Spain reports 72 deaths as the Ceuta migrant crisis deepens, with intelligence officials saying Morocco allowed border controls to gradually relax.

Shares advanced in Europe and Asia on Wednesday after the U.S. stock market rallied to records, helped by strong corporate earnings reports and hopes for a deal setting the stage for talks that might eventually lead to an end to the war in Iran.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday named Denis Lyamin to head Russia's ​Unmanned Systems Forces, a newly established branch of the military ‌that will be responsible for drone warfare.

The five-car caravan crept down a gravel logging road as the day's last beams of golden light cut through the trees. About 20 forest defenders were making a stand in southwest Vancouver Island, at a spot where a logging company was expected to cut old-growth trees the following morning.

Search teams backed by military helicopters recovered the bodies of renowned British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and three other missing climbers on Wednesday, bringing the number of bodies recovered from Broad Peak to seven nearly a week after an avalanche swept away a 10-member international expedition,

A senior State Department official told reporters in a background briefing that it was a "reciprocal" action because Brazil has not approved President Donald Trump's nominee as ambassador to Brasilia.

He described the initiatives with what he called "non-traditional partners" as selective and limited to specific types of transnational crimes.

Taiwan has kicked off annual military exercises aimed at simulating a response to a potential Chinese invasion of the self-governed island Beijing claims as its own.