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Four European leaders visited Ukraine on Thursday, denouncing the brutality of the Russian invasion in a high-profile show of support amid Kyiv’s fears that Western resolve to help the embattled country could wane as the war grinds on.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday banned the upcoming Pixar animated feature “Lightyear” from showing in movie theaters after its inclusion of a kiss between two lesbian characters.

Officials said Monday that 22 people were hospitalized after a regional passenger train and a locomotive collided head-on in northeastern Spain.

China has overtaken Germany as the biggest buyer of Russian energy exports since the start of the war in Ukraine, an independent research group said Monday.

Britain’s government is expected to introduce legislation Monday that would unilaterally change post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland amid opposition from lawmakers who believe the move violates international law.

Senate bargainers on Sunday announced the framework of a bipartisan response to last month’s mass shootings, a noteworthy but limited breakthrough offering modest gun curbs and stepped-up efforts to improve school safety and mental health…

The Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, all but destroyed by weeks of shelling and now under Russian control, is at risk of a major cholera outbreak, the UK defence ministry says.

Experts question whether the Summit of the Americas declaration will do enough to address pressing needs in the region.

China will “not hesitate to start a war” and “smash to smithereens” any Taiwan independence efforts, its defence minister warned his US counterpart in the pair’s first face-to-face talks.

A passenger train traveling through eastern Iran struck an excavator and nearly half its cars derailed before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring 87, officials said.

The bodies of some Ukrainian fighters killed defending the key south-eastern port of Mariupol have now arrived in Kyiv, the soldiers' families say.

Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara.

The first two funerals for two schoolchildren killed in the attack at a primary school in Uvalde are scheduled for Tuesday.

A jury in the United States has convicted a self-published romance novelist — who once wrote an essay titled “How to Murder Your Husband” — of fatally shooting her husband four years ago.

In the days and weeks before the second deadliest elementary school shooting in U.S. history, the accused Robb Elementary gunman appears to have sent disturbing messages -- including claims about intentions of violence at school -- to…