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Russian strikes kill 7 in Ukraine after US envoy meets Putin

Russia and Ukraine traded attacks overnight, with seven killed on the Ukrainian side, authorities said on Thursday, shortly after US President Donald Trump's envoy held talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg.

In Israel, Eisenkot tries quiet appeal to oust Netanyahu

Gadi Eisenkot, the man who could unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, almost always dresses in plain black, speaks halting English and, reflecting the military culture that shapes him, responds in interviews in bullet-point lists.

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Colombia peace talks with ELN rebels resume in Mexico

Colombia's government on Monday resumed peace talks with National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, seeking to lay the foundations for a bilateral ceasefire despite recent tensions.

Two wounded in Jerusalem after Gaza and West Bank violence

An Israeli policeman and a Jewish teenager were wounded Monday in two separate stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinian boys in annexed east Jerusalem, police said, amid a spike in violence.

Russian frigate docks in S.Africa ahead of military drills

A Russian military frigate docked in Cape Town harbour on Monday ahead of controversial military drills with South Africa and China, coming as Moscow is about to mark one year since its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

European, US stocks climb on hopes of inflation slowdown

European and US stock markets rose Monday as investors set aside Asian losses and focused on expectations of slowing inflation in Britain and the United States, dealers said.

Search for survivors slows as Turkey-Syria quake toll passes 35,000

Rescue teams began to wind down the search for survivors on Monday, a week after an earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria leaving more than 35,000 dead and millions in dire need of aid.

Flying object mystery deepens in US as China accuses Washington

Questions about three unidentified flying objects downed by US Air Force jets over North America in three days intensified Monday, while Beijing and Washington traded accusations over using high-tech balloons to spy on each other.

Ukraine says fighting 'difficult' near Bakhmut as Russia claims gains

Kyiv said Monday that fighting around the frontline hotspot of Bakhmut was "difficult" as Russia claimed new gains in the longest-running battle of Moscow's nearly year-old invasion.

Israelis hold mass protest outside parliament against judicial reforms

Tens of thousands of Israelis protested outside parliament on Monday against the government's controversial judicial reform plan, which aims to give lawmakers substantially more control over the supreme court.

Russia says gas exports sank in 2022 but oil up

Russia said Monday its gas exports plummeted by 25 percent in 2022 after the Ukraine conflict brought turmoil to Moscow's ties with key buyers in Europe.

Russia's Wagner militia 'formidable adversary': top French general

The controversial Russia mercenary outfit Wagner, which is active in the invasion of Ukraine but also in Africa, is a "formidable adversary" because of the price it is prepared to pay to achieve its goals, a French general said on Monday.

Israel strikes Gaza, one killed in West Bank arrest raid

Israel struck a Hamas base in Gaza on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the enclave, while one Palestinian died during what the army called a West Bank raid targeting suspects.

Protesters, rights groups condemn closure of Cambodian news outlet

A handful of protesters gathered in Phnom Penh on Monday to condemn the shutdown of one of Cambodia's last independent media outlets, with rights groups also slamming the portal's closure just months before national elections.

On the road with Ukraine's 'medical battalion'

At a hospital a short drive from the scene of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops in eastern Ukraine, two orderlies carefully carry an injured soldier onto a medical bus.

Markets take fresh hit on rate hike worries

Asian equities fell again Monday on growing expectations that US interest rates will go much higher and for longer than previously thought.

Israeli air strike hits Hamas complex in Gaza: military

Israel hit Gaza with air strikes on Monday in response to a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave at the weekend, the army said, as unrest persisted in the occupied West Bank.

'It's like Verdun': The grinding battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut

An ambulance screams toward a triage hub for wounded Ukrainian soldiers outside Bakhmut, the stage for the longest battle of Russia's invasion, where there is no end in sight to a brutal stalemate.

Speculation grows as US shoots down new mystery object

A US warplane shot down a new flying object near the Canadian border on Sunday, the latest of three mysterious devices spotted since military radar settings were cranked up in the wake of the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon.

US shoots down another object, this time over Lake Huron

US warplanes shot down another flying object on Sunday, this time over Lake Huron on the US-Canadian border, the fourth in a dramatic series that began with the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago.

UN admits aid failure for Syria as quake toll tops 33,000

The United Nations decried Sunday the failure to ship desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher.

US airspace closures come amid jitters over mystery objects

The US and Canada were working Sunday to recover the remnants of three mysterious objects shot down over their territory, amid growing jitters that resulted in several brief air-space closures in recent days.

Syria's Assad may consider more border crossings for quake aid: WHO

The WHO chief said Sunday that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad had voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in the country's rebel-held northwest.

Scholz's Social Democrats suffer blow with Berlin election loss

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats suffered a heavy setback in a regional poll in Berlin on Sunday, falling behind the opposition conservatives in the capital for the first time in over two decades.

Former Cyprus top diplomat Christodoulides elected youngest president

Former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was on Sunday elected president of the Republic of Cyprus, becoming at 49 the youngest leader of the divided Mediterranean island nation.

Cyprus ex-foreign minister Christodoulides elected president

Cyprus voters on Sunday elected the former foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides as the next president of the small EU member state, with his rival conceding defeat and congratulating him.

What we know about mysterious objects downed by US

The downing of a huge Chinese balloon off the US coast, followed by the shootdowns of two smaller objects over Alaska and Canada, has raised concerns about North American security -- and further strained relations with China.

France hits out at 'Black Panther' over depiction of its army

Paris' defence minister on Sunday condemned the latest instalment of Marvel's Black Panther franchise, which depicts French troops caught trying to steal resources belonging to the fictional African kingdom of Wakanda.

NATO chief's departure plan relaunches succession race

The NATO alliance confirmed Sunday that its long-serving chief would leave office in October, launching a new round of speculation about his successor.

Thousands march in Nicaragua in support of govt opponents' expulsion

Several thousand pro-government demonstrators marched Saturday in Nicaragua in support of the expulsion of 222 critics of President Daniel Ortega's government, which has called them "traitors to the homeland."

Regional voting starts in Italy in test for PM Meloni

Polling stations opened on Sunday for regional elections in Italy's two most populous regions -- polls seen as a test of the popularity of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's three-month-old government.

Olympic chief Bach shares 'grief, human suffering' of Ukrainian athletes

Olympic chief Thomas Bach said Saturday that he shared the "grief and human suffering" of Ukrainian athletes, stressing that if it was not up to individual governments to decide who takes part in international sporting competition.

Seizing Russian assets is easier said than done

The idea is seductively simple: the West should turn over billions of dollars of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to fund reconstruction. But it faces major legal problems which mean little progress has been made.

Scholz's Social Democrats risk upset at Berlin vote rerun

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats face the prospect of an embarrassing loss on Sunday during the rerun of a chaotic 2021 regional election in Berlin.

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