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The European Union’s foreign-policy chief has voiced disapproval of Hungary’s decision to host Russian President Vladimir Putin despite his international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Ukraine.

Austria has agreed to support the European Union’s latest sanctions package against Russia, reversing its earlier opposition and removing a key obstacle ahead of a crucial meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembourg on Monday.

U.S. forces carried out a deadly strike on a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in international waters Friday, killing three men believed to be affiliated with Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN), officials confirmed Sunday.

Some 24 hours after speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald J. Trump appeared to back down on his pledge to provide Ukraine with powerful Tomahawk missiles capable of striking deep inside Russia.

Christian aid workers have raised the alarm over the suffering of Christian communities in Vietnam after at least 51 people were confirmed dead in the country and 20 more in the Philippines as Typhoon Bualoi and its aftermath brought devastating floods and landslides to Southeast Asia.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Friday that he had already discussed details of the planned U.S.–Russia summit in Budapest with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding that he would also speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the meeting.

The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad secretly moved thousands of bodies from a massive grave near the capital, Damascus, to a hidden desert site as part of a two-year effort to conceal evidence of war crimes and improve the regime’s image, investigators say.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump said he plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to discuss possible steps toward ending Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Syria’s interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa held his first official talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Wednesday, signaling a new phase in relations between Moscow and Damascus less than a year after Sharaa’s rebel forces ousted former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad — a longtime ally of Russia.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil — a move that, if confirmed, would mark a significant shift in global energy alliances and strengthen Trump’s efforts to pressure Moscow to end its war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday confirmed that he authorized covert CIA operations in Venezuela and said he is considering land-based attacks on the South American country as part of his expanding campaign against drug cartels.

France, the European Union’s second-largest economy, narrowly avoided deeper political turmoil Thursday as Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu survived two no-confidence votes in Parliament that could have forced President Emmanuel Macron to call snap elections.

The European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, was set to unveil a sweeping new counter-drone initiative Thursday, following a string of suspected Russian drone violations in the airspace of several EU nations.

More than 140 people were feared dead Thursday as Mexico struggled to bring aid to those devastated by record-breaking floods amid growing anger over the government’s handling of the crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that American forces conducted another lethal strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people in what the administration calls part of a “noninternational armed conflict” with narco-terrorist networks.

Belgium’s security forces used tear gas and a water cannon to disperse tens of thousands of protesters who flooded Brussels, the national and European Union capital, to express outrage over Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s proposed austerity measures.

A fire at a garment factory and an adjacent chemical warehouse in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday killed at least 16 people, and officials warned the death toll could rise as rescue operations continued late into the night.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet at the White House on Friday to discuss what both sides have described as a “Mega Deal” to bolster Ukraine’s air defenses — potentially including U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles capable of striking deep inside Russia.

U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that Iran “took a big hit” following devastating U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on its nuclear facilities in June but added that peace between Iran and Israel “would be great” if it could be achieved.

Authorities in Slovakia suggest that human error might be to blame for Monday’s massive train crash in eastern Slovakia that injured up to 100 people.