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White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan says Finland and Sweden's formal application to NATO is "a watershed moment in

A Pentagon investigation of a 2019 U.S. military airstrike in Syria that killed dozens, including women and childen, has concluded

The European crisis wrought by Russia’s war in Ukraine makes Scotland’s independence drive more important and demands that Scotland play

North Korea on Tuesday reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 as a mass outbreak spreads through

A regional military governor said on Monday that Ukrainian special forces blew up Russian-held railway bridges between Rubizhne and Severodonetsk

Russian troops were withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday

Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uyghur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on

President Joe Biden looked to nudge Southeast Asian leaders to be more outspoken about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Friday

Lebanese authorities began distributing ballot boxes to polling stations around the country on Saturday, a day before parliamentary elections were

Satellite pictures of Snake Issland in Ukraine released on Friday seemed to show a group of sunken Russian vessels off