The Israeli military has surrounded an underground base in Lebanon in which dozens of Hezbollah militants are trapped, Israeli officials said.

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.

A independent U.N. commission said Tuesday that the Israeli military had deliberately targeted children in Gaza, amounting to genocide, and in the West Bank, amounting to war crimes. The commission of inquiry,

Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political neophyte, will be Colombia’s next president after electoral authorities on Wednesday declared him the winner of Sunday’s runoff election.

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.

C.D. Donahue, the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan, is the latest in a long line of military departures.

A U.S. airstrike launched last week in northwest Syria killed a senior Islamic State leader, U.S. military officials announced Wednesday.

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