Satellite images show damage to Russian naval vessels struck in Ukraine attack

A Ukrainian missile attack on the Sevastopol Shipyard in Russian-annexed Crimea this week damaged a Russian landing ship and submarine, commercial satellite imagery showed. Tap for the full brief.

Official says Libya flood toll could reach 20,000 as rescue efforts continue

Survivors of a flood that swept away the center of the Libyan city of Derna picked through the ruins on Thursday in search of loved ones from among thousands of dead and missing, while authorities ...

US judge freezes New Mexico governor's gun ban

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a ban on carrying guns in New Mexico's largest city after the order by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham threw the state into the center of the U.S. g...

Houthi envoys heading to Riyadh for ceasefire talks with Saudis, sources says

Houthi and Omani envoys are planning to head to Saudi Arabia on Thursday night to try to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with Saudi officials to end the war in Yemen, two people involved in the tal...

Australia toughens ban on training “certain foreign militaries” after pilot case

Australia will toughen laws stopping former defense personnel from training "certain foreign militaries", introducing a penalty of 20 years prison and widening the ban to stop any Australians offer...

US, Bahrain sign strategic security and economic agreement

The United States and Bahrain on Wednesday signed a strategic security and economic agreement which U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said would expand defense and intelligence collaboration b...

China becomes first to name new Afghan ambassador under Taliban

China became the first country on Wednesday to formally name a new ambassador to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, after its envoy presented credentials at a ceremony in Kabul. Tap for the fu...

US House's McCarthy opens impeachment probe of Biden

GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden — propelling Congress toward an effort to remove the Democratic president — after two impeachments of form...

Pennsylvania fugitive captured after two-week manhunt

A convicted murderer who escaped from a Pennsylvania jail was recaptured on Wednesday after eluding an expanding manhunt for two weeks and unnerving residents in the suburbs west of Philadelphia, s...

Five ex-Memphis policemen charged with civil rights violations in Tyre Nichols death

Five former Memphis policemen were charged in federal court on Tuesday with violating the civil rights of Black motorist Tyre Nichols by beating him to death after a traffic stop and covering it up...

Putin meets Kim, says Russia will help NKorea build satellites

President Vladimir Putin promised help to North Korea build satellites and showed Kim Jong Un around Russia's most modern space launch facility on Wednesday before talks that were expected to inclu...

Niger junta ends military pact with Benin amid regional standoff

The junta in Niger on Tuesday said it would end a military pact with neighboring Benin, accusing it of authorizing the deployment of troops on its territory for a possible military intervention aga...

Romania says possible new drone fragments found on its territory

Elements of a possible drone were identified on NATO-member Romania's territory, the defense ministry said Wednesday — after Russian drone attacks across the border on southern Ukraine’s Izmail. Ta...

Ukraine hits Russian naval targets in largest attack on Black Sea Fleet HQ yet

Ukraine said it struck Russian naval targets and port infrastructure Wednesday in the Crimean city of Sevastopol — in what appeared to be the biggest attack of the war on the home of the Russian na...

Ukraine may get ATACMS or other missiles armed with cluster warheads, US officials say

The Biden administration is close to approving the shipment of longer-range missiles packed with cluster bombs to Ukraine — giving Kyiv the ability strike deeper and with greater damage within Russ...