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Nicaragua’s authoritarian socialist government has “expropriated” the Catholic San José School in the city of Jinotepe amid a broader crackdown on Christians expressing their faith in the Central American nation, church sources said Thursday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday thanked U.S. President Donald J. Trump for the “trustworthy tone of our conversation” on ending the war in Ukraine and invited Trump to Moscow.

A tense political and security standoff continued Friday in Serbia as riots erupted in Novi Sad, where supporters of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) clashed with anti-government protesters, hurling flares and firecrackers and prompting police intervention.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump shook hands with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, at the U.S. Joint Base Elmendorf in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a path to peace for Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II, raging in Ukraine. Their summit comes after another night of Russian air strikes in Ukraine and Kyiv responding with drone attacks in Russia.

Ukraine says Russia launched two ballistic missiles and nearly 100 drones overnight in more than a dozen locations across the country, as Moscow claimed it intercepted scores of Ukrainian drones over land and sea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has discussed potential security guarantees for his war-torn nation with Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer during talks in London, ahead of Friday’s highly anticipated U.S.-Russia summit on ending the war in Ukraine.

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.