US President Donald Trump said he plans to declare the Strait of Hormuz a US territory. Follow for live news updates.

Five years after regaining power, the hard-line Islamist regime has formalized a women’s rights rollback in a sprawling penal code that experts say makes it almost impossible for women to escape abuse.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning. No casualties or damage were immediately reported.

Myanmar’s military-backed government says it has verified that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state.

Artworks by Henri Mattise, Paul Cezanne and Pierre-August Renoir stolen in two separate cases have been recovered in Brazil and Italy.

A ​parliamentary standards ‌investigation into Reform UK ​leader Nigel ​Farage was listed ⁠as ​active on ​the UK parliament's website, after ​previously ​being shown as ‌suspended, ⁠according to an update ​published ​on ⁠Friday.

As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents stressed that the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.

A top court in France on Friday struck down a law banning children under 15 from using social media, saying it infringes on fundamental freedoms. The Constitutional Council ruled that provisions in the ban “disproportionately infringe freedom of expression and communication" and haven't provided legal guarantees to ensure those rights,