Authority restored, Ukraine agency charges six with arms-related corruption

Netanyahu fires attorney general as domestic pressure over Gaza heats up

Israel’s cabinet voted to dismiss the attorney general, a key Netanyahu critic, as the U.S. grows increasingly impatient with the war in Gaza. ...

Sanctions bill targets China for enabling Putin’s war in Ukraine

The bipartisan legislation was introduced as tensions soared between Washington and Moscow, which has spurned President Donald Trump’s bid to end the Ukraine war....

Russia warns against threats after Trump repositions nuclear submarines

The first official statement from the Kremlin about Trump’s move seemed to distance Russian President Vladimir Putin from Dmitry Medvedev’s inflammatory comments....

Locals beg for Putin’s help as Russian-occupied Ukraine runs out of water

Acute water shortages in occupied areas of eastern Ukraine, and angry residents’ appeals for help, contradict propaganda suggesting life is pleasant under Russian control....

They were victims of a forgotten war in east Ukraine. Then came Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Long before Russia’s 2022 invasion, war simmered in eastern Ukraine and these three families found a way to survive — until the fighting forced them to leave home....

U.S. envoy tells Israeli families of plan to bring all the hostages home

Special envoy Steve Witkoff says the U.S. has a plan to bring home all the remaining hostages held by Hamas and that an end to the war is near....

Where are the world’s nuclear weapons, and who owns them?

Recent threats by Russia and President Donald Trump’s deployment of nuclear submarines have brought renewed attention to the world’s nuclear stockpiles....

In a Ukrainian maternity ward, a Russian missile delivered death

A missile killed Diana Koshyk and her unborn son in the hospital where she was being treated, near a building Ukrainian soldiers used as a warehouse....

Trump says he repositioned nuclear subs in veiled threat to Russia

The action came after former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev referenced the Soviet Union’s emergency nuclear strike capabilities in a post criticizing Trump....

Derk Sauer, an independent force in Russian media, dies at 72

The Amsterdam native became a media magnate in Russia, where he founded the English-language Moscow Times and was later harassed by the authorities....

After Trump’s Ukraine pivot, Senate panel moves to fund more military aid

Bipartisan groups in Congress are attempting to preserve a weapons procurement program for Ukraine that the Trump administration proposed eliminating....

16 dead in Kyiv, including 6-year-old, after overnight Russian strikes

Kyiv officials said at least 12 children were injured in the capital by the strikes, the highest number in any night since the Russian invasion began in 2022....

Ukraine adopts new anti-corruption law as protests force Zelensky to retreat

The Ukrainian parliament acted to undo changes to two anti-corruption offices after mass protests forced President Volodymyr Zelensky to reverse course....

India’s revision of voter rolls could disenfranchise millions, critics warn

A hastily organized effort to revise voter rolls in the eastern state of Bihar has been marked by technical glitches, absent documents and widespread confusion....

Why one of the world’s biggest earthquakes wasn’t followed by a monster tsunami

Past strong earthquakes have caused massive and damaging waves far away, but scientists say these tsunami waves were tame by comparison across the Pacific basin....

Tsunami waves reach Hawaii, California after 8.8-magnitude Russia quake

The year’s strongest earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings and advisories in Hawaii, California, Oregon and Washington....

Latin and South America prepare for tsunami warnings

Earthquake off Russia’s coast is among strongest ever recorded

Gaza airdrops deliver a fraction of what trucks could, aid groups warn

Israel’s decision to allow Gaza airdrops to resume comes with risks and high costs, and experts say it’s not enough to meet acute need amid a starvation crisis....

What to do if there’s a tsunami warning

Tsunami warnings and alerts have been issued for the U.S. West Coast and countries across the Pacific, including Japan. Here’s what to know if you receive one....

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began....

More than 60,000 people killed in Gaza war, local health officials say

The toll announced by the Gaza Health Ministry is likely to be an undercount as Israel pursues its war and starvation spreads....

Russian strikes on Ukraine kill dozens, despite Trump push for ceasefire

The overnight attacks came after President Donald Trump expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin and brought closer the deadline for a ceasefire....

Trump-E.U. trade accord will raise cost of many U.S. imports

The preliminary deal imposes 15 percent tariffs on most E.U. goods, averts a trade war and leaves many details unresolved, including on wine and spirits. Here are industries on the line....

Warming oceans drive tuna from Pacific islands

Climate change poses an existential threat to Tuvalu. Not only are rising seas causing people to leave, but warming waters are forcing out tuna, the lifeblood of the economy....

Trump administration to destroy birth control intended as aid

Belgium, the United Nations and aid groups say they have offered to save $9.7 million in supplies kept in a Belgian warehouse....

Iran’s leaders reach back to pre-Islamic times to stoke nationalism

Officials in the Islamic republic are seeking to rally a population rattled by war and increasingly averse to the Muslim theocracy’s dominant ideology....

Binge, borrow and deal: Europe digs deep to buy U.S. arms for Ukraine

European nations like Germany and Norway say they will spend billions on U.S. weapons for Ukraine under a deal with the Trump administration....

Russia rules out Putin-Zelensky meeting until end of peace talks

The announcement appears to preclude any kind of top-level meeting or breakthrough ahead of the 50-day deadline for an agreement given by President Donald Trump....

A minister’s death tells Russia’s elite it is no longer untouchable

Starovoit’s apparent suicide suggests fundamental changes inside the Kremlin, where high-level officials caught in corruption cases were once allowed to flee the country....