Donald Trump “will not give a penny” to Ukraine if he is re-elected US president, the far-right Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said. The EU is pushing to give Ukraine €2bn-€3bn this year from profits derived from Russia’s frozen assets.
Read MoreFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended his Republican presidential campaign on Sunday, ending his 2024 White House bid just before the New Hampshire primary while endorsing his bitter rival Donald Trump
Read MoreThe so-called biting sanctions introduced against Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine appear to be having limited bit in the elite circles of Moscow and St Petersburg. Belorussian President grants himself lifetime immunity from prosecution
Read MoreIsrael and Hamas start a four-day truce on Friday morning with the militants to release a first group of 13 Israeli women and child hostages later in the day, the first break in a war that has devastated the besieged Gaza Strip
Read MoreIsraeli troops entered Gaza's biggest hospital on Wednesday and were searching its rooms and basement. An internal and scathing 5-page memo signed by 100 of its own and USAID employees, accuses President Biden of "spreading misinformation" on the Israel-Hamas war and alleges that Israel is committing "war crimes" in Gaza. Presidents Xi and Biden meet in SF today ahead of the APEC leaders summit.
Read MoreAbout a thousand Palestinians have died in Gaza since Friday, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, bringing the overall death toll there to more than 8,000. After two nights and a day of internet and phone service outages, Palestinian communications came back on Sunday.
Read MoreDeath toll rises in Gaza as more Israeli refugees are released. The main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees in Gaza could run out of fuel as early as Wednesday. Russia continues to target civilian targets in Ukraine.
Read MoreTensions high as Gazans await the opening of the crucial Rafah border crossing with Egypt. An important Ukrainian advance to the left side of the Dnipro River
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday to hear about its plans for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing where he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping
Read MoreIsrael's PM Benjamin Netanyahu has denied reports of a ceasefire to allow "foreigners out" of south Gaza and "humanitarian aid in.” UN officials say the Gaza Strip is being “strangled” by Israel’s siege. The governing Law and Justice Party wins in exit polls in Poland but could lose power if it’s unable to find a coalition partner in parliament
Read MoreThe UN says it has been told by Israel that everyone in north Gaza must relocate to the south of the Strip in the next 24 hours. It means the entire population of Gaza City and its surroundings - about 1.1 million people - having to flee their homes, the UN says
Read MoreA huge fire overnight in Johannesburg claims dozens of lives, mostly migrants. A mini cabinet shuffle in the UK and a new top boss at CNN.
Read MoreWagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead after genetic analysis of bodies found in plane crash, Russian officials say. The Zimbabwean leader knows as ‘the crocodile’ is re-elected
Read MoreUkrainian military officials on August 9 cited more than 30 frontline clashes amid counteroffensive operations in the past 24 hours, while Russia blamed Kyiv for what it said was a twin drone attack targeting Moscow that it "thwarted" with no casualties or damage to the capital.
Read MoreAt least 7 people died and 81 were injured in a double Russian missile strike on the city of Pokrovsk in E. Ukraine. A woman is detained for allegedly planning an assassination of the Ukrainian president
Read MoreUkraine appears to have crippled a Russian war ship off Crimea with an unmanned attack drone. Peace talks commence in Saudi Arabia this weekend but without the participation of Russia
Read MoreA Russian missile struck the western Ukrainian city of Lviv overnight, killing four, injuring at least 34 and causing massive property damage. The Belarusian leader says Wagner Group chief Yevgeni Prigozhin is in Russia
Read MoreExtremely fierce battles" are raging in parts of Ukraine as Kyiv's forces continue their counter-offensive, the country's deputy defence minister says
Read MoreUkrainian fighters repulsed a fresh series of Russian assaults in Bakhmut and the surroundings of the city in the eastern region of Donetsk, Kyiv's military said early on March 17, while Russian shelling of settlements caused deaths among Ukrainian civilians.
Read MoreRussian troops launched several waves of attacks on Ukrainian positions in and around Bakhmut over the past day, Ukraine's military said on March 16, as the monthslong battle for the city in the eastern region of Donetsk continued at high intensity.
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