The U.S. Army’s Bavarian Alps resort hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen is undergoing a $30 million facelift in the midst of celebrating a milestone.  

The effort spearheaded by the Treasury and State Departments is aimed at punishing “third party countries” that are accused of providing material assistance to the Kremlin or assisting Russia in evading the thousands of sanctions that have been imposed on it since February 2022.

Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 people in the worst natural disaster to hit the European nation in recent memory.

Ukraine should strike North Korean troops if they enter the country to fight alongside Russia, President Joe Biden said, as officials warned the soldiers are expected to move closer to the front line over the next few weeks.

The Pentagon could not say whether North Korean troops are already fighting in Ukraine. But CNN reported a small number of North Korean troops are inside Ukraine and officials expect that number to grow.

Finland’s president said North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia represents an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war that goes against China’s own stated position on the conflict, following talks Tuesday with the Chinese president.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors he witnessed escorting U.S. troops to the beaches of northern France as a young British navy gunner, has died, his family said. He was 99.

North Korea said Tuesday its top diplomat is visiting Russia, in another sign of their deepening relations as rival South Korea and Western nations say the North has sent thousands of troops to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.

An investigation by French newspaper Le Monde found that the highly confidential movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that their bodyguards use.

An American veteran who was serving at a since-closed U.S. Army base in Germany when he killed a female fellow soldier two decades ago was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to the Justice Department.

“We are increasingly concerned that Russia intends to use these soldiers in combat or to support combat operations against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk Oblast,” said Sabrina Singh, the deputy Pentagon press secretary.

In a modern fight across the Ukrainian steppe, where it is nearly impossible to hide from the digital eyes of drone surveillance, windbreaks have become one of the most valuable terrain features that Russian and Ukrainian troops fight over.

Russia’s decision to bring North Korean troops to shore up its war-weary forces has Ukraine’s allies realizing they have few options to respond without escalating the conflict even more.

Considerable media attention is directed to reports that North Korea is supplying troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine along with workers. In reality, this is simply the latest step closer between two already-close but weak partners.

NATO confirmed that North Korean troops were sent to Russia and some have been deployed in Russia’s Kursk region, where Russia is fighting a Ukrainian incursion. 

Russian forces thwarted an attempt at another cross-border incursion by Ukraine into southwestern Russia, a local official reported Sunday, months after Kyiv staged a bold assault on its nuclear-armed enemy that Moscow is still struggling to halt.