US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the Russians “have the cards” in any negotiation to end the war in Ukraine, after branding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” who refuses to hold elections.

For Maria Elena Veiga, a 60-year-old Cuban housewife living on the outskirts of Havana, charcoal has become the go-to fuel for cooking due to frequent blackouts from the island’s failing power grid.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday said that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between Moscow and Washington.

Unknown gunmen shot dead seven passengers on a Lahore-bound bus in southwestern Pakistan’s Balochistan province after forcing them off the vehicle and checking their identity documents late.

US President Donald Trump has effectively blamed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky for Russia’s invasion, as French President Emmanuel Macron prepares for another round of talks with EU and non-European partners.

Hamas has proposed to release all captives remaining in the Gaza Strip in “one go” in exchange for a lasting truce and a complete Israeli army withdrawal from the besieged enclave.

Local prosecutors pursued hate crime charges against a Florida man who, according to police, shot two men he thought were Palestinians but turned out to be Israeli visitors.

US President Donald Trump’s administration targeted bank regulators, rocket scientists and tax enforcers for dismissal.

Brazil’s attorney general on Tuesday formally charged far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro and 33 others over an alleged coup attempt after his 2022 election loss.

A senior Ukrainian official on Tuesday criticised US President Donald Trump’s team for launching talks with Russia without Ukraine, after officials from Washington and Moscow held their first high-level meeting since the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia said on Tuesday that the United States “better” understood Moscow’s position after high-level talks between the two nuclear powers in Saudi Arabia.

German politicians make a lot of laws and regulations but on the campaign trail many rage against the country’s notorious bureaucracy, labelling it a monster that needs to be slayed.

Argentine President Javier Milei denied promoting a cryptocurrency that crashed, losing investors billions of dollars and prompting a flood of complaints, as prosecutors reportedly prepare an investigation into the scandal.

Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1 000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an Israeli NGO has reported.

A man charged with attempted murder over the shooting of two Israeli visitors in Florida, the US, believed the victims were Palestinians, police have said.

A Delta Air Lines regional jet flipped upside down upon landing at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday amid windy weather following a snowstorm, injuring 18 of the 80 people on board, officials said.

Pope Francis’s respiratory tract infection has presented a “complex clinical picture” requiring further hospitalisation, the Vatican says.

The United States Department of State has dropped wording stating that Washington does not support independence for Taiwan.

The head of the World Health Organisation insisted it was “now or never” to strike a landmark global accord on tackling future pandemics, despite the US withdrawing from negotiations.

Alexei Navalny’s widow received a standing ovation as she spoke in a packed church in Berlin on the anniversary of the Russian opposition leader’s death behind bars.

Israel’s security cabinet was set to discuss the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, after top US diplomat Marco Rubio and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu presented a united front on their approach to Hamas and Iran.