Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will sit down Sunday with Donald Trump and seek to secure the U.S. president's stamp of approval for a new proposal to end the nearly four-year conflict with Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet President Donald Trump in Florida this weekend, but Russia accused the Ukrainian president and his EU backers Friday of seeking to "torpedo" a U.S.-brokered plan to stop the fighting.
An explosion killed at least eight worshippers at a mosque in a predominantly Alawite area of Syria's Homs on Friday, state media said, with an extremist group claiming responsibility.
The Japanese government has indicated that it could collaborate with Türkiye to utilize the $640 million allocated for coastal defense from its newly approved $58 billion defense budget.
U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff informed Israel and mediators that the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan is expected to begin in early January, Israeli media has reported.
Aspiring prime minister and political heavyweight Tarique Rahman was welcomed back to Bangladesh Thursday by huge crowds of joyous supporters after 17 years in self-imposed exile.
The United States Justice Department said on Dec. 23 that it may need a “few more weeks” to release all of its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after suddenly discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents, further delaying compliance with Dec. 19’s congressionally mandated deadline.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a nuclear submarine factory and received a message from Russia's Vladimir Putin hailing the countries' "invincible friendship," Pyongyang's state media said Thursday.
Hundreds of worshippers gathered for mass at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Wednesday night as the Palestinian city ushered in its first festive Christmas in more than two years, emerging from the shadow of the war in Gaza.
Pope Leo XIV condemned the "senselessness" of war and the "open wounds" it leaves behind, as he delivered his first Christmas message on Thursday after a year marked by conflict but also hopes for peace in Gaza and Ukraine.
Ukraine won some limited concessions in the latest version of a U.S.-led draft plan to end the Russian invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed, though key questions remain over territory and whether Moscow could accept the new terms.
A key leader of the ISIL terrorist group was captured late Wednesday in a joint operation by Syrian security forces and the U.S.-led international coalition against terrorism in the countryside of the Syrian capital Damascus.
Fourteen countries, including France, Britain, and Germany, condemned on Wednesday Israel's recent approval of new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
Kosovo and Serbia need to "normalize" their relations, Kosovo's Prime Minister Albin Kurti told AFP on Dec. 24, several days before legislative elections where he is seeking to extend his term with more solid backing.
El Salvador's leader Nayib Bukele on Dec. 23 defended a huge prison that has become key to deportations from the United States under President Donald Trump, after drawing criticism for alleged rights abuses.
A Cambodian official accused Thailand of destroying a Hindu statue in a disputed border area, after more than two weeks of military clashes between the neighbors.
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