Polish President Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda met on the last day of the week-long military exercise along the Suwalki Gap. The border is a strategically important stretch of land that’s considered a potential flashpoint area in case of a standoff between Russia and NATO.

The suggestion that Iran is sourcing weapons from Russia has raised concerns in Israel about the implications of expanding Moscow-Tehran defense ties — especially at a time when Israel and Iran appear closer than ever to all out war.

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A judge has ordered a Marine Corps veteran and former militia member Russell Vane to remain jailed pending trial on charges he attempted to make ricin, a biological toxin.

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Henry Cervantes was a Fresno-born, 19-year-old son of Mexican farmworkers when the Navy told him in 1942 that he could not fight for his country. He found a spot instead in the Army and the Army Air Force, where he flew more than two dozen missions as part of the “Bloody 100th” Bomb Group.

Israel is stepping up preparations for a potential all-out war with Hezbollah, as the risk of a devastating new phase in the country’s conflict with Iran and its proxy militias grows more acute.

It was a calm Sunday morning in a park near Berlin’s iconic Victory Column when a sudden loud shriek startled pedestrians. They turned to see a black-haired man being dragged violently into the back of a car.

The United States on Friday announced for the second time this week more military aid for Ukraine, including Patriot missiles as part of $6 billion in weapons and equipment to help its air defense against invading Russian forces.

The NYPD is investigating two recent Israeli flag thefts in Manhattan as hate crimes amid pro-Palestinian protests over the Gaza conflict continue to grip the city, officials said Friday.

A Senate hearing highlights the dangers of bogus, artificial intelligence materials in elections. A bill was introduced in 2023, but the urgency is now.

Several British men were charged under a new national security law for supporting Russia by carrying out an arson attack on a Ukraine-linked business. The men were charged with offenses “in order to benefit Russia” by conducting “hostile activity in the UK,” according to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will resume his public duties next week following treatment for cancer. One of his first major engagements will be hosting a state visit by the emperor and empress of Japan, who will visit the U.K. in June.

Donald Trump’s defense team attacked the credibility of prosecutors’ first witness in his hush money case on Friday, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme to bury negative stories to protect the Republican’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said.

The UK will spend at least $6.5M to improve road safety near two bases hosting the U.S. Air Force. The effort comes after an American driver hit and killed a British motorcyclist outside RAF Croughton in 2019, prompting the country’s transport secretary to launch a review of road safety in the area.

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left Middle East waters and arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday, on the heels of a Pentagon announcement that construction of a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza is underway.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators want universities to cut their investments in everything tied to Israel and weapons that fuel the war in Gaza. But university administrators and lawmakers have for decades rejected the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel, viewing it as antisemitic.

Ukraine’s agriculture minister became the first cabinet member under Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s presidency to be detained in a crackdown on corruption demanded by allies as a condition for aid in Kyiv’s war against Russia.