With Iran flexing its might, President Trump appears to be weighing military options again, after rejecting plans to escalate.

President Donald Trump issued yet another set of threats toward Iran on Wednesday, vowing to hit the country “hard” one day after the U.S. military said it had intercepted Iranian strikes. The president has repeatedly made these types of threats as the war against Iran has dragged on.

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States paused attacks on Iran for negotiations; Iran says there are no new negotiations.

President Trump on U.S. not withdrawing from Iran war: "There's very little they can do about it...we got to smack them a little bit." REPORTER: On what scenario do you see Iran attacking U.S. installations and personnel overseas and you withdrawing?

More than 250,000 people across the two countries have been forced to evacuate, and the European Commission has said that Europe’s firefighting capacity is struggling to keep pace with what is proving to be an intense wildfire year.

Firefighters in Spain and France are racing to control wildfires with both countries set to experience heat waves. Follow for live updates.

Heat waves and scant rainfall in Europe have contributed to historic wildfires in France and Spain that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in one of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II.

Dozens of communities are still threatened by wildfires that forced more than 70,000 to evacuate their homes over the last week in France. Spain has ended some evacuation orders, allowing about 44,000 people to return home or leave confinement.

Russia launched ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine in the early hours Thursday, hours after warning of an attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy responded to comments made by President Trump, who suggested that Ukraine started the war and not Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion nearly three years ago.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the White House, where they discussed Ukraine's air defenses.

President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said their meeting at the White House went well. The two discussed licenses for Patriot interceptor missiles and diplomacy with Russia. CBS News' Aidan Stretch has more.

Rescue operations were under way at a shopping mall and over 200,000 people in the region were issued with evacuation orders.

Some of the most serious damage was at the Aeon Mall shopping center in Kashima city, which was bustling with thousands of people when the quake happened. The company said some 3,

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Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses on Wednesday looking for trapped survivors after a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan.

British Prime Minister Andy ​Burnham said on ‌Wednesday he would stick to the Labour ​Party manifesto ​promises on tax as ⁠he seeks to ​reform the funding ​of adult social care in England.

Britain's new Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the debate over legalising assisted dying should wait until the ​country's palliative care and adult social care systems have ‌been fixed.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will meet opposition party leaders on Wednesday to kickstart his effort to reform the UK’s creaking social care system.

In a speech, the prime minister calls for a "national care service" and says he wants to "lift up" the workforce through pay and training.

Hong's rise in the Wisconsin Democratic primary has exposed a sharp divide, with some voters saying they would cross party lines in November rather than support a DSA-aligned candidate.

Hong's candidacy could become the most significant test yet for Democratic socialists in a critical battleground state.

Wisconsin on Tuesday opened up early in-person voting for its primary elections, which include a chaotic five-way Democratic gubernatorial race and the party’s attempt to flip the state’s government

Democrats casting in-person absentee ballots Tuesday in Wisconsin’s chaotic Democratic primary for governor are divided over whether a democratic socialist could prevail in the swing state’s general election,