A strengthening heat wave is threatening to break temperature records from France and the UK to Spain and Germany, posing risks to transport, power systems and public health.

Authorities in France said Tuesday at least 40 people have drowned as residents flocked to beaches, rivers and lakes to escape the heat.

At least 18 people have died in France, including two children and three elderly people, amid the heatwave, as experts warn that climate change is making heatwaves more frequent and intense.

Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.

Four liquefied natural gas tankers controlled by Qatar were heading into the Strait of Hormuz on ‌Monday, despite a fall in ship traffic after Iran announced that it had again closed the waterway over the weekend,

The ⁠number ⁠of ships that passed ⁠through the Strait of Hormuz fell sharply ​on Sunday after Iran announced it had again closed the waterway, citing ‌Israeli and U.S. violations ‌of the interim peace deal,

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump warned Iran after the country threatened to again close the Strait of Hormuz.

President Trump was raising the heat on Iran, which said Saturday it was closing traffic through the Strait of Hormuz because of fighting in Lebanon. Trump told Fox News that he spoke with Iranian officials over night and warned that if they close the Strait they "won't have a country.

The United Kingdom faces its seventh prime minister in just over a decade after Keir Starmer announced he will step down.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced plans to step down as leader of the Labour Party after facing growing pressure to leave office. CBS News' Chris Livesay explains how local elections, reputational questions and other factors likely contributed to Starmer's decision.

Labour leader Andy Burnham is poised to take over as the UK’s prime minister following Keir Starmer’s resignation from office.

The new tally means Ukraine has roughly doubled the rate of targets it's hitting since 2025, with almost 820,000 strikes reported in all of that year.

Ukraine’s air defence forces intercepted 118 out of 135 Russian drones, although some strikes were recorded. The attack rages on.

Ukraine's strikes on refineries are no longer only producing dramatic images — they have disrupted a significant portion of Russian oil exports.

Moscow shot down dozens of drones in the early hours of Monday and briefly suspended flights at airports, authorities in the Russian capital said, just days after Ukraine hit the city's oil refinery again.

America lifted sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical exports for 60 days. This paves the way for America to import Iranian oil for the first time since Iran’s revolution in 1979. The temporary licence does not authorise sales to Cuba,

Iran has denied a claim by Vice-President JD Vance that it will allow nuclear inspectors back into the country, after the first round of talks between Washington and Tehran to reach a final deal to end the war.

The Trump administration temporarily lifted oil sanctions against Iran on Monday in a sharp reversal of U.S. policy that could provide Iran with an economic boon.

In a major reversal of U.S. policy, the Trump administration announced today that it was suspending oil sanctions against Iran for 60 days. The temporary move could provide Iran with an economic boost by allowing it to increase oil exports,

Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump-backed conservative candidate who has never held public office, narrowly won Colombia's presidential runoff election Sunday. CBS News correspondent Lilia Luciano reports.

He won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential elections on Sunday, with promises that a vote for him would mean a definitive crackdown on the country’s decades-long crisis of crime and armed conflict.

President Donald Trump had endorsed Abelardo de la Espriella, a political outsider who refers to himself as "The Tiger."

Eccentric, ostentatious and artistic, Abelardo de la Espriella is also a political neophyte who is poised to become Colombia’s next president after leaning into everything that makes him different from the conventional politician to win people’s support.