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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.

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.

France's top court on Friday blocked ​a bill banning social media access for under-15s, saying it infringed upon freedom of ‌expression and delivering a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, who asked his government to rewrite the legislation.

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.

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".

A homemade bomb carried by a woman killed three people and injured at least 21 in an explosion near an upscale restaurant in central Moscow ​on Saturday evening, the authorities said.

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.

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.

French police detained a man on Monday after he attacked three women with knives near Porte de ​Clichy in Paris, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told reporters.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will propose ​that conservative parliamentary ‌director Steffen Bilger replace Patrick Schnieder as transport ​minister as ​part of an ongoing cabinet ⁠reshuffle, a government ​spokesperson said in ​a statement on Sunday.

South African President Cyril ​Ramaphosa on Friday won a court challenge that halted ‌a parliamentary impeachment process over misconduct allegations linked to the "Farmgate" scandal.

German Chancellor Friedrich ​Merz said on ‌Sunday he may now potentially ​have an ​opportunity for changes to ⁠his cabinet, ​a statement coming after ​the resignation of a top politician ​over the ​weekend.

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

A senior member of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling conservatives faced pressure to resign on Friday after having a baby born through ​a surrogate mother in the United States, contrary to his own ‌party's opposition to surrogacy.

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

The New York Times has filed a court motion ​to block federal grand jury subpoenas to three ‌of its journalists over their reporting on President Donald Trump's new Qatari-donated Air Force One, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday directed federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes after the Supreme Court rejected President Donald Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States.

Greek ​rescuers were searching for ‌people trapped after a four-storey apartment block collapsed on ​Tuesday in the ​Petralona area of Athens, the ⁠fire brigade said.

A 45-year-old man in an apparent child custody dispute was the suspected shooter at a shelter for mothers and children in northern Germany that left six dead on Monday, officials said.

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...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday "I will do ‌what I have to do" if Iran does not stick to its agreement with Washington.

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.

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.

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.

Hungary's main opposition Fidesz party re-elected former Prime Minister Viktor Orban as its leader on Saturday for ​another year despite the party's loss of power in an ‌April 12 election to the centre-right Tisza party.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The U.S. military ​said on Tuesday ‌that it had carried ​out a ​strike in the ⁠Eastern Pacific ​that killed ​one man and left two survivors.

A train crashed into a school minivan at a level-crossing in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday, killing four people including two special needs pupils, authorities said.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's ​right-wing coalition won the Venice mayoral election, projections showed on Monday, ‌retaining control of the most prominent city at stake in a round of local votes held across Italy.

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. Health Secretary Robert F. ‌Kennedy Jr. fired the chair and vice chair of the influential task force that decides what preventive medical care should be provided at no cost to patients, according to letters sent earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

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.

A man drove a car into a ​crowd in the northern Italian city of Modena, injuring at ‌least eight people, four of whom are in serious condition, police said.

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.

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.

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.

Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leading figure in the hard-left France Unbowed (La ​France Insoumise) political party, will stand in next year's ‌presidential election, he said on Sunday.