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Russia accused Ukraine on Monday of trying to attack President Vladimir Putin's residence in northern Russia, although it provided no evidence to back up an assertion that Kyiv dismissed as baseless and designed to undermine peace negotiations.

PALM BEACH, Fla – President Donald Trump is expected to push for progress in the stalled ceasefire in Gaza when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday for talks that will include Israel’s concerns over Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran.

LATAKIA, Syria – Three people were killed on Sunday when protests in Syria's Alawite heartland of Latakia spiralled into gunfire and other violence, according to the province's media office. 

PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “getting a lot closer, maybe very close” to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, though both leaders acknowledged that some of the thorniest details remain unresolved.

TAIPEI, Taiwan — A magnitude-7.0 earthquake jolted Taiwan late Saturday and was felt by residents across the whole island, according to the Central Weather Administration, or CWA. The quake hit at 11:05 pm (1505 GMT) at a depth of 72.8 kilometers (44 miles), with its epicenter located offshore northeastern Taiwan, the agency said. Residents received earthquake alerts on their mobile phones as ...

During his 21/2 years as director of the National Gallery of Canada, Jean-François Bélisle has stayed largely out of the news – which is perhaps a welcome relief.

BANGKOK – Thailand and Cambodia ended weeks of fierce border clashes on Saturday with a second ceasefire in recent months in the worst fighting in years between the Southeast Asian nations.

Russia attacked Kyiv and other regions of Ukraine with missiles and drones on Saturday, ahead of what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said would be a key meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to work out a deal to end nearly four years of war.

Uruguay’s central bank chief wants to convince savers in one of Latin America’s most dollarized nations that their love affair with the U.S. currency is bad for the economy and their pocketbooks.

Israel became the first country to formally recognize the self-declared Republic of Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state on Friday – a decision that could reshape regional dynamics and test Somalia’s longstanding opposition to secession.

Thailand claimed that Cambodia fired heavy weaponry into its territory on Friday as talks on a possible ceasefire between the two countries continued. The Cambodian action early Friday “forced the Thai side to take necessary self-defense measures,” according to a statement published at a daily press briefing. One Thai soldier was also “severely injured” on Thursday after stepping on what ...

Japan’s industry ministry is set to nearly quadruple its budgeted support for cutting-edge semiconductors and artificial intelligence development to about ¥1.23 trillion ($7.9 billion) for the fiscal year starting in April.

LAGOS – By publicly cooperating with the United States on a Christmas Day airstrike, Nigeria's government may have averted humiliating unilateral military action threatened a month ago by President Donald Trump. 

KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will discuss territorial issues, the main stumbling block in talks to end the war, with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as a 20-point peace framework and a security guarantee deal near completion. 

Suspected Boko Haram insurgents detonated an explosive device at a mosque in Maiduguri, the capital of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, killing at least five people, police said. About 35 people were wounded in the blast at the Juma’at mosque, which occurred during prayers late on Wednesday, state police spokesman, Nahum Daso told Lagos-based broadcaster Channels TV. Nigeria has been ...

Ukraine said its drones struck the largest Russian gas processing plant in the Orenburg region, which also processes gas from Kazakhstan’s Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field. Long-range UAVs successfully hit the Orenburg gas processing plant, about 1,050 miles (1,700 km) east of Kyiv, said a person familiar with the matter who declined to be identified as the information isn’t public. ...

Pope Leo XIV called for compassion and global peace in his first Christmas Mass in Rome on Wednesday.

At 5:55 p.m. on a Friday evening in Gloucester, England, David Purchase was still singing - 41 hours and 55 minutes after he had begun.