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Iran's Revolutionary Guard reported two tankers and a tugboat caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, in reports not independently confirmed. The U.S. carried out limited strikes on Qeshm Island, while Qatar stepped up mediation and oil prices kept falling on hopes of a deal.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has responded to Vice President JD Vance's comment that voters want the relationship between the United States and Israel to change, in the fallout from the Republican midterm defeat.
A diplomatic row between President Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz has escalated into a broader debate about Europe's transatlantic ties, as Washington announces the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from German soil.
Senior U.S. diplomat Tom Barrack told a forum in Doha that Washington no longer seeks to dominate the Middle East, but is reassessing its role rather than leaving the region.
Beijing says it is open to buying more American farm goods, but only if the two sides implement their agreed reciprocal tariff-reduction arrangement.
Greenland's parliament voted 16-0, with seven abstentions, to approve a trilateral security agreement providing for a stronger U.S. military presence and modernisation of Pituffik Space Base.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot plans to summon Ambassador Kushner in Paris after the U.S. embassy and State Department warned of a rise in violent radical leftist activity following the death of Quentin Deranque in Lyon.
The 30-year-old, who became the international face of Hong Kong's democracy movement, was sentenced for conspiring to collude with foreign forces after pleading guilty in September.
Defence Minister Wellington Koo said Taiwan has always enjoyed cross-party U.S. support and Congress will keep helping strengthen Taipei's defences, even as a second arms package remains held in abeyance.
North Korea test-fired a newly designed air-defence missile system and staged a cruise missile strike drill on Wednesday, state media said, its fourth weapons launch in a month.
Democrats' capture of both chambers in the midterm elections gives them new leverage over the Iran war, Ukraine aid, military spending and Latin America policy — even with President Trump's veto power intact.
The Commerce Department preliminarily determined that China is dumping imports of N-Cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-Sulfenamide, assigning a preliminary dumping rate of 285.94 percent to all Chinese producers.
Washington plans to ask NATO allies to contribute more to the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, which buys American weapons for Kyiv, with about $2 billion needed for already-approved packages.
Beijing says it is in communication with the U.S. and Russia about a possible first-ever trilateral meeting of the three leaders on the sidelines of the APEC summit on November 18-19.
The Treasury issued fresh sanctions against companies and individuals in India and Turkey accused of supporting Iran, as part of the Trump administration's "Operation Economic Outcast."
President Donald Trump said he has made a deal with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end Washington's $4 billion in annual funding to Israel after this year, while stressing the United States would still sell weapons to its ally.
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations circulated a draft Security Council resolution on November 3 authorising a two-year International Stabilization Force for Gaza under a Board of Peace.
U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said the United States will mediate working-level talks between Ukraine and Russia in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11, with Jared Kushner on the American team and Russia confirming it will attend.
Eight months into the war with Iran, NATO allies are taking on a greater role — including the first non-American commander of NATO's Joint Force Command in Norfolk — as the U.S. military leans on European bases.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Venezuelan Foreign Minister Oliver Blanco in Washington to discuss reforms laying the groundwork for free and fair elections, under the administration's three-phase plan for Venezuela.