Pro-Kremlin activists say they're barred from entering Germany

Two pro-Russian activists said that German authorities have barred them from re-entering the country where they had been operating when a Reuters investigation last year revealed their ties to the ...

FBI returns Monet pastel to owners' heirs 84 years after Nazi theft

In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...

Norway raises terrorism alert level amid Middle East conflict

Norway has raised its terrorism threat assessment to the second-highest level due to an increased risk of attacks against Jewish and Israeli targets, the national police directorate said on Tuesday...

Hurricane Milton exits Florida without setting off feared flooding

urricane Milton marched across Florida on Thursday, whipping up tornadoes, destroying homes and knocking out power to millions before blowing out into the Atlantic. Tap for the full brief.

Israeli forces fire at UN peacekeeper positions in south Lebanon, peacekeepers say

Israeli forces fired on a position used by U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon on Wednesday and two more on Thursday, the U.N. force said — as Israel warned Lebanese civilians not to return to homes in th...

Biden postpones trip to Germany, Angola to focus on hurricane response, White House says

U.S. President Joe Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola to handle preparations for Hurricane Milton and relief efforts after Hurricane Helene, the White House said on Tuesday...

Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli troops along length of Lebanese border

Hezbollah said on Wednesday its fighters had pushed back advancing Israeli troops in clashes along the length of the border, a day after Israel said it had killed two successors to the Iran-backed ...

Netanyahu says Israel killed Nasrallah's first and second replacement

Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them. Tap for the full...

Haiti gangs are recruiting more child soldiers, human rights report says

Haiti's armed gangs are increasingly recruiting children into their ranks, a report by Human Rights Watch warned on Wednesday, as near-famine conditions push boys to pick up guns while girls are se...

Russia's Wagner says it has recovered bodies of mercenaries killed in Mali

Russia's Wagner mercenary group said that its fighters had recovered the bodies of its mercenaries killed in a July battle with Tuareg rebels and Islamists during a desert sandstorm in Mali. Tap fo...

Sudan's warring sides target local aid volunteers fighting famine

Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan's most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the wo...

Russia, Burkina Faso talk military cooperation

Russia's Defense Minister Andrei Belousov and prime minister of Burkina Faso, Apollinaire J. Kyelem de Tambela, discussed in Moscow expanding military ties, the Russian defense ministry said Tuesda...

Russia hands Marine veteran Trevor Reed 14 year sentence in absentia

A Russian court on Wednesday found Trevor Reed, a former U.S. Marine who was freed by Russia in a 2022 prisoner swap, guilty in absentia of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine and handed him a priso...

Vietnam upgrades ties with France to highest level

Vietnam and France have officially upgraded their relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership", Vietnam's highest level, during a visit by Vietnamese President To Lam to Paris. Tap for the ...

Ukraine eyes peace summit by year-end that includes Russia, envoy to Turkey says

Ukraine aims to organize a new peace summit by the end of this year and wants Russia to attend this time, its ambassador to Turkey said on Wednesday, but ruled out any direct bilateral talks with M...