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Relations between Washington and Kyiv rapidly deteriorated Wednesday, with U.S. President Donald J. Trump calling his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zekenskyy a “dictator” who may soon have no country.

The U.S. Air Force launched an unarmed Minuteman III hypersonic intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, demonstrating that the nation’s nuclear deterrent is safe, secure, reliable, and effective. This launch occurred shortly after Russia conducted combat training with its ‘Yars’ mobile ICBM.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump demands that war-torn Ukraine hold elections soon as part of a peace deal with Russia amid questions over the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Frits Bolkestein, one of the most influential Dutch conservative-liberal politicians who was among the first to publicly challenge immigration policies in the Netherlands, has died at the age of 91.

President Trump praised US Central Command forces for carrying out a successful airstrike over the weekend in Syria that targeted a senior “terrorist leader.”

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.

Britain’s prime minister urged the United States on Monday to support a European peacekeeping force in Ukraine and suggested Washington cannot wash America’s hands of Ukraine without damaging European security.

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.”

Ukraine’s president calls for the creation of an “army of Europe” amid fears the United States and Russia will decide on his nation’s future at a meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders in Saudi Arabia.

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.