The diplomatic outreach was part of an effort to push talks to end the war in Ukraine, though it was not welcome by all European leaders.

A limited cease-fire started Tuesday in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine, where people have been trapped without supplies for years.

The US military has ⁠spent ⁠over $47 billion so far to ⁠prosecute the war in Iran, more than 25% higher than the Defense Department's ​estimate in July, according to Pentagon data obtained by Reuters.

Extreme heat is also taking a toll on the global economy, the report found.

Soccer star Kylian Mbappé apologized for comments in which he apparently referred to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communist China, as a dictator, after facing backlash and losing brand deals with at least three different Chinese companies.

King Charles III has arrived in the Bahamas as part of a nine-day trip to the Caribbean, where he faces calls for an apology and slavery reparations. It’s his first official visit to the Bahamas

Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi – who was facing a one-year prison sentence – has now been sentenced by a Tehran Revolutionary Court to five years and one month in jail in a separate ruling, according to the Emtedad News Agency, an online Iranian reformist media outlet. Panahi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili told Emtedad […]

The deployment comes after a foreign national was beaten to death by a mob during an anti-immigrant protest last week.