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Jose Colon/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense systems put on alert in Poland in response to Russia’s latest overnight drone and missile strikes in Ukraine, the Armed [Read More…]

Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Eurovision Song Contest slogan is “United By Music,” but the music competition’s organizers are seeing some cracks in that unity. A discordant note has been [Read More…]

Russian President Vladimir Putin begin a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin, aimed at finding a solution to end the Ukraine war, in [Read More…]

People gather for a rally marking one year since citizens blocked former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration, in front of the National Assembly on December 03, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. (Hwawon Lee/Anadolu [Read More…]

Charles McQuillan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Kremlin on Wednesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin hadn’t outright rejected the latest version of the U.S.-backed plan at his Tuesday meeting with American officials, but added that [Read More…]

Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The family of a Colombian fisherman who died in a U.S. military boat strike in September has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission [Read More…]

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference after the Summit of Collective Security Treaty Organization, on November 27, 2025 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia is [Read More…]

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference after the Summit of Collective Security Treaty Organization, on November 27, 2025 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images) (KHARKIV, Ukraine and LONDON) — President Donald [Read More…]

Diego Fedele/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia launched overnight a deadly aerial strike on the Ukrainian capital, killing at least one person, injuring 19 others and damaging residential buildings, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine said early [Read More…]

Li Peiyun/VCG via Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll following a massive fire that ripped through several Hong Kong high-rises has climbed to 146 people, the Hong Kong police on Sunday. Speaking at a [Read More…]

Nikolas Mhtrousias/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ukraine is sending a high-level delegation to the U.S. on Saturday for more talks on the Trump administration’s new peace plan, ahead of White House envoy Steve [Read More…]

Beyza Binnur Dönmez/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Andriy Yermak, his chief of staff, has resigned after anti-corruption searches on his home and office on Friday morning. Zelenskyy announced [Read More…]

Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A month after a massacre that was reported in a war-ravaged city of Sudan shocked the world, the United Nations and others are warning that there’s nowhere near enough [Read More…]

Ayush Kumar/Getty Images (LONDON) — A woman has died, and a man was seriously injured after a shark attack off Australia’s east coast, police said Friday. Emergency services were called to a beach at Crowdy [Read More…]

Dukas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Authorities on the Caribbean island of Tobago say they’re investigating the death of an American man who was found fatally stabbed on Wednesday. The victim was [Read More…]

Contributor#8523328/Getty Images (LONDON and KYIV, Ukraine)– Russian President Vladimir Putin said a U.S. delegation is expected to arrive in Moscow in the first half of next week to discuss the latest American proposal to end [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON and KYIV, Ukraine) — Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared last week to be cautiously optimistic on the U.S. 28-point peace plan to end his invasion of Ukraine, but statements made by his [Read More…]

VCG/VCG via Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll from the massive fire at a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong rose to 55 as of Thursday, as search and rescue efforts continued. Fifty-one of [Read More…]

Thick smoke and flames rise as fire engulfs high-rise residential buildings at the Wang Fuk Court complex on November 26, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. At least 13 people are dead and dozens of others [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON and KYIV, Ukraine) — The Kremlin’s top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, confirmed there is a “preliminary agreement” for U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff — and likely Jared Kushner [Read More…]