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Delegations from Russia and Ukraine have sat down for their first direct talks in three years, but hopes for a breakthrough at the meeting in Turkiye remain dim. Officials from Russia, Ukraine, and the United States arrived in Istanbul on Friday morning for the talks, the first since shortly after...

The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize, and potentially ban organizations it deems a threat to national sovereignty, marking a significant escalation of the government’s long-running...

Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defense minister would head up Kyiv's team. They will be the first direct talks between the sides...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will travel to Turkey's capital Ankara to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and will be available for direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Istanbul. "We will do everything to ensure that this meeting takes place," he told...

Crates containing documents from Nazi Germany have been rediscovered in the basement of Argentina's Supreme Court. The unusual find was made as workers were clearing the building's basement ahead of its archives being moved to a newly created museum. The documents were sent by the German embassy in...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is set to host the leaders of China, Brazil, and other heads of states for festivities on Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Victory Day, which is celebrated in Russia on May 9, has become the country’s most important...

The top United Nations court dismissed a case brought by Sudan accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the deadly Sudanese civil war. Judges found that the International Court of Justice...

Thousands of people in Serbia marked six months since a train station tragedy in the country’s north killed 16 people and triggered a wave of anti-corruption protests that have shaken populist President Aleksandar Vucic’s tight grip on power. Workers’ unions joined university students in Belgrade...

A Ukrainian drone attack left at least seven people dead and a Russian strike on Odesa killed two people on May 1, officials said, just hours after Kyiv and Washington signed a long-anticipated agreement granting U.S. access to Ukraine’s mineral resources. The attack in the partially occupied...

Russia struck civilian areas of Ukraine with drones in another deadly nighttime attack, as Kyiv officials dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s declaration of a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire next week as an attempt “to deceive the United States.” The Russian attack damaged homes in Ukraine’s...