Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he will resign in the coming days after talks on forming a new government failed a second time.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he’s staying “cool” against critical personal comments made by Elon Musk but finds it worrying that the U.S. billionaire makes the effort to get involved in a general election by endorsing the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.

Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday, as oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city.

The fate of an Italian journalist detained in Tehran and an Iranian engineer imprisoned in Italy on a U.S. warrant have grown even more intertwined. The Iranian says he’s praying for the journalist as he awaits possible extradition to the U.S. to face charges he provided drone technology to Iran’s Republican Guard.

Azerbaijan claims that the Embraer 190 jet, made in Brazil, was unintentionally shot down by Russia. Brazil’s air force said in a statement that nine foreign investigators from three other countries, including Russia, have gathered with its own experts in the capital, Brasilia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also says it won’t be possible to end the almost three years of war in one day as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump claimed during his election campaign that he could do. 

All DODEA schools will be closed on Thursday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

The U.S. service member killed when an explosive-packed Tesla Cybertruck burst into flames outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel was a Green Beret based in Germany. He had suffered what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot to the head before the explosion.

A worker digging up clay in a southern England limestone quarry noticed unusual bumps that led to the discovery of a “dinosaur highway” and nearly 200 tracks that date back 166 million years, researchers said Thursday.

At least four others were wounded in the shooting rampage in Cetinje on Wednesday that followed a bar brawl, officials said. This was the second such incident in the town in the past three years.

The Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadly attack that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State group.

Ukraine on Wednesday halted Russian gas supplies to European customers through its pipeline network after a prewar transit deal expired at the end of last year.

Ukraine’s intelligence service said a naval drone had struck down a Russian military helicopter for the first time and forced another one to return to an airfield after being hit.

Police said Tuesday the attacker was a Syrian citizen with residency in Sweden. Police told The Associated Press that initial findings indicate the suspect may have signs of mental illness and that there is no indication of a terrorist motivation. 

The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland on Tuesday expressed concern about “the political crisis” in Georgia, two days after Mikheil Kavelashvili was formally inaugurated as its president, cementing the ruling party’s grip in what the opposition calls a blow to the country’s EU aspirations and a victory for Russia.

The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces successfully struck a Ukrainian air base and a gunpowder factory, and that air defenses shot down 68 Ukrainian drones over several regions.

On Jan. 1, Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom is set to halt gas supplies to the E.U. candidate country over an alleged $709 million debt for past supplies, a figure fiercely disputed by Moldova’s pro-Western government, which has accused Moscow of weaponizing energy.

Three men have been charged with spying on U.S. military bases for Russia and plotting attacks on American personnel in retaliation for Western support of Ukraine, German prosecutors said.