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Russia attacked Ukraine's port infrastructure and a ​border crossing with Romania in the southern Black Sea ‌region of Odesa overnight, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.

Germany's ministers for the interior and for foreign affairs plan to ​announce on Tuesday that Russian intelligence ‌services were behind an attempted drone attack on a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle airport in early ​August, Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Russia launched waves of drones at Ukraine's capital Kyiv and surrounding region on Friday, damaging warehouses and homes in ​a second consecutive day of strikes Ukrainian officials said were an attempt to derail ‌daily life for millions of residents.

A Dutch court on Friday sentenced a 67-year-old man to life in prison for war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda in ​1994, where it said he had been involved in the killing ‌of around 3,000 Tutsis who had sought refuge from Hutu attacks at a stadium.

A drone attack caused a massive fire ​that destroyed a warehouse run by Russian ‌e-commerce giant Wildberries, officials said early on Wednesday, as Ukraine pushes ahead with its campaign to hurt Moscow's economy ​by targeting online retailers.

The governor of Russia's Orenburg region said on Sunday that two ​industrial facilities were hit by drone ‌debris, including a warehouse owned by Ozon , a major Russian online retailer.

Russia downed 180 drones in ​the Moscow region overnight, the capital's ‌mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said on the Telegram messaging app early on Tuesday, in ​one of the biggest Ukrainian ​air attacks on the Russian capital.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party will choose its candidates to fight in October elections on Monday, with analysts saying a shift further to the ​right by many members could threaten the Israeli leader's chances of winning.

A major Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk hit warships at a naval base and forced two major grain terminals to halt operations on Wednesday, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials as well as grain industry sources.

Romanian army divers destroyed two Gerbera-type drones drifting in the country's Black Sea exclusive economic zone near the ​offshore gas project Neptun Deep, Defence Minister Radu Miruta said ‌on Tuesday.

A Syrian court ​sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary arrest ‌during the country's nearly 14-year war.

Pope Leo on Sunday said innocent people are being killed and wounded in Ukraine and ​Russia, and called for an end to the ‌conflict.

Russian-backed disinformation campaigns are escalating in Germany ahead of state elections, ‌often targeting local political rivals of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, German security sources said.

Three crew members were seriously injured after ​a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship ‌was hit in a drone attack near Russia's Black Sea ​port of Novorossiysk, Turkey's ​maritime authority said late on ⁠Monday.

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one child and injured two others on Sunday in a playground in the ​Russian border region of Belgorod, the acting regional ‌governor said, with a top Russian rights official denouncing the incident as an "inhumane terrorist act".

Two Ukrainian drones hit and ​sank a civilian vessel owned by ‌Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom sailing in the Black Sea overnight, the company's head, ​Alexei Likhachev, said in a ​statement on Saturday.

Israeli forces shot and wounded at least one Palestinian, ‌arrested at least three, and closed entrances to the village of Tal in the occupied West Bank on Friday as more than 100 Israeli settlers marched towards the village, residents said.

Moscow's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Romanian complaints that Russian drones have violated its airspace ​were groundless and vowed to respond to Bucharest's ‌expulsion of a Russian diplomat.

The U.S. walked out as France addressed a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Monday, accusing its longtime ally of "disingenuous grandstanding" over ​French comments comparing the U.S. to North Korea, Russia and other authoritarian ‌states regarding votes on human rights issues.

Russian ballistic missiles struck at ​least two districts in the Ukrainian capital ‌Kyiv early on Thursday, triggering fires and killing two people, officials said.

Russia on Tuesday accused Ukraine of terrorism over its escalating attacks on shipping in the Sea of Azov, a route ‌that handles about a quarter of its grain exports.

Ukraine's parliament accepted the resignation on Tuesday of Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who stepped down after just a year in office at ​the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a reshuffle for which he ‌has offered little explanation.

The European Union pledged on Monday aid worth €120 ​million ($137.14 million) to strengthen the ‌air defence system of Moldova.

EU countries have yet ​to reach agreement on a broad ‌21st package of sanctions against Russia, but may decide on Monday to add 250 ​individuals and entities to their ​Russia sanctions list, EU foreign policy ⁠chief Kaja Kallas said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that officials who allowed weapons warehouses to operate ​in a residential area outside Kyiv where ‌explosions killed 10 people had been identified and would be held accountable.

The whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei have been a mystery to Iranians and the rest of the world alike since his appointment as supreme leader a week after the strike that killed his father at the end of February.

Russia hammered Ukraine with missiles and drones early on Monday, killing at least 26 people and ‌exposing Kyiv's critical shortage of U.S.-made interceptors, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.

An Austrian court on Monday convicted a former Syrian intelligence chief from Raqqa of offences including torture and sexual assault over the ​mistreatment of opponents of then‑leader Bashar al‑Assad more than a decade ‌ago.

Russia's second city of St Petersburg and the surrounding ‌region came under a major Ukrainian drone attack overnight on Saturday, with a local port and oil infrastructure hit, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said, as Kyiv's drone strikes continue to deepen fuel shortages in Russia.

Russian attacks killed three people on Thursday in different regions of eastern Ukraine, ​regional officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had earlier warned of a possible overnight attack.

Polish special services are preparing for possible Russian sabotage operations aimed at inflaming tensions between Poles and Ukrainians, Tomasz Siemoniak, ​minister in charge of special services, told RMF FM Radio ‌on Wednesday.

A tanker reported being struck by a projectile in the Strait ​of Hormuz as the warring sides accused each other of violating an interim peace deal.

The U.N. nuclear ​watchdog will carry out inspections in Iran soon following an interim peace accord between the United States and ‌Iran, its chief Rafael Grossi said on Wednesday, although Tehran later indicated that access to key sites remained contingent on a final agreement and sanctions lifting...

Diplomats running the International Criminal Court's oversight body have decided that prosecutor Karim Khan had an inappropriate ​sexual relationship with a junior staff member and should be fired, two copies of its decision showed.

A conflict between politicians in Poland and Ukraine is a strategic mistake that ​will harm both sides, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said ‌on Sunday, seeking to defuse a rekindled dispute over events that occurred during World War Two.

The U.S. military on ​Sunday said it struck a vessel in the ‌Caribbean, killing two people, alleging that the vessel was operated by "designated terrorist organizations" that it ​did not identify.

President Karol ‌Nawrocki earlier stripped Volodymyr Zelenskiy of Poland's top honor over a historical dispute over World War Two.

Iran said that the closure was the first step in response to what it described as breaches of commitments and ​warned that ​further measures ⁠would be taken if aggression continued.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte hosted U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday at the Palace of Versailles, once the ​opulent residence of Louis XIV, the Sun King, as part of efforts ‌to improve transatlantic relations.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was willing to send his interim deal to end the war with ​Iran for review by the U.S. Congress, as lawmakers, including many of his fellow Republicans, said they were largely in the dark ‌about the pact.

The European Union targeted ​Russian shadow fleet figures accused of aiding Moscow's Ukraine war effort ‌as well as individuals linked to opposition figure Alexei Navalny's murder as it expanded its sanctions list on Monday.

One person was killed ​and nine more were ‌injured on Sunday after Ukrainian drones ​hit an apartment ​building in the Russian ⁠city of Oryol, ​south of Moscow, ​the regional governor said.

While the Justice Department has said it has abandoned plans for Trump's proposed $1.8 billion "weaponization" fund, some of his allies are shifting focus to a different way to make payouts to his supporters, including those who took part in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

The United States and Iran signalled on Friday that an agreement to end their war was ​close, with a senior U.S. administration official saying both sides had agreed on a text and that Washington expects to sign an initial deal in the coming days.

Fuel stations on the Russian-held Crimean peninsula ​were out of petrol on Thursday, Reuters witnesses said, as a Ukrainian campaign against supply lines ‌to the peninsula escalates.

Russia said on Wednesday that the question of whether Armenia remains part of a military alliance of former Soviet states and a separate economic grouping must be settled quickly, ​against a background of growing tensions between Moscow and Yerevan.

U.S. President ​Donald Trump ‌said on Wednesday ​that he ​might not renew ⁠the ​USMCA free ​trade deal with Canada and ​Mexico.

A longstanding political stalemate in the U.S. Congress over money for immigration enforcement ended on Tuesday, when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a $70 billion bill ​to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol through the ​remainder of President D...

