WEDNESDAY, 10 DECEMBER 2025, 04:22
NATO foreign ministers will meet in Brussels Wednesday, and the ongoing negotiations to end the war in Ukraine will be top of mind. But there will be a notable absence: The U.S.
NPR’s Steve Inskeep speaks with Julianne Smith, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, about the latest Ukraine peace talks and Europe’s role.
Officials from Hamas and Islamic Jihad told AFP the two Palestinian militant groups would send to Israel a sample from a body recovered in the Gaza Strip.
The BBC’s Russia Editor shares his analysis after five hours of peace talks between the Russians and the US.
Bassem Khandaqji entered prison 21 years ago for plotting a deadly bombing in Israel. He left prison as an award-winning novelist.
Belgium on Wednesday rejected a plan to use frozen Russian assets to help prop up Ukraine’s economy and war effort over the next two years, saying that the scheme poses financial and legal risks.
The Ganges River in India is a final resting place for the ashes of loved ones. For those who can’t make the journey, a river in Florida has become a substitute for the funeral tradition.
The story of wooden nesting dolls is not just quintessentially Russian — it’s also Chinese.
The world-first law aims to reduce the risks children face online, but critics fear it may not work.
Lithuanian authorities accused Belarus of deliberate disruption after weather balloons directed at Vilnius Airport’s runways forced an 11-hour shutdown on Saturday.
More than 30,000 people with respiratory illnesses had to be hospitalised in Delhi between 2022 and 2024.
The Malaysian government says it will pay the robotics firm Ocean Infinity $70 million if it can locate the wreckage from the missing flight within a 55-day period.
The egg, which is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires, has not yet been recovered.
High-stakes US-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine failed to yield a breakthrough, as the Kremlin said “no compromise” had been found yet on the key question of territory.
President Trump says he doesn’t want Somali immigrants in the U.S., saying residents of the war-ravaged eastern African country are too reliant on U.S. social safety net and add little to the U.S.
The Google-owned platform says parental controls will be stripped away as a result of the ban.
The military has taken over but some say the overthrow of the president was not what it seemed.
A bitter dispute between East Asia’s biggest powers, China and Japan, has moved to the cultural front. With both sides unwilling to back down, experts say it could be a protracted feud.
U.S. envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff visit Moscow to present the Ukraine peace proposal.
Kremlin officials described the five hours of negotiations as “productive”.
The Imperial Winter Egg with 4,500 diamonds was commissioned by Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II in 1913.