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Top Russian, US officials meet for talks on Ukraine war without Kyiv

The talks mark a significant expansion of US-Russian contacts nearly three years into a war that has seen ties fall to the lowest level in decades

Schools around US confront anxiety over Trump's actions on immigration

Trump's executive actions vastly expanded who is eligible for deportation and lifted a ban on immigration enforcement in schools

N Korea slams US, rivals for pursuing 'absurd' plans to denuclearise North

The statement by Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry came after the top diplomats of the US, South Korea and Japan met at a security conference in Germany and reaffirmed their commitment

Guv mulls removing NYC Mayor after his 4 deputies quit amid ongoing turmoil

NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has been under increasing scrutiny since the Justice Department's second-in-command ordered federal prosecutors last week to drop his corruption case

Egypt plans to rebuild Gaza, countering Trump's call to depopulate region

The proposal comes after an international uproar over Trump's call for the removal of Gaza's population of some two million Palestinians

No kings on Presidents Day: Protestors denounce Donald Trump, Elon Musk

Nearly 1,000 people marched in the snow from the Statehouse in Boston to City Hall, chanting "Elon Musk has got to go" and "No kings on Presidents Day!

European leaders hold emergency talks, fear Trump leaving age-old allies

The tipping point came when Trump decided to upend years of US policy by holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in hopes of ending the Russia-Ukraine war

IDF to stay in 5 Lebanon locations after withdrawal deadline today: Israel

Under the agreement, Israeli forces should withdraw from a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to be patrolled by the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers

Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

Probationary workers were targeted in late-night emails on Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement

All 80 aboard Delta flight survive after jet flips upon arrival in Toronto

Video from the scene shows the Mitsubishi CRJ-900LR upside down on the snowy tarmac as emergency workers hose it down

Judge to rule on effort to block DOGE from assessing data, firing employees

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan held a hearing on a request from 14 states for a temporary restraining order seeking to curtail Musk's power in President Trump's quest to downsize the federal govt

Mexico awaits Google's reply over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit

Mexico has argued that the mapping policy violates Mexican sovereignty because the US only has jurisdiction over around 46 per cent of the Gulf

European leaders want say in talks to end Russia's war; US brushes them off

Leaders of Germany, the UK, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Nato and the European Union met for over three hours at the Elysee Palace in Paris for talks on Europe's security quandary

Zelenskyy visits UAE as momentum grows for peace talks to end war

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha visited Ukraine's stands Monday afternoon, even as Russian tried to sell helicopters and other weaponry at the fair

Head of Hamas in Lebanon killed in drone strike, says Israel Army

The Israeli military said it killed Mohammad Shaheen, the head of Hamas' operations department in Lebanon. The army accused Shaheen of recently planning terror attacks, directed and funded by Iran

Zelenskyy says Ukraine to skip US-Russia talks, rejects any imposed outcome

Zelenskyy said he would travel to Turkiye on Monday and to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, but that his trip to the Arab nation was unrelated to planned US-Russia talks there on Tuesday

South Korea pauses downloads of DeepSeek's AI app over privacy concerns

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission said DeepSeek's apps were removed from the local versions of Apple's App Store and Google Play on Saturday evening

Here's why fixing Germany's economy a critical task for country's next govt

Delivering that fresh growth strategy is going to be the biggest challenge for the government that takes office after a national election set for Feb. 23, seven months ahead of schedule

European leaders regroup in Paris after Trump's push to end Ukraine war

The move follows a weeklong diplomatic blitz on Ukraine by the Trump administration that seemed to embrace the Kremlin while it cold-shouldered many of its age-old European allies

Experts push to restore Syria's war-torn heritage sites, including Palmyra

Once-thriving landmarks like the ancient city of Palmyra and the medieval Crusader castle of Crac des Chevaliers remain scarred by years of conflict, but local tourists are returning to the sites