FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Ukraine says it foiled a Russian spy agency plot to assassinate President Zelenskyy

Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said.

FILE - Britain's Defence Secretary Grant Shapps arrives in Downing Street for a cabinet meeting in London, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system. The Ministry of Defense said Defense Secretary Grant Shapps would make a statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, afternoon “setting out the multi-point plan to support and protect personnel.” (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)
UK says huge payroll data breach by ‘malign actor’ exposed details of military personnel

The names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach by a “malign actor” who may have had state help, defense officials said Tuesday.

Tech. Sgt. Kayla Bradford waits for a radiological assessment on an F-16 Fighting Falcon during exercise Radiant Falcon on April 24, 2024, at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. The Kremlin announced Monday that it will conduct nuclear weapons drills, but Pentagon officials dismissed the idea of an elevated threat.
Pentagon not adjusting force posture as Russia announces nuclear strike drills

The U.S. military isn’t adjusting its nuclear force posture in response to new saber-rattling from Russia, American officials said.

A large Chinese flag hangs on a skyscraper in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 4, 2024.
China’s Xi begins Serbia visit on 25th anniversary of NATO bombing of Chinese Embassy

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during NATO’s air war over Kosovo.

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Obukhov State Plant in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Jan. 18, 2023.
Under Putin, a militarized new Russia rises to challenge US and the West

As Vladimir Putin persists in his bloody campaign to conquer Ukraine, the Russian leader is directing an equally momentous transformation at home — re-engineering his country into a regressive, militarized society that views the West as its mortal enemy.

FILE - A view of the bridge connecting the Russky Island and Vladivostok, in Russia's far east, is seen on Aug. 26, 2023. An American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing. That's according to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press. The soldier, who is not being identified, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to the United States. Instead, he traveled to Russia. According to the officials, the soldier was arrested late last week in Vladivostok. It was unclear Monday, May 6, 2024, if the soldier is considered absent without leave, or AWOL. (AP Photo/Alexander Khitrov)
US soldier arrested in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct, Army says

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, has been arrested by Russian authorities on charges of criminal misconduct, the Army confirmed Monday. Black was detained Thursday in Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, and remains in custody.

Evelyn Walg Grunberg and her son Henry Grunberg look through a family album in her apartment in Aventura. The family will gather in France this summer to commemorate Evelyns escape from Nazi Europe in 1942.
Escaping the Holocaust: Florida family plans to retrace grandmother’s perilous flight

This Holocaust Remembrance Day is a special one for the entire Grunberg family. This summer, they will commemorate the family’s history by taking a trip to the Pyrenees to retrace Evelyn Walg Grunberg’s journey to freedom.

FILE - Tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters the "Wolf's Lair" in Gierloz, northeastern Poland, July 17, 2004 where his chief of staff members made an unsuccessful attempt at Hitler's life on July 20, 1944. Polish prosecutors have discontinued an investigation into human skeletons found at Wolf's Lair where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced state of decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death, a spokesman said Monday, May 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)
Human remains were found at a former Hitler base, but decay prevents determining the cause of death

Polish prosecutors have discontinued an investigation into human skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced state of decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death.

People walk through the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau as they attend the annual Holocaust remembrance event, the "March of the Living" in memory of the six million Holocaust victims in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, May 6, 2024. The event comes amid the dramatic backdrop of the violence of the Israel-Hamas war after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, the deadliest violence against Jews since the Holocaust, and as pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. campuses. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Yearly memorial march at former death camp at Auschwitz overshadowed by Israel-Hamas war

U.S. university presidents joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis on Monday for the March of the Living, a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz that honors the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and celebrates the state of Israel.

WWII veteran Charles Shay, is pictured at his home Sunday, March 24, 2024 in Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse, Normandy. On D-Day, Charles Shay was a 19-year-old Native American army medic who was ready to give his life — and actually saved many. Now 99, he's spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he's about to take part in the 80th celebrations of the landings in Normandy that led to the liberation of France and Europe from Nazi Germany occupation. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Schaeffer)
On D-Day, 19-year-old medic Charles Shay was ready to give his life, and save as many as he could

Veteran Charles Shay, now 99, is spreading a message of peace with tireless dedication as he’s about to take part in the 80th anniversary commemorations of the landings in Normandy.