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U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced progress toward a long-sought trade pact Wednesday following a high-profile summit in the historic city of Gyeongju, where Trump was awarded South Korea’s highest state honor.

American evangelist Franklin Graham has urged Christians to “pray for the people of Jamaica” after the Caribbean island nation was hit by “a monstrous storm—Hurricane Melissa” with fatalities already being reported.

The Netherlands announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to serve as the host country for preparing the “Russia Tribunal,” an international court aimed at holding Russian political and military leaders accountable for their roles in the war in Ukraine.

Dutch voters will go to the polls on Wednesday in snap parliamentary elections seen as crucial for the future direction of the Netherlands, which is facing a housing and social crisis amid a fierce debate about the ongoing influx of asylum seekers.

A journalist in northwest Mexico has become the latest victim in the deadly climate facing the country’s press. Miguel Ángel Beltrán — a crime reporter who covered drug trafficking, cartel influence, and local corruption on social media — was reportedly found murdered Saturday along a highway between the state of Durango and the resort city of Mazatlán in neighbouring Sinaloa. His death was confirmed on Monday by the Durango state prosecutor’s office.

Hurricane Melissa was rapidly threatening Jamaica with potentially deadly, never-before-seen catastrophic winds and up to three feet (91.5 centimeters) of rain, witnesses and officials said Monday.

Official results showed Monday that Ireland, a member of the European Union, has elected an outspoken independent lawmaker known for her criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza and her distrust of EU defense policies.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump warned Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, on Monday that the United States has “a nuclear submarine off your shore” as he condemned a Russian nuclear cruise missile test as “inappropriate.”d

President Donald J. Trump announced Thursday that he is immediately terminating trade negotiations with Canada after the Ontario provincial government launched an anti-tariff advertisement featuring what the Ronald Reagan Foundation has confirmed to be a manipulated audio clip of former President Ronald Reagan.

The Pentagon has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group–the world’s largest and most advanced warship–to Latin America in what officials describe as an expanded mission to counter drug trafficking but which analysts say marks a sharp escalation in tensions with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro regime.

The National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned Sunday that Hurricane Melissa could intensify into a Category 5 hurricane before making landfall on Jamaica late Monday or early Tuesday.

The European Union summit in Brussels ended early Friday without a political agreement on how to use Russia’s frozen assets to support Ukraine in its military battle against Moscow, while tensions rose after EU member state Lithuania accused Russian warplanes of violating its airspace — a claim Moscow firmly denied.

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday that Russia has successfully conducted a test of its nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile, the Burevestnik, in what he described as a milestone for the nation’s strategic arsenal.

European leaders of the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” want more countries to impose sanctions on Russian oil companies after U.S. President Donald J. Trump unveiled a new wave of measures targeting Moscow’s two biggest oil producers, Rosneft and Lukoil.

Tens of thousands of Hungarians braved pouring rain Wednesday in a massive show of force for Hungary’s emerging TISZA Party, led by opposition politician Péter Magyar, who accused Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of betraying the ideals of 1989 when he once demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Hungary.

A riverside resort in western Serbia, once marketed as “a unique oasis for rest and recreation,” is at the center of allegations that Russia used the site for training citizens to incite unrest before Moldova’s recent parliamentary elections.

Serbian authorities said at least one man was injured Wednesday after gunfire and a fire erupted at a camp of government supporters outside the national parliament, prompting President Aleksandar Vučić to call the incident a “terrorist act.”

The Trump administration has quietly lifted a major restriction on Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles supplied by Western allies, allowing Kyiv to expand its attacks on Russian territory, according to U.S. officials cited by The Wall Street Journal.

The European Union’s legislature has awarded its top human rights honor, the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, to two imprisoned journalists — Andrzej Poczobut of Belarus and Mzia Amaghlobeli of Georgia — for what it called their “courage in defending press freedom under authoritarian pressure.”

Faced with relentless Russian attacks that threaten to destroy his nation’s energy infrastructure, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has voiced support for U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s proposal for Kyiv and Moscow to freeze their war at the current frontlines. Zelenskyy called it “a good compromise” while admitting that Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear he would not accept the arrangement.