British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday he was "not going to walk away" from the job with his Labour Party on course to be badly beaten in local and regional elections.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio kicked off a two-day visit to Vatican City and Italy Thursday by meeting Pope Leo XIV, days after President Trump claimed the first American-born pontiff was "endangering a lot of Catholics and a lot of people."

The US and Iran are nearing an agreement on a memorandum of understanding to end their nine-and-a-half-week war.

US forces Monday sank six small Iranian boats deployed to harass vessels stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, shortly before President Trump warned that the Islamic Republic will be "blown off the face of the Earth" if it interferes with efforts to reopen the crucial waterway.

"No US Navy ships have been struck," US Central Command confirmed on X.

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The US is ramping up its minesweeping operations in the Strait of Hormuz, where underwater Iranian explosives have kept the oil chokepoint shut for weeks, President Trump said Thursday.

US forces seized a Guyana-flagged tanker transporting Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean, the War Department confirmed Thursday.

Golnaz Naraghi, 37, and Venus Hosseininejad, 28, have been out on bail since late March, according to the Iran Human Rights organization in Oslo.

Three container ships were hit by Iranian gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, hours after President Trump announced he was indefinitely extending a cease-fire with the Islamic Republic.