The global benchmark price has fallen below $76 a barrel – the price it was trading at before the war in Iran began as investors becoming increasingly encouraged that oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz could soon return to normal.

A independent U.N. commission said Tuesday that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide, and in the West Bank, amounting to war crimes. The commission of inquiry,

The Israeli military has surrounded an underground base in Lebanon in which dozens of Hezbollah militants are trapped, Israeli officials said.

Red alerts were also in place in Britain, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as the extreme early summer heat forced school closures, travel disruption and alarm about climate change.

A U.S. airstrike launched last week in northwest Syria killed a senior Islamic State leader, U.S. military officials announced Wednesday.

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia’s president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon. It comes as Peru appears poised to elect Keiko Fujimori and Brazil heads toward

C.D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures.

NPR reports from Mongbwalu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fight to contain the virus faces obstacles from lack of supplies to residents who doubt that the virus is real.