Ukrainian forces have launched a new effort to land troops on the left bank of the Dnipro river in the 77th week of the war.
Britain announced it will build 12 new attack submarines as it launched a major defence review to move the country to “war-fighting readiness” in the face of “Russian aggression” and the changing nature of conflict....
At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks, derailing an approaching train in Russia’s Bryansk region that borders Ukraine, Russian authorities said....
Russia rejected an unconditional ceasefire with Ukraine at peace negotiations between the two sides held in Istanbul on Monday, a Kyiv negotiator, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said....
Greenpeace activists on Monday stole a wax figure of French President Emmanuel Macron from a Paris museum and placed it in front of the Russian embassy as part of a pro-Ukraine protest....
Ukraine’s overnight drone attacks on Russia’s Kursk and Voronezh regions sparked residential fires and disrupted traffic on a major highway, regional officials said....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that Russia was engaging in “yet another deception” by failing to hand over its peace settlement proposal ahead of a potential meeting between Moscow and Kyiv....
Water trapped behind a mass of glacial debris that this week buried a village and blocked a river in southern Switzerland has sparked warnings that further evacuations may be needed amid the risk of flooding in the Alpine valley....
US President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, said Russia’s concern over the eastward enlargement of NATO was fair and the United States did not want to see Ukraine in the US-led military alliance....
Israel said on Wednesday its military killed Mohammed Sinwar, Hamas’s presumed Gaza leader and the brother of Yahya, the slain mastermind of the October 2023 attacks that sparked the Gaza war....
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hold off from striking Iran as he voiced optimism about nuclear talks his administration is holding with Tehran....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a three-way summit with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin as he seeks to force Moscow to halt its three-year invasion....
President Donald Trump marked the annual day for honouring the US war dead on Monday by tearing into his “scum” opponents and judges who don’t rule in his favour....
Russian drone attacks injured three people in Ukraine’s south and southeast overnight, Ukrainian officials said....
Israeli police were deploying near the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City on Monday ahead of an annual event marking Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, held this year under the shadow of the war in Gaza....
Pope Leo XIV held his first private audience as Catholic leader with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, after highlighting the hopes for peace for a “martyred Ukraine”....
The UN Security Council is due to vote in late May on whether to renew an arms embargo on South Sudan for another year. Amnesty International is warning that the conflict could worsen without it....
US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “crazy” after Moscow launched a deadly barrage of drones against Ukraine, even as the warring countries completed a large-scale prisoner exchange....
Palestinian rescuers said an Israeli strike at dawn on Monday killed 13 people at a Gaza City school, as Israel presses ahead with what it has described as a renewed push to destroy Hamas....
Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday on the second day of an extended prisoner swap set to be the largest in the three-year war....
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday steered clear of calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” saying the priority was negotiations to end the Ukraine conflict....
The United States will bear legal responsibility in the event of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday, following a CNN report that Israel might be preparing strikes on Iran....
Flash flooding on Australia’s southeast coast has killed two people and cut off towns, isolating tens of thousands of residents, as officials warned more downpours were expected over the next 24 hours....
Israeli troops fired “warning shots” during a visit by foreign diplomats to the occupied West Bank....
Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a call with US President Donald Trump on Monday, said that efforts to end the war in Ukraine were on the right track and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum about future peace accord....
Pope Leo XIV set the tone for his papacy on Sunday with a call to stop exploiting nature and marginalising the poor at a mass attended by world dignitaries, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President JD Vance....
Russia launched on Sunday its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, destroying homes and killing at least one woman a day before US President Donald Trump is due to discuss a proposed ceasefire with Russia’s Vladimir Putin....
NATO chief Mark Rutte said that he was “cautiously optimistic” for progress toward peace in Ukraine, but that it was up to Russia to take the “next steps necessary”....
Three Ukrainians have been arrested over a plot to mail exploding parcels from Germany to Ukraine, prosecutors said, putting Europe’s cross-border postal network in the spotlight as a target of suspected Russian sabotage....
Russia has deliberately targeted hotels used by journalists covering its war on Ukraine, the NGOs Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Truth Hounds said, calling the strikes “war crimes”....
French President Emmanuel Macron said that France did not want to unleash “World War III” over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and vowed referendums on key issues as he outlined his aims for for the remaining two years of his mandate....
