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Steffen Trumpf/dpa (Photo by Steffen Trumpf/picture alliance via Getty Images (LONDON) — Drone overflights again caused disruptions at Danish airports on Wednesday night, officials said, in the latest instance of unexplained drone sightings over sensitive facilities in the Scandinavian nation. Danish officials held a press conference on Thursday morning detailing the latest incidents, which prompted […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his “productive meeting” with U.S. President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, after which Trump appeared to jettison his long-held skepticism of Kyiv’s battlefield ambitions. Shortly after the meeting, Trump wrote on social media, “After getting to […]

Sawayasu Tsuji/Getty Images (LONDON) — Typhoon Ragasa swept along the southern coast of China on Wednesday, bringing lashing rain, fierce winds and coastal flooding as it made its way toward landfall. The powerful storm was forecast to make landfall in the evening near Guangdong, China, where local officials called for about two million people to […]

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Trump administration’s tariffs on Indian goods, initially 25% and then additional 25%, “due to India’s direct or indirect importation of Russian Federation oil,” is expected to make Indian basmati rice significantly more expensive for American consumers. Basmati is an aromatic rice variety grown mostly in the Punjab […]

Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 41 drones were shot down while heading toward Moscow from Monday evening through to Tuesday morning, according to city Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, amid what Russian Defense Ministry data suggested was a major Ukrainian drone barrage. Sobyanin said the first Ukrainian drones were downed at […]

The United Nations headquarters is seen in Manhattan on Sept. 9, 2025 as the annual U.N. General Assembly, the 80th, began with thousands of delegates and world leaders expected to attend over the next few weeks. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged attendees of this week’s United Nations General Assembly sessions […]

Scott Peterson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russia carried out a “massive” attack across Ukraine Friday night into Saturday morning, using more than 600 drones and missiles, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. Russia confirmed Saturday that it had “launched a massive strike using long-range air- and ground-based precision weapons and attack drones against Ukrainian military-industrial […]

Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israeli military began a ground offensive in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday. The IDF confirmed that the maneuver to occupy Gaza City that began overnight included two divisions, with a third expected to join. The next phase of the Israeli military action in […]

Francisco Richart Barbeira/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia continued its nightly strikes on Ukraine — including the capital Kyiv — as U.S. President Donald Trump prepared to depart for his state visit to the U.K. on Tuesday, with the White House’s efforts to broker peace between the combatants still stalled. Ukraine’s air force said […]

VCG/VCG via Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korean officials on Monday said the country’s status as nuclear state “has become irreversible,” despite efforts by the West to negotiate an end to the production of those weapons, according to state media. “The position of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a nuclear weapons state which […]