Both the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force have repeatedly publicly pledged to respect cease-fires or humanitarian law only to break those promises within minutes.

Moscow claimed to destroy one of two sophisticated Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine but Kyiv disputed the account. A U.S. official said one system was damaged but operational.

As Biden left Washington for Asia, he said he was "confident" the U.S. would raise the debt ceiling and avert default.

On the same stage where her husband, the prominent Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, was honored for his courage years earlier, Evgenia Kara-Murza took the floor. She was addressing the 15th

French President Emmanuel Macron said Jean-Baptiste Trogneux, 30, was beaten up by anti-government protesters "because he is our great-nephew."

Trump's one-time national security adviser said the former president did not command respect from some world leaders.

More than 4.5 million people have died as a result of wars since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a new study from the Costs of War project at Brown University's Watson Institute.

Most of the drug trade in Italy, and much of Europe, is dominated by the 'Ndrangheta crime group, a highly sophisticated global network dealing in international narcotics that operates in 40