Two powerful earthquakes struck the northern coast of Venezuela successively on Wednesday, leading to collapsed buildings in the capital Caracas.

Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia's next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday's runoff election.

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

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,

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump intensified pressure on oil companies to lower gasoline prices following the recent decline in crude.

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina kept their World Cup dreams alive and ended Qatar’s in a 3-1 Group B victory rich in incident, tension and moments ​of brilliance on Wednesday, leaving the Bosnians almost certain to ​qualify for the knockout stages as one of the tournament’s ⁠eight best third-placed teams.