Germany sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Friday in its first transit of the disputed waters in more than two decades, as Berlin seeks to increase its defense engagement in the Asia-Pacific region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that a decision to allow long-range strikes into Russian territory would mean “the direct involvement of NATO states.” Ukraine has repeatedly dismissed such threats, maintaining that Putin never follows through.

The nations of Central Europe were bracing on Friday for severe flooding forecast to hit the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary over the weekend.

A Syrian man is suspected of planning a machete attack against German soldiers from a barracks in Bavaria that is about an hour away from two major U.S. Army installations, the General Prosecutor’s Office in Munich said Friday.

The U.S. Air Force in Europe is not up to the split-second coordination of air and missile defense with allies, leaving Europeans in mortal danger in the event of an attack, a new report said.

Russia, Iran and China are “ramping up” attempts to stoke divisions within the U.S. ahead of November’s presidential election, according to a top Department of Justice official.

Federal authorities are preparing to file criminal charges over Iran’s alleged hack and leak attack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

Thousands of Americans died freeing the Netherlands. On Thursday its citizens, including hundreds of schoolchildren, lined streets and festival grounds for commemorative activities.

A radical, quasi-state actor most Americans had never heard of, the Houthis of Yemen, have mounted the gravest challenge to freedom of the seas in decades — and arguably beaten a weary superpower along the way.

The attorneys’ arrests were seen as a way to ramp up pressure on Navalny, the Kremlin’s fiercest foe. His lawyers were accused of using their status to pass information from him to his team.

The deaths of three Red Cross staff members came as the WHO’s regional director for Europe told reporters that since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, the U.N. agency has recorded nearly 2,000 attacks on Ukraine’s health care infrastructure.

Russia has launched a counter-offensive in its Kursk region to dislodge Ukraine’s forces who stormed across the border five weeks ago and put Russian territory under foreign occupation for the first time since World War II.

Xi’s visit to Russia will be his second since the Kremlin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Russia has become increasingly dependent economically on China as Western sanctions cut its access to much of the international trading system.

The vehicle registration office at U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach relaunched its online appointment scheduler and revamped hours as it transitions to a hybrid system of walk-ins and appointments.

Authorities thwarted an attempted attack last year on anniversary at the Vienna central station, and the risk remains high on the date around the world, authorities said.

In the rolling hills of the southern Netherlands, locals have vowed to never forget the American and other Allied soldiers who gave their lives in the fight to liberate towns and villages from the Nazi occupation in World War II.

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American has docked at the International Space Station. The capsule atop a towering rocket set off from a Russian launch facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday and docked with the station after two orbits of the Earth.

The four passengers on the Polaris Dawn mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center early Tuesday reached their goal of flying farther away from Earth than anyone since the last Apollo mission.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up a three-nation, Ukraine-focused European tour in Poland after hearing repeated appeals from Ukrainian officials to use Western-supplied weaponry for long-range strikes inside Russia.