The US president said he believed Kyiv wants peace and that he would talk to Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a fresh bid to end the Ukraine war.

The White House has claimed that Afrikaners were facing mass killings and land seizures in South Africa, though this has been widely refuted.

European NATO members have scrambled to boost their national military outlays under pressure from Donald Trump.

Russia has offered to help mediate talks to deescalate the conflict, but direct assistance for Tehran seems off the table for now.

Paris is growing increasingly concerned about Israel targeting Iranian sites beyond nuclear and ballistic missile facilities.

The deal, which took 18 months to finalize, grants the Trump administration an unusual degree of control over US Steel.

Russia has taken advantage of Ukraine’s air defense shortages to launch increasingly deadly aerial assaults.

Oil prices had one of their biggest single-day increases since March 2022, amid concerns of an escalating Israel-lran conflict.

Capitol Hill was largely split along party lines over Israel’s strikes against Iran, though some MAGA leaders were skeptical.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps said it had struck dozens of targets in Israel “forcefully and with precision” after launching dozens of missiles in retaliation for Israeli strikes.

Senior Bureau Official Troy Fitrell becomes the latest senior Africa official to leave his post.

A number of US administration officials have criticized the landmark defense agreement with the UK and Australia.