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Andriy Yermak had ensured internal discipline in Ukraine’s wartime politics. He also led the country’s peace negotiations, which now must go on without him.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to discuss peace terms again after an uproar over a 28-point proposal drafted with Russian input.

The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

The Israeli military said it had fired on two “suspects” on Saturday who had crossed cease-fire lines in southern Gaza and did not comment on reports that they were young children.

Rescue efforts across the nation of 23 million have been hampered by disruptions in transport and telecommunications.

The pope started his six-day trip, which will also include a visit to Lebanon.

The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The police said they expected the death toll of 128 to rise as the authorities began combing through the charred apartment towers.

Leo XIV is being closely watched on an inaugural trip to Turkey and Lebanon to spread a message of peace and outreach.

On his last day in Turkey, Leo XIV visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque where, unlike his two most recent predecessors, he did not visibly pray. The pope heads to Lebanon on Sunday.

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Canada has made its border with the United States tougher to cross. Here’s what we learned through monthlong reporting on a single case.

The upcoming election in Honduras shows how politicians must balance cooperation with the Trump administration with their obligation to undocumented citizens in the United States who may be deported.

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.

Even if a peace can be reached, it won’t be easy to solve the problem of Ukrainian civilians languishing in Russian jails. This is one prisoner’s story.

Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.

In his own words, William Li, a resident of the Hong Kong apartment complex that became an inferno, recounted how he and two neighbors survived until help arrived.

The Trump administration has been trying to repair the damage from the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid in Georgia.

Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers. He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Malaysia launched a “year of enforcement” in response to a surge in undocumented migrants, many of them from Myanmar. Some faced nightmarish fates.