People in Venezuela and abroad are desperately searching for loved ones after two powerful earthquakes struck Wednesday evening

Like Venezuela, California sits on a major tectonic plate boundary, making it vulnerable to significant seismic activity. A rare pair of powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela just a minute apart — killing at least 188 people — is raising new questions for Californians about whether a similar back-to-back quake could hit the Golden State.

Adriana Loureiro Fernandez, a photographer for The New York Times, describes the scene on the ground after the Venezuelan earthquakes.

Turkish ⁠Foreign Minister ​Hakan Fidan ‌discussed the ‌earthquakes ⁠in Venezuela ⁠and the country's ​need for ​aid in a ⁠call with ⁠his ⁠Venezuelan counterpart Yvan ​Gil on ​Thursday, ⁠a Turkish ⁠foreign ministry source said.

Iran hit a cargo ship with a projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Former CIA officer and Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman joins with analysis.

The two countries, which ended ‌a first round of negotiations in Switzerland on Monday, have offered conflicting accounts about control.

Iranian authorities ordered at least three oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz to turn back, and two additional ships appeared to reverse course as well, maritime intelligence company Windward said Thursday.

Iran attacked a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a U.S. official confirmed, leading a United Nations agency to pause an evacuation effort.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine will ramp up attacks on Russia in an operation "aimed at compelling it to end the war."

Ukraine will carry ⁠out ⁠preemptive attacks on ⁠facilities Russia is using for its ​war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his evening ‌address on Wednesday, as ‌Kyiv expands strikes on energy infrastructure ⁠in ⁠an attempt to force Moscow into talks.

Ukraine has launched fresh attacks on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula, killing at least two people, according to the Moscow-appointed authorities in the region. Sergey Aksyonov, the

Russia claims its forces have destroyed a key Ukrainian drone warfare center while also announcing the capture of Ivolzhanskoye in the Sumy region. The Russian Defense Ministry says the strike targeted an unmanned systems facility operated by Ukraine's special operations forces,

The Supreme Court ’s decision allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to end temporary legal protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants may affect people from many other countries.

The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Thursday backed restrictive Trump administration policies affecting temporary protected status for some migrants. The high court also sided with the administration on the methods of seeking asylum.

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to end temporary deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals from Haiti and Syria.

The Supreme Court of the United States has allowed President Donald Trump to end deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government is giving priority to strengthening the world's first laws that ban children younger than 16 from social media platforms. Observers

Australia's prime minister vowed on Friday to bullet-proof laws ⁠supporting ⁠a social media ban for under-16s as the ⁠government prepares legal action against platforms amid a steady stream of evidence that the ban has had little ​impact on teen use.

Australia's prime minister said Friday (June 26) he was keen to make sure the country's social media ban for children was as strong as possible, as a new study found that the measure, the first of its kind and now six months old,

Australia's social media ban for under 16s has had little impact on teenagers' scrolling habits, researchers said Thursday in one of the first evaluations of the world-leading measures.

Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials say deaths linked to the heat are being seen among young people.

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.

France is broiling under the largest heat alert ever issued, as authorities grapple with an unrelenting and deadly heatwave. Red alerts are also in place across Europe, from Spain to the U.K. NBC’s

Temperatures in Germany could hit 40C in some areas while French officials bring in alcohol restrictions to ease pressure on hospitals.