The US Treasury has designated more than 60 individuals, entities and vessels across five sectors and threatened secondary sanctions on third countries, while holding back the measures it called the toughest.
Canada will match new US tariffs dollar for dollar from 8 September after Mark Carney suspended trade negotiations with Washington.
A fighter jet dropped two bombs on a monastery compound in Sagaing region where more than 100 people were on a meditation retreat.
Two waves of Russian drones hit a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih on Friday. Zelenskyy says the second arrived about half an hour after the first.
Israel's Military Advocate General has closed the World Central Kitchen file without charges. Canberra summoned the ambassador and ruled out expelling him.
The joint statement names the agencies and the taskforces. It does not name a dollar figure, an arrest target or anything either side has agreed to fund.
Ulchi Freedom Shield began on Monday with 18,000 South Korean troops. Trump has ordered it reduced, citing Seoul's refusal to join the war on Iran.
A magnitude 7.7 quake struck off Flores before dawn on Saturday. Indonesia's disaster agency put the toll at 47 and landslides have cut off Nagekeo.
Pete Hegseth said the US Navy can hold its blockade of Iranian ports indefinitely. Brent traded at $87.97 and gained close to 6 per cent for the week.
The Prime Minister used his first call with the US President since March to press for an exemption from the forced labour tariff imposed in July.
The Russian president's first trip to the chain drew a formal protest from Tokyo, which claims the four southernmost islands as its Northern Territories.
To Lam and Anthony Albanese signed defence, border and digital agreements in Canberra, and Vietnam restored market access for Australian game meat.
Colombian tallies put the toll from Monday's magnitude 7.4 quake at 132. The worst hit parts of Choco are reachable mainly by boat and plane.
Typhoon Dolphin came ashore near Yuhuan in Zhejiang on Sunday evening with winds above 150km/h, after authorities moved more than a million people inland.
Washington will auction exploration rights over more than 31 million acres of Pacific seabed on 19 November. The territories closest to it have a comment window and no vote.
A divided appeals court upheld an injunction on the White House ballroom, ruling the project is for Congress to authorise. Trump will appeal to the Supreme Court.
General Secretary and President To Lam visits from 9 to 12 August and meets Anthony Albanese on Tuesday, with two way trade flat at about $23 billion.
Tehran and Muscat have settled coordinates for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The waterway stays shut until the US lifts its blockade, Iran says.
Cuba's national grid failed late Sunday and again on Monday during the restart, the sixth nationwide collapse this year for an island of about 10 million.
Trump cancelled a planned attack on Iran, subject to a rapid deal reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Talks begin Monday, US time.
Tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave this week. Al Jazeera reported at least 34 dead. Madrid has deployed soldiers and police.
A gas terminal at an Egyptian Mediterranean port was struck on Wednesday, the first time Egypt has been hit. Pakistan says US and Iran talks continue.
A magnitude 7.1 quake struck Kumamoto on Tuesday, collapsing a shopping centre floor and putting more than 170,000 people under evacuation orders.
Tehran said on Monday it controls the Strait of Hormuz and is not seeking talks, two days after Donald Trump halted a 13-night bombing campaign.
Spain declared a national wildfire emergency and France sent 1,000 troops to a blaze nearing Bordeaux, with evacuations across both countries past 220,000.
The United States lifted its tariff on Australian goods to 12.5 per cent on Friday afternoon, up from 10 per cent. Beef, gold and copper are exempt.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong pressed her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi over Beijing's ballistic missile test near Tuvalu when the pair met in Manila this week, telling him Australia would cooperate where it can and disagree where it must.
Brent crude pushed above US$96 on Thursday, a six-week high, as the United States struck Iran for an 11th night and President Trump threatened to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for every attack on Strait of Hormuz shipping.
Iran set two oil tankers ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday and the US struck Iran for a 10th night, pushing crude to five-week highs as Australia's fuel excise relief runs out on 2 August.
Andy Burnham became Britain's prime minister on Monday, the seventh in a decade, after Keir Starmer resigned and King Charles III asked him to form a government.
A US soldier killed in Iraq is the third American death in three days, as a ninth night of strikes on Iran began at 9am AEST and Brent oil hit US$91.
The US finished an eighth night of strikes on Iran at 1.30pm AEST Sunday, and Iran answered with missiles on Kuwait and Bahrain after two US deaths in Jordan.
A seventh night of US strikes hit islands in the Strait of Hormuz as transits nearly stopped and Brent settled at a one-month high of US$88.10.
A sixth night of US strikes hit dozens of targets, CENTCOM says. Iranian fire reached Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Qatar. Brent rose to US$85.01.
A fifth day of US strikes brought two waves inside 24 hours. Trump says power plants and bridges are next without talks. Brent hit US$86.19.
The 20 per cent cargo fee lasted 26 hours. A US naval blockade of Iranian ports began at 6am AEST as Brent settled at US$84.73 after a one-month high.
