Iranian state media describe the confrontation as ‘tense’, while US military says the encounter was ‘professional’. Iran has said it warned a United States Navy destroyer to change course as it approached Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf of Oman, but the US has claimed the confrontation was “professional” and had “no impact” on its naval mission. Iranian state media published video and images of Wednesday’s incident –...

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Two civilians reported killed in Cambodian shelling of Thailand as Southeast Asian neighbours clash over long-running border dispute. At least two civilians have been reported killed in Thailand and two Thai soldiers injured in heavy clashes with Cambodian troops at a disputed area of their shared border. Thailand’s military said on Thursday that Cambodian troops had opened fire earlier in an area near the disputed...

Settlement marks victory in US President Donald Trump’s efforts to exert greater control over third-level education. Columbia University, one of the top educational institutions in the United States, has agreed to pay $221m to settle claims by US President Donald Trump’s administration that it failed to police anti-Semitism on campus. Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Columbia will see the “vast majority” of $400m in federal grants frozen...