The newly formed NATO-Ukraine Council is a format established by allies earlier this year to give Kyiv a larger voice on matters relating to its security.

Students in the fourth and eighth grades at the U.S. military’s schools ranked best in the nation in the first standardized testing of its kind since COVID-19 shuttered schools and disrupted classroom learning for millions of American schoolchildren.

The German government is following up on media reports that coronavirus test centers across the country have overbilled authorities for the number of tests taken.

Coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths are plummeting across the continent, after Europe led the world in new cases last fall and winter in waves that cost hundreds of thousands of lives, forced more rolling lockdowns and overwhelmed intensive care units.

Authorities in Belarus ordered a Ryanair flight that took off in Athens and was headed to Lithuania to land in Minsk over a purported bomb threat, which the Belarusian opposition is calling just a pretext to arrest an activist on board.

Despite the Nazi's attempt to destroy the Ludendorff bridge on the west bank of the Rhine River in Remagen, Germany, the 9th Armored Division captured it on March 7, 1945, enabling thousands of troops to pour over to the eastern side of the Rhine.