U.S. President Donald Trump said early on Tuesday that ​the pilots of a U.S. Army ‌Apache helicopter that went down near the Strait of Hormuz "are fine."...

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday said Russian magnate Roman Abramovich had met him in Kyiv and offered to take a message to the Kremlin on peace prospects, but ​the Ukrainian leader reiterated that his government would not abandon its Donbas region.

Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late ‌on Thursday in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law.

Thousands ​of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana on Tuesday night protesting against ‌a development planned by a company linked with Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast.

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles early on Tuesday in a heavy attack that authorities said killed 22 people and wounded more ​than 100.

European Union lawmakers and governments agreed on Monday on new rules allowing countries to send ‌migrants ordered to leave the bloc to centres in third countries, a move that has drawn sharp criticism from rights groups that warn it could enable abuses.

The U.S. plans to accelerate the withdrawal of troops from bases in Europe ​and will present its proposals to ‌NATO allies next month, German newspaper Welt am Sonntag reported on Saturday, citing an ​unidentified Pentagon source.

Russia has intensified covert efforts to undermine the leader of Armenia’s bid for re-election next month, fearing his victory could lock in the former Soviet republic’s realignment with the West, according to Western intelligence and ​government officials.

The write-off is about ​the price of a 35 square metre studio-type apartment in Moscow.

Police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters in central Belgrade on Saturday, as tens of thousands gathered to demand early elections ​and an end to the more than decade-long rule of Serbia's populist President ‌Aleksandar Vucic.

Ukraine's most skilled military drone pilots squared off this week not against Russia, but against each other in a competition to win bragging rights and state-of-the-art hardware for their units.

U.S. President Donald Trump ​surprised NATO allies by pledging to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, but Secretary of State Marco Rubio cautioned alliance ‌ministers that Washington's frustration with some of them would still need to be discussed.

The Russia-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region was experiencing emergency ​power blackouts on Friday, Russia-installed governor Yevgeny Balitsky ‌was quoted as saying by the Kommersant newspaper.

Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin has called for a thorough investigation into the death of a Congolese-born man after he ​was restrained outside a Dublin department store, an incident that has shocked ‌the country's small Congolese community.

The Philippine Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Senator Ronald dela Rosa for a temporary restraining order ​to prevent his arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court.

The Trump administration is planning ​to tell NATO allies this week that it will shrink the pool of military capabilities that the U.S. would have available ‌to assist the alliance's European nations in a major crisis, three sources familiar with the matter said.

President Donald Trump said on Monday ‌there was a “very good chance” the United States could reach an agreement with Iran ​to prevent Tehran from obtaining ​a nuclear weapon, hours after saying ⁠he had postponed a planned military ​attack to allow negotiations to continue.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Sergio Mattarella travelled to the northern city of Modena on ​Sunday, a day after several people were injured in a car-ramming incident that ‌was the first of its kind in the country.

Ukraine resumed drone attacks on Russia's oil refineries and ports.

Ukrainian President ​Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia's proclamation of a limited ceasefire for its World ‌War Two commemorations exposed the "strange and inappropriate" logic of its leaders.

Georgia sentenced ten people, including a prominent opera singer, to lengthy prison sentences on Thursday after finding them guilty of attempting to overthrow the government and organising violence ​at large rallies during municipal elections last year, in a case critics say underscores ‌a widening ...

The man accused of lobbing gasoline bombs at a pro-Israel rally last year in Boulder, Colorado, killing one ‌person and leaving more than a dozen others injured, pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges he faced in state court.

The U.S. military said on ​Monday that it ‌struck a vessel in the Caribbean, killing ​two people, alleging ​that the vessel struck ⁠was operated ​by "designated terrorist organizations" that ​it did not identify.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a ​two-day ceasefire in the conflict with Ukraine on May 8-9 to mark Russia’s World War Two victory, but Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy countered with his own proposed pause in fighting starting earlier, on the night of May 5‑6.

Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on targets across Russia on ‌Sunday, hitting the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and setting it on fire, and striking a number of vessels, as it steps up attacks on energy infrastructure and other targets.

U.S. President ​Donald ​Trump told reporters ⁠on ​Saturday that ​there is the possibility ​the ​United States could ‌restart ⁠strikes on Iran.