Alexander Smith

French President Macron said Russia's Putin is "not ready to make peace" in Ukraine after rejecting an "Olympic truce." Ukraine's Zelenskyy has also said no.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called an election that his Conservative Party looks likely to lose to the opposition Labour Party led by Sir Keir Starmer.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a new election for July 4, setting his ruling Conservative Party the challenge of overturning dismal polling if it is to retain its 14-year hold on power against the high-flying opposition Labour Party.

The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi poses the question of who will succeed him, as well as the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Storms tore through Texas, killing at least four people and knocking out power to nearly 800,000 customers. Emergency crews have begun clearing debris and assessing flooding.

During a surprise visit to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the stage alongside a local band and play Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World.”

Ukraine's army withdrew some forces from areas around the city of Kharkiv, while local officials said Russian troops had taken up positions inside the key frontline town of Vovchansk.

The Israeli military issued an “urgent warning” to evacuate parts of Rafah, signaling an expansion of its military campaign in Gaza's southernmost city.

The skull of an ancient neanderthal woman has been rebuilt centuries after it was smashed into pieces in a cave in Kurdistan in northern Iraq.

Last Saturday Sabreen was pulled from the womb of her dead mother in the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, which also killed her father and her 3-year-old sister. She died five days later.

Britain's King Charles III will resume public duties for the first time since his cancer diagnosis as Kate, the Princess of Wales, continues treatement.