Two Emirati tankers were hit by Iranian cruise missiles in Omani waters, killing a crew member, as US strikes on Iran entered a third consecutive night.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard declared the Strait of Hormuz closed until further notice and disabled a second ship. Within hours Washington said commercial vessels are still transiting, and the US Navy-led body that routes merchant traffic kept its southern corridor open.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met his Omani counterpart in Muscat as both governments agreed to keep talking about safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, even as new data show shipping through the strait still near a standstill and Tehran and Washington divided over what their existing agreement actually requires.
Donald Trump says Iran asked to keep talking and the US agreed, while insisting the ceasefire is finished. Australia has an aircraft in the Gulf, a shut embassy in Tehran and no seat at the table.
Iran buried Ali Khamenei in Mashhad as US forces struck about 90 more targets and Iran fired on bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan, with Hormuz tanker traffic near a standstill.
US forces struck more than 80 targets inside Iran after three tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran answered with drones and missiles at bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.
NATO's 32 leaders met in Ankara on Monday and Tuesday for a summit dominated by US pressure to enforce a 5 per cent defence-spending target and by Ukraine's push for more air-defence weapons.
China fired a long-range ballistic missile from a submarine into the South Pacific, drawing protests from Australia, New Zealand and Japan within hours.
Iran's week-long state funeral for Ali Khamenei moved through Tehran on Monday, with the successor and son Mojtaba Khamenei still yet to appear in public four months after the strike that killed his father.
Peru's election jury proclaimed Keiko Fujimori president-elect on Friday, a month after a runoff decided by about 50,000 votes. Opponent Roberto Sánchez refuses to recognise the result.
China's foreign minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to handle Taiwan with 'utmost caution' in a July 1 phone call, the first senior diplomatic contact since President Trump's May visit to Beijing. The two governments' accounts of the call recorded different things.
The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA trade agreement at its six-year joint review on July 1. The deal stays in force but now faces a decade of annual reviews instead of a clean 16-year extension, with the US and Mexico due to hold further talks the week of July 20.
Australia and Vanuatu signed the Nakamal Agreement in Canberra on Monday, a security and economic treaty under which Vanuatu agrees to keep foreign military bases off its territory. The cost to Australia was not disclosed, and Vanuatu's earlier objections stripped Canberra of a veto over the island nation's infrastructure deals.
British Defence Secretary John Healey resigned on Saturday over a dispute about armed forces funding, with junior defence minister Al Carns also leaving the government. Neither issued a detailed statement explaining the specific terms of the disagreement.
An Australian national has been arrested by Thai authorities after the body of a 17-year-old was discovered in a suitcase in Bangkok. Thai police confirmed the arrest; formal charges had not been laid as of Saturday.
Iran has paused negotiations with the United States and threatened to 'completely block' the Strait of Hormuz, ruling out further talks until Israel ends operations in Lebanon and Gaza. Tehran also threatened the Bab-el-Mandeb. A fifth of the world's oil moves through Hormuz.
Ukraine hit targets across approximately 12 Russian regions and Crimea overnight on Saturday, with Russia responding by striking Ukrainian cities and infrastructure before dawn. The exchange follows a similar large-scale operation two nights earlier.
The confirmed death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela has passed 589 and continues to rise, with thousands still missing. The UN is scaling up its humanitarian response as rescue teams work around the clock.
The court's conservative majority sided with the Trump administration on Thursday to end Temporary Protected Status for approximately 350,000 Haitians and more than 6,000 Syrians, opening the way for mass deportations to two countries under active conflict or gang control. A separate ruling shut the asylum route at the US-Mexico border.
The United States carried out strikes on Iran on Friday after a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, testing an interim peace arrangement reached one week earlier. The US Treasury simultaneously granted Iran a 60-day sanctions exemption: an escalation and an olive branch on the same day.
Israeli airstrikes killed at least 12 people across southern Lebanon on Thursday according to Lebanese health officials, including two paramedics. Israel did not publicly account for all targeted sites by time of publication.
Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack targeting approximately 12 Russian regions and Crimea on Thursday, in one of the broader single-night operations of the conflict. Russia struck back across Ukrainian territory before dawn.
Two earthquakes struck Venezuela within hours of each other, killing at least 589 people with thousands missing. International teams from Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, and the United States are operating around the clock as a state of emergency remains in effect.
A magnitude 7.2 and a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the state of Yaracuy within 39 seconds of each other on June 24, causing catastrophic destruction in Caracas and La Guaira. At least 589 people were confirmed dead by June 26, with 68,900 listed as missing as rescue teams worked through collapsed buildings.
A memorandum of understanding signed on June 17 established a two-month window to negotiate a permanent end to the Iran conflict. The Strait of Hormuz, through which about 20 per cent of the world's traded oil passes, was blocked during the fighting and its reopening is a central condition.
The 52nd G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains adopted nine declarations covering Ukraine, artificial intelligence governance, critical minerals, and a billion-dollar Ebola funding commitment, with Ukrainian President Zelensky attending in person.
The EU adopted four pieces of legislation on June 3 aimed at tripling European data centre capacity within seven years and reducing a dependence on foreign digital infrastructure that currently exceeds 80 per cent, directly targeting US cloud giants and Chinese hardware suppliers.
