The U.N.-led meeting, set for this spring, hopes to restart formal talks to resolve one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. Turkey has advocated for a two-state arrangement in which the numerically fewer Turkish Cypriots would never be the minority, but Greek Cypriots fear it would create a potentially permanent Turkish military presence.
The U.S. is set to provide Ukraine an additional $500 million in weapons quickly pulled from its existing stockpiles as the Biden administration works to get Kyiv in a stronger negotiating position before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile attack in the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia has killed at least 13 civilians and wounded about 30 others.
A Ramstein Air Base proposal for Frankfurt Airport shuttle service was scrapped for lack of bids, ending hopes in the largest U.S. military community overseas for a better option to get to the European hub.
An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was freed Wednesday, after her fate had become intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer arrested in Italy and wanted by the U.S. Sala’s homecoming marked a major political victory for Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.
Of the 12,000 North Korean troops deployed to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, at least 3,800 have been killed or wounded, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Donald Trump on Tuesday said he would not rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, as he declared U.S. control of both to be vital to American national security.
Trump posted a video showing a plane emblazoned with the word TRUMP landing in Nuuk, the Arctic territory’s capital, in a landscape of snow-capped peaks and fjords.
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front who was known for fiery rhetoric against immigration and multiculturalism that earned him both staunch supporters and widespread condemnation, died Tuesday. He was 96.
The anti-immigration and euroskeptic Freedom Party calls for an end to sanctions against Russia, is highly critical of Western military aid to Ukraine and wants to bow out of the European Sky Shield Initiative, a missile defense project launched by Germany.
In a New Year’s speech at the Élysée Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized France’s commitment to fostering cooperation while urging European nations to fortify their unity and resilience.
The town’s fall would add to the Kremlin’s list of conquests in the partially occupied Donetsk region during the almost three-year war. It came a day after the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian forces had pressed new attacks in Russia’s Kursk border region.
France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.