U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Tuesday that the Trump administration is advancing efforts to officially designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization — a move long championed by Republican lawmakers and many Middle East allies.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia will face “very severe consequences” if he does not agree to a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine during their upcoming summit in Alaska.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Germany’s capital, Berlin, on Wednesday to join a videoconference with European leaders and U.S. President Donald J. Trump amid concerns over Trump’s upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskyy and other leaders want to ensure that no deal will be agreed between Washington and Moscow over ending the war in Ukraine without Kyiv’s involvement.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic, facing protests over his perceived authoritarian style, says he does not intend to run in the next presidential election.
The United States and China clashed sharply Monday at a U.N. Security Council meeting over growing concerns about control and influence over the Panama Canal, a critical waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and is vital to global trade.
In a decisive move that signals mounting international pressure on Tehran, Britain, France, and Germany–collectively known as the E3–have informed the United Nations they are prepared to reinstate UN-mandated sanctions on Iran if no diplomatic resolution is reached regarding its nuclear program by the end of August.
President Donald Trump is set to speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders on Wednesday morning, just two days before a high-stakes, one-on-one summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. The diplomatic blitz comes amid renewed efforts to negotiate an end to the three-year Russia-Ukraine war.
President Donald Trump has extended a temporary suspension of tariffs on Chinese imports for another 90 days, averting — for now — a potential escalation in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
Russian troops have launched a sudden and rare penetration of Ukrainian defensive lines near the city of Dobropillia, pushing several miles into Donetsk province just days before President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump came under mounting pressure Monday to rethink his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid fears he will negotiate on ending the Russian war against Ukraine without consulting Kyiv.
A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck northwest Turkey on Sunday evening, killing at least one person, injuring 29 others, and causing more than a dozen buildings to collapse.
In pouring rain, people shed tears for those who died or were injured when, exactly 80 years ago, the U.S. dropped a devastating nuclear bomb on this Japanese city. The destruction of Nagasaki soon forced Japan to surrender, bringing World War II to a close.
European leaders have raised the pressure on U.S. President Donald J. Trump to involve Ukraine in a planned summit with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on ending the war in Ukraine, where officials said Russian shelling and drone attacks killed numerous people Sunday.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have signed a peace deal at the White House that will end decades of armed conflict that killed tens of thousands and led to the expulsion of more than 100,000 mainly Christian Armenians from the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. The leaders of both nations want to nominate U.S. President Donald J. Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize as he brokered the historic agreement.
Indonesia’s Catholic bishops have expressed concern about mounting anti-Christian violence in the world’s largest Muslim nation. They urged the central government in Jakarta to act decisively “against all forms of intolerance, particularly when accompanied by violence,” which, they stressed, “constitutes a criminal offense.”
Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a historic peace agreement at the White House on Friday, formally ending nearly four decades of territorial conflict and opening a new chapter in South Caucasus geopolitics. The accord, brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump, cements Washington’s strategic foothold in a volatile region bordering Iran and deep within the former Soviet sphere.
President Donald Trump has quietly authorized the use of U.S. military force against Latin American drug cartels that his administration has officially classified as foreign terrorist organizations, according to reports by The New York Times and New York Post. The move represents the most aggressive escalation yet in Trump’s long-running campaign to dismantle transnational narcotics networks flooding the United States with fentanyl and other illicit drugs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented the Trump administration with a sweeping cease-fire proposal in Ukraine that would require Kyiv to cede significant territory in exchange for a halt to hostilities, European and Ukrainian officials told the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump says he is prepared to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week, despite Moscow’s refusal to include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in peace discussions.
The Iranian judiciary announced Wednesday that it has executed Rouzbeh Vadi, a prominent nuclear scientist accused of spying for Israel and providing intelligence that led to the assassination of Iranian nuclear personnel during the 12-day war with Israel in June.