Attendees at a graduation event for new US army officers on Saturday tried to brush off inflammatory remarks by Donald Trump, but said they were unsurprised by the president’s rhetoric.

Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday on the second day of an extended prisoner swap set to be the largest in the three-year war.

Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday over President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke the Ivy League school’s ability to enroll international students.

A federal judge extended a temporary block on a bid by US President Donald Trump’s administration to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal employees, saying he needed permission from Congress before restructuring the US government.

A small private jet crashed into a military housing complex in San Diego in the middle of the night, killing several people and igniting a fierce blaze that destroyed cars and homes, officials said on Thursday.

The United States will bear legal responsibility in the event of an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Thursday, following a CNN report that Israel might be preparing strikes on Iran.

President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday ordered the government to draw up proposals to tackle the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and the spread of political Islamism in France, the Elysee said.

Flash flooding on Australia’s southeast coast has killed two people and cut off towns, isolating tens of thousands of residents, as officials warned more downpours were expected over the next 24 hours.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday steered clear of calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” saying the priority was negotiations to end the Ukraine conflict.

The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it agreed with Israel to allow delivery of urgent humanitarian aid from the Gulf country to Gaza, the state news agency WAM reported.

France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau, who has called for radical action to cut immigration numbers, easily won an election to become leader of the conservative Republican party (LR).

Succes Masra has been detained over the alleged incitement of protests that have resulted in the deaths of dozens. The former prime minister has been an outspoken opponent of President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a call with US President Donald Trump on Monday, said that efforts to end the war in Ukraine were on the right track and that Moscow was ready to work with Ukraine on a memorandum about future peace accord.

US Vice President JD Vance met on Monday at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV, the first leader of the global Catholic Church from the United States, and extended an invitation for Leo to make an official visit home.

Joe Biden expressed his gratitude to Americans on Monday for their “love and support” after the former US president said he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Russia launched on Sunday its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the start of the war, destroying homes and killing at least one woman a day before US President Donald Trump is due to discuss a proposed ceasefire with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosts European Union chiefs for a landmark summit designed to usher in a closer relationship between Britain and the bloc, five years after Brexit.

Israel will allow a “basic amount” of food into the Gaza Strip, the prime minister’s office said, after facing mounting pressure to lift a total blockade imposed more than two months ago.

Paris has filed a case against Tehran at the top UN court over two French citizens who have been held in Iran for three years, the French foreign minister said.

Palestinian rescuers reported 94 people killed in Israeli strikes on blockaded Gaza, where a US-backed organisation said it intends to begin distributing aid by the end of the month.

Russia has deliberately targeted hotels used by journalists covering its war on Ukraine, the NGOs Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Truth Hounds said, calling the strikes “war crimes”.