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.

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.

Technology stocks mostly rebounded on Wednesday amid choppy trading following a global selloff in the previous session.

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.

Russian-installed authorities in Crimea have halted fuel distribution in vacation season as Ukraine isolates the peninsula.

North Korea has entered a new era of naval power that will project its nuclear capabilities, Kim Jong Un said Tuesday as he unveiled a 5,000-ton destroyer.

Peru's right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori built what may be an unassailable lead as vote counting for the runoff election entered its final stages, official figures showed.