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The hours-long missile ‌and drone attack primarily targeted Kyiv and Kharkiv, and damaged 30 energy facilities, Zelenskiy said. At least 600,000 people were left without power.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had proposed ​new talks in the coming ‌days with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as Washington steps ​up efforts to bring ​Kyiv and Moscow back to negotiations.

The US military ​said on Saturday it had disabled a commercial ‌cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman after the ship's crew ignored warnings and attempted to run a ​naval blockade against Iran.

The Trump administration has long been hostile to the court and has previously imposed sanctions on its prosecutors and judges.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying on Thursday that Russia agreed ​with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that ‌the Ukraine conflict was in a stalemate.

US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must make a “meaningful” reduction ​in its nuclear enrichment capacity to satisfy US demands and end the countries’ seven-month war, even as Washington was unsure how Tehran makes decisions in negotiations.

The crew of a merchant ship was missing on Tuesday after ​the vessel sank in the Black Sea off NATO member Bulgaria following a drone strike that Prime Minister Rumen ‌Radev described as a gross violation of international law.

Iran's armed forces are prepared for any ​renewed U.S. attacks, state media quoted ‌army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia saying on Sunday, after US President Donald Trump said he rejected an ​Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait ​of Hormuz and end fighting.

Canada is giving ​C$100 million ‌in international assistance for ​Palestine, Prime ​Minister Mark Carney ⁠said ​on Tuesday.

France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he had discussed ​with US President Donald Trump initiatives aimed ‌at securing a moratorium between Ukraine and Russia on attacks linked to the energy sector.

The International Committee of the ‌Red Cross has been denied access to Ukrainian prisoners of war held in Russian detention for ​two years, it told Reuters on ​Friday.

A report said Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war ​in Ukraine, including gang rape and electric shocks to the genitals, while Ukrainian authorities were also responsible for a smaller ‌number of violations.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will ​not travel to ‌New York as planned next week because ​his presence is ​required in Berlin, a ⁠government source 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 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.

Each side blamed the other for derailing negotiations.

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.

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.

Canadamarked the opening of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, on Friday in a quiet celebration without U.S. officials after a dispute over ‌toll-sharing and new threats of 50% tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump further strained tense relations between the two countri...

Hungary's former nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who was ousted after 16 years in power in an election in April, ​has urged his supporters to restore democracy in the country which he said had ‌been crushed by the new government.

Relations have been strained ​over defence spending and the ‌war with Iran.

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.

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.

Germany will purchase Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States and station them on German soil, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday, in a shift from ​planned U.S. deployments to Germany's own long-range strike capability.

Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who is serving a long prison sentence in Russia, ​has been admitted to hospital, Kommersant newspaper ‌reported on Thursday.

Canada is aiming to announce around 10 founding nations for a global defence bank at next week's NATO summit in Turkey, ​the lead Canadian negotiator told Reuters on Thursday.

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.

Iraqi security forces arrested politicians, lawmakers and senior government officials early on Sunday in what security and legal sources described as the start ​of a broader anti-corruption campaign ordered by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a victory on Thursday by backing the federal government's authority to turn away asylum seekers when officials deem U.S.-Mexico border crossings too overburdened to handle additional claims.

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...

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.

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

White House officials have for months delayed the release of a U.S. government report that outlines what it describes as significant vulnerabilities in the ​nation's voting machines ahead of the November midterms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Russia said on Saturday it had recalled its ambassador to Armenia for consultations in protest at its rapprochement ​with the European Union as a June 7 ‌election nears.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The State Department's top aid official said on ‌Thursday that $1.8 billion in new humanitarian aid to be provided by the U.S. through the United Nations would be used in line with the Trump administration's foreign policy interests.

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

Centre-right leader Peter Magyar was sworn ‌in as Hungary's prime minister on Saturday, propelled into office on promises of change after years of economic stagnation and strained ties with key allies under his predecessor Viktor Orban.

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.

The court's order will not apply to all importers, only those that sued.

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.