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LONDON – With the right-wing populist Reform UK party headed by Nigel Farage posting significant gains in local elections, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took responsibility Friday for large Labour Party losses, saying that he would “not sugarcoat” voters’ scathing verdict on his 22 months in office.

HONG KONG – As the war in Iran drags on, China has deepened its influence with fuel-starved neighbors, offering to ease shortages while pushing its renewable energy technology.

MOSCOW – Russia held its most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years on Saturday due to the threat of attack from Ukraine, where victory for Moscow’s forces has proven elusive more than four years into the deadliest European conflict since World War II.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine over the weekend, after Moscow pushed Kyiv for a temporary truce to allow Vladimir Putin to host a parade in his capital. The ceasefire, which Trump said would last May 9-11, coincides with Russia’s Victory Day celebrations, the U.S. president said in a social media post on Friday. Putin’s push for a ...

The Trump administration, sidestepping a widening battle in and around the Strait of Hormuz, said it was anticipating a reply from Tehran on Friday on its latest terms for ending the war.

Four South Florida men were found guilty on Friday of conspiring to kidnap or kill Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated in his home outside Port-au-Prince on July 7, 2021, plunging the Caribbean country deeper into political turmoil and gang-fueled chaos.

The State Department will begin revoking ​the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe ⁠a significant amount of ‌unpaid child support, ​the Associated Press reported on Thursday.

Countries worldwide sought to prevent further spread of the hantavirus on Thursday, after an outbreak on a cruise ship, by tracking those who had disembarked before the virus was detected and anyone in close contact with them since.

Cuba's top officials blasted a growing litany of U.S. statements and threats of military action against the Caribbean island, calling them dangerous and an international crime alongside an ongoing ​U.S. oil blockade that has vastly restricted fuel shipments amid a devastating energy crisis.

China’s top diplomat called for the swift reopening of the Strait of Hormuz in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, signaling Beijing’s urgency to resolve a global energy crisis just days before President Xi Jinping is set to meet with Donald Trump.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the U.S. mission to protect commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz would be temporary and other nations would soon have to take responsibility, emphasizing that the fragile ceasefire with Iran remained in place despite attacks on U.S. ships a day earlier.

KYIV – Russian attacks throughout eastern Ukraine killed at least 27 people on Tuesday, including 12 in one of the worst strikes so far this year, hours before a midnight deadline ushering in an open-ended ceasefire proposed by Kyiv.

Ukrainian drones are regularly hitting targets deep inside Russia, reaching to the Ural Mountains and communities where most people had seen the war as a distant problem.

MOSCOW — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine will implement a ceasefire from midnight on Wednesday, shortly after Russia ordered a truce to coincide with Victory Day commemorations marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. “We believe that human life is far more valuable than any anniversary ‘celebration’,” Zelenskyy said in a post announcing the ceasefire on X. “In this ...

Lee Chun Ho's voice cracked as he sat in the witness chair recounting the day that Hong Kong's worst fire in decades tore through his apartment complex, killing his mother, his elder brother, his 15-month-old niece and the family's live-in maid.

The U.S. military said on Monday it destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted Iranian cruise missiles and drones fired by Tehran as it sought to thwart a new U.S. naval effort to open shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.