that it was suspending oil sanctions against Iran for 60 days. The temporary move could provide Iran with an economic boost by allowing it to increase oil exports,

The Trump administration is temporarily lifting oil sanctions on Iran, allowing the country to sell oil freely and take dollars during peace negotiations.

The Trump administration temporarily lifted oil sanctions against Iran on Monday, a major reversal of U.S. policy that could provide Iran with an economic boon after years of having to sell at a discount to buyers who risked running afoul of the United States.

Major North American indexes fell in early trading on Tuesday, following world markets downward. Elsewhere, Asian and European stocks mostly fell, with South Korea's KOSPI in particular losing 10 per cent.

Global stocks sold off on Tuesday, led by deep losses for tech stocks following a losing session for the sector on Wall Street.

Global markets and U.S. futures slumped early on Tuesday, led by a major selloff in tech and chip stocks amid concerns about the AI-driven stock rally and potential high U.S. interest rates. In early trading on Tuesday,

Wall Street appears to be heading for another day of significant losses and again, it is the technology sector leading the way down with anxiety growing over probable rate hikes later this year that could hamper growth.

Human-caused climate change is tied to increasing extreme weather, and U.N. climate agency projections say the next five years should shatter more heat records. A growing swath of France, spreading on Monday to more than half of its regions,

The heatwave will be "widespread, long-lasting and intense", France's forecaster warned Red heat alerts have been issued in France, Spain and other nations across western and central Europe as heatwave conditions are forecast to intensify in the coming days with highs of more than 40C.

France gritted its teeth Monday for a week of record-busting temperatures, sweltering under a grueling heat wave that combines daytime highs above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) and sleep-robbing sweaty nights.

A heat wave gripping western Europe is forecast to strengthen this week, with days of dangerously hot and humid conditions and record-breaking temperatures in France, the UK, Spain and Germany.

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have halted fuel distribution in vacation season as Ukraine isolates the peninsula.

The new tally means Ukraine has roughly doubled the rate of targets it's hitting since 2025, with almost 820,000 strikes reported in all of that year.

Ukraine’s air defence forces intercepted 118 out of 135 Russian drones, although some strikes were recorded. The attack rages on.

Ukraine's strikes on refineries are no longer only producing dramatic images — they have disrupted a significant portion of Russian oil exports.