President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Bill White to be the U.S. ambassador to Belgium.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hip replacement surgery Saturday at the Landstuhl Army hospital in Germany after falling while at an event in Luxembourg with other members of Congress.

The United States plans to introduce sanctions against Serbia’s main gas supplier that is controlled by Russia, Serbia’s president said Saturday.

Ukrainian drone strikes on southern Russia killed a 9-year-old boy and set fire to a major oil terminal, officials said Saturday, the day after Moscow launched a massive aerial attack on its neighbor that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was one of the heaviest bombardments of the country’s energy sector in the nearly three-year war.

A suspected Chinese spy with business ties to Prince Andrew has been barred from the U.K. because of concerns he poses a threat to national security.

The attack, which Kyiv described as one of the largest on its energy infrastructure since the war started, forced Ukraine to reduce output at five of its nine nuclear reactors. The Russian Defense Ministry said the strike was a response to Kyiv using six US-made ATACMS long-range missiles.

Defense spending is on the rise across Europe. At the same time, Europe’s auto industry is grappling with stagnant demand for electric vehicles and increasing competition from China.

Organizers said their emphasis on lengthier field treatment was a relatively new facet of the competition that anticipated wars in which U.S. forces no longer control the skies and cannot quickly evacuate the wounded.

The top official in the U.S.-led NATO alliance issued a direct appeal Thursday to residents of countries in the bloc, asking them to demand big increases in defense spending in the face of Russia’s aggression.

The Institute for the Study of War estimated late Wednesday that Russian forces have moved to within about 4 miles of Pokrovsk, one of Ukraine’s main defensive strongholds and a key logistics hub.

The European Union ministers has agreed to let Bulgaria and Romania fully integrate into Europe’s ID-check-free travel zone known as the Schengen area by lifting land border controls next year.

A Belarusian journalist has been sentenced to four years in prison for her critical reports chronicling a sweeping crackdown on dissent launched by the country’s authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.

President Vladimir Putin is demanding to know why Russia’s intelligence service didn’t spot the growing threat to Assad’s rule until it was too late.

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that his government will protect major television stations in the country, like the U.S.-owned TVN, against hostile purchases, in a move aimed at protecting from any such attempts by Russia.

Ukraine has demonstrated skill with long-range drones, hitting deep inside Russia, but experts say it needs the punch and power of ballistic missiles, as well.

The European Union on Wednesday gave a greenlight to Poland and other countries on Europe’s eastern flank to temporarily suspend asylum rights when they believe that Belarus and Russia are “weaponizing” migrants to destabilize the bloc.

Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as both sides wrestle for a battlefield advantage that will give them leverage in any negotiations to end the nearly 3-year war.

Five weeks after his three-party governing coalition collapsed in a dispute over how to revitalize Germany’s stagnant economy, Scholz’s office said he had requested the confidence vote in parliament’s lower house, or Bundestag, for Monday. The aim is to hold a parliamentary election on Feb. 23, seven months earlier than originally scheduled.