European stocks closed lower on Friday, as investors continued to weigh the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and its lasting impact on growth. The pan-European Stoxx 600 provisionally closed 0.5% lower,

The Trump administration on Thursday issued a new license allowing countries to temporarily purchase certain Russian oil products, the latest efforts by the US to mitigate surging crude prices following the war it launched with Iran.

Brazil’s President Lula says his government has revoked the visa of a U.S. State Department official in a tit-for-tat dispute. On Friday, Lula calls it a reciprocal step after the United

Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Enrique Marset Cabrera, known as the "King of the South," was captured Friday in Bolivia and flown to the U.S.

Israel bombed oil depots in Tehran, leading to thick toxic smoke and acid rain falling over the capital's nine million people.

The war is expanding into Lebanon, as an Israeli offensive to dismantle Hezbollah has displaced 800,000 people there, with more than 680 people killed.

An engineer crouches under a park bench as fighter jets roar overhead. An athlete wracked by anxiety can't sleep as explosions go off. With the internet shut down, families and friends rely on each other for news about the war and the latest damage caused by airstrikes.

Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's airport of Kandahar, the ruling Taliban said on Friday (March 13), stepping up the neighbors' worst conflict in years, despite China's efforts to mediate.