The US and Iran began talks in Switzerland on a peace deal to settle the issue of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and permanently reopen the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump once again threatened strikes if Hezbollah keeps attacking Israel.

Iran’s foreign minister said early Monday that Pakistani and Qatari mediation has delivered major progress to end the Lebanon War and the two mediating nations said the first round of High-level talks between the U.

High-stakes talks between the US and Iran, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, are now underway in Switzerland. Follow live updates.

Talks ⁠between Iran ⁠and the U.S. ​have concluded ‌successfully in Switzerland, ‌Pakistani ⁠Prime ⁠Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday. "The ​discussions were held in ​a positive and constructive ⁠atmosphere ⁠and yielded ⁠encouraging progress,

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.

Moscow shot down dozens of drones in the early hours of Monday and briefly suspended flights at airports, authorities in the Russian capital said, just days after Ukraine hit the city's oil refinery again.

Ten years ago, Britain chose to abandon its lucrative membership of the world’s largest single market. It has been paying a price ever since.

The U.K. is about to get its seventh prime minister since June 23, 2016, a decade ago Tuesday, when the country voted 52%-48% to leave the EU after more than four decades of membership. Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron,

Simon Boyd’s firm makes prefabricated steel structures on the south coast of England and ships them to customers as far away as Ghana and Barbados

But even in majority-Remain London where 59.9% of Londoners voted to stay in the EU, there was divided opinion, with five of London's 33 local authority areas backing the Leave campaign. A decade on,

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.

Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump-backed conservative candidate who has never held public office, narrowly won Colombia's presidential runoff election Sunday. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports.

He won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, with promises that a vote for him would mean a definitive crackdown on the country’s decades-long crisis of crime and armed conflict.

President Donald Trump had endorsed Abelardo de la Espriella, a political outsider who refers to himself as "The Tiger."

Eccentric, ostentatious and artistic, Abelardo de la Espriella is also a political neophyte who is poised to become Colombia’s next president after leaning into everything that makes him different from the conventional politician to win people’s support.

The World Cup rolls on and the fixtures keep coming thick and fast and following Cape Verde's latest valiant effort in clawing back a dramatic draw against Uruguay, you can follow all the day's news live on ESPN.

Scoring goals and breaking records is what Lionel Messi does, and he is already doing that again in his sixth World Cup. The Argentina captain has the World Cup scoring record all to himself after another standout performance,

Lionel Messi's double pushed Argentina past Austria and into the knockout rounds of the 2026 World Cup as the team's title defense started with two wins.

Lionel Messi set a World Cup record with his 17th and 18th goals, and defending champion Argentina advanced to the knockout stage with a 2-0 victory over Austria