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Top American and Russian officials who met in Saudi Arabia have agreed on planning to end the war in Ukraine and to work on normalizing diplomatic and economic relations.

Austria was in shock Monday after more details emerged about a Syrian asylum seeker suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach that killed a child and injured five others.

Some 18 people were injured when a Delta Air Lines passenger plane crashed while landing in Toronto, flipping upside down in hazardous conditions in Canada’s most populous city, officials said Monday.

Lebanon has indefinitely extended its flight suspension to and from Iran after initially imposing a ban on February 18, following revelations that Iran was smuggling cash to its terrorist proxy, Hezbollah, through civilian flights.

European leaders gathered for an emergency summit in Paris on Monday after Kyiv warned of an imminent Russian invasion of NATO military alliance member states, although U.S. President Donald J. Trump reportedly seeks a ceasefire in war-torn Ukraine by Easter.

An emotional outgoing chairman of Germany’s Munich Security Conference (MSC) suggested Sunday that the transatlantic relationship is under threat amid mounting U.S.-Europe tensions.

Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) plunged into mourning Sunday as news emerged that two people were killed in a car-ramming attack on a labor union protest in nearby Munich, which also injured nearly 40 people.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday he was “distressed by the stampede” at a train station in India’s capital of New Delhi that killed at least 18 people, including 14 women.

Hungary’s powerful prime minister has warned that the European Union will collapse by 2029 unless it reinvents itself and said he expects a “permanent” peace solution for wartorn Ukraine within six months “or even earlier.”

This week, it was “Alice in Orbánland” as the leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party, Alice Weidel, visited Hungary, led by Viktor Orbán, the prime minister who critics say turned his nation into a thiefdom.

Investigators say an Afghan migrant who pushed his car into a workers protest in the German city of Munich, injuring nearly 40 people, was a bodybuilding “Islamic extremist” shouting “Allahu Akbar” or “Allah is the Greatest.”

Pope Francis has condemned U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s attempt to deport illegal migrants, saying the “family of Nazareth in exile, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, emigrants in Egypt and refugees there” are “the example” why the policy fails.

The USS Harry Truman collided with a merchant ship in the Mediterranean Sea near Port Said, Egypt, on Wednesday evening.

European powers, including Britain, France, and Germany, say they must participate in any future negotiations on war-torn Ukraine’s fate amid growing tensions about the U.S. role in those talks.

United States Vice President JD Vance has told the European Union that its “massive” regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) could strangle the technology and rejected content moderation as “authoritarian censorship.”

Pakistani Christians say they are not surprised that social media platform Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he was “almost sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan.”

A Russian national imprisoned in a U.S. jail on money laundering charges has been freed in exchange for the release of American schoolteacher Marc Fogel from prison in Russia.