Russia said Tuesday that it shot down several Ukraine-launched drones targeting Moscow, the country’s capital. The announcement came amid reports that Russia seeks to intensify its war against Ukraine by contacting North Korea for support.

Iran has slowed the pace at which it is enriching uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels, according to a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press on Monday. That could be a sign Tehran is trying to ease tensions after years of strain between it and the U.S.

Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin and discuss the possibility of supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine, as Russia says it is seeking closer military ties with North Korea.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is replacing his minister of defense in the biggest shake-up in the leadership since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Representatives of Israel and Hungary have launched programs to remember the 150th birth anniversary of the city of Budapest and further encourage a Jewish revival here. They also joined the European Days of Jewish Culture underway in Hungary’s capital and alluded to the birth of Israel 75 years ago.

Russia on Friday prepared to attack targets with its feared nuclear-capable Sarmat missiles, nicknamed Satan 2, with authorities saying they had been put on “combat duty.”

Iran claimed Thursday that it had foiled a major plan by Israel’s Mossad spy agency to sabotage its missile production and its defense industry as a whole.

The United Nations Security Council voted on Thursday to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, hours before it was due to expire.

Domestic flights were cancelled and almost 4,000 people were evacuated as Typhoon Haikui barrelled into southeastern Taiwan on Sunday bringing torrential rain and strong winds.

Russia has deployed the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles that President Vladimir Putin once said would make the world “think twice” for combat, its Roscosmos space agency said Friday.

The U.S. Embassy in Haiti advised all U.S. citizens in the island nation to leave the country “as soon as possible” due to the region’s deteriorating security situation.

More than 70 people have died and scores were injured after a fire in an apartment block in South Africa’s city of Johannesburg, mainly used by migrants, officials confirmed Thursday.

Canada on Tuesday updated its travel advisory for Canadians visiting the United States by adding a section advising LGBTQ travelers that some American states have implemented laws that may present them with “barriers” and “risks,” the Canada Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reports.

Hungary’s president said Tuesday that Ukraine’s leader is ready to restore language and administrative rights to ethnic Hungarians, many of whom fight and die in the Ukrainian army.

The Pentagon said on Tuesday that additional troops and assets deployed to the Middle East earlier this month in response to an Iranian threat to commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz will remain in the region.

A massive wildfire was burning unabated in northeastern Greece for the 11th day Tuesday despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and a fleet of water-dropping aircraft from Greece and several of its European Union partners.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues a genocidal program against the Uyghur Muslim minority community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), the Genocide Watch human rights organization reported earlier this month. Xinjiang is home to 12 million people, most of whom are Uyghur Muslims.

Ukraine’s trumpeted counter-offensive against invading Russian troops is suffering significant setbacks, with U.S. officials saying some 70,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died and as many as 120,000 were injured.

A U.S. former Marine held in Russia on espionage charges that Washington says are bogus has been seen in video footage for the first time in three years.

A powerful earthquake and two strong aftershocks rocked Indonesia’s resort island of Bali and other parts of the country early Tuesday, causing panic but no immediate reports of damage or casualties.