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President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will during the French leader's visit next week to the UK co-chair talks with other European leaders on boosting Ukraine's defences, the Elysee Palace said on Friday.
The Kremlin said on Friday that it sees no immediate diplomatic way out of the war in Ukraine, hours after launching its largest ever drone and missile barrage of the invasion.
Russia launched its largest-ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight on Friday just hours after a telephone call between the US and Russian presidents ended without any breakthrough.
Russia launched its largest-ever drone and missile attack on Ukraine overnight on Friday just hours after a telephone call between US and Russian presidents ended without any breakthrough.
US President Donald Trump will sign his flagship tax and spending bill Friday in a pomp-laden Independence Day ceremony featuring fireworks and a flypast by the type of stealth bomber that bombed Iran.
A North Korean civilian voluntarily crossed the heavily mined land border between the two countries, aided by the South's military in a delicate 20-hour operation, Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Friday.
In the crackdown of nationalist Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's government on culture and media, heads of major cultural institutions have been replaced.
In a riverine battleground in western Myanmar, an entrepreneur hunts for reception using a makeshift bamboo antenna, his payphone kiosk providing locals a lifeline to connect with their loved ones.
US President Donald Trump boasted of a "phenomenal victory" to cheering supporters at a rally in Iowa on Thursday after Congress narrowly passed his signature tax and spending bill, cementing his radical second-term agenda.
US President Donald Trump said he made no progress with Vladimir Putin on ending the Ukraine war in a call Thursday, as the Kremlin insisted the Russian president would stick to his aims in the conflict.
The United States and Colombia called home their respective envoys on Thursday in an apparent acceleration of worsening ties, against the backdrop of an alleged plot against Colombia's leftist leader.
Afghanistan's government said on Thursday that Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its rule, calling it a "brave decision".
Even for a man who once boasted that his supporters would get "tired of winning," US President Donald Trump is on a roll.
Opposition leader Jennifer Geerlings-Simons is set to become Suriname's first woman president after her rivals decided Thursday against nominating their own candidate to lead the small South American country.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday secured a major political victory when Congress narrowly passed his signature tax and spending bill, cementing his radical second-term agenda and boosting funds for his anti-immigration drive.
UN rights expert Francesca Albanese on Thursday denounced companies she said "profited from the Israeli economy of illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide", in a report that provoked a furious response from Israel.
Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to bring home all the hostages still held by militants in war-stricken Gaza, where the civil defence agency said 73 people were killed Thursday in his country's ongoing offensive.
Spain's fierce passion for football took an unexpected turn on Thursday as two teams faced off playing with an unusual ball: an artistic reproduction of former dictator Francisco Franco's head.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump by telephone on Thursday that Moscow will not "give up" on its aims in Ukraine, the Kremlin said.
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 69 people on Thursday, including 15 in a strike on a school sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war nearing its 22nd month.
Mexican rehabilitation centers were supposed to provide sanctuary to drug users trying to kick their addictions. Instead, they became targets for the same ultra-violent cartels that traffic illegal narcotics.
Doubts over US military aid to Ukraine reinforce the need for increased cooperation with the EU and NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday as he met European Union leaders in Denmark.
Paris's public bike sharing system, Velib, is losing more than 600 bicycles per week to joy riders, threatening to overwhelm the scheme and leaving users frustrated, its operator said Thursday.
Mali's military authorities on Thursday granted the junta chief a five-year presidential mandate, renewable "as many times as necessary" and without election.
Europe must beef up aid to Ukraine following Washington's decision to pause some weapons shipments, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Thursday, as Denmark vowed to use its EU presidency to push for Ukraine's EU accession.
US lawmakers teed up a final vote on Donald Trump's marquee tax and spending bill for Thursday morning after bruising Republican infighting nearly derailed the centerpiece of the president's domestic agenda.
Thailand saw its third person helming the prime minister's office in a week on Thursday, as the king swore in a new cabinet after a court decision plunged the nation's top office into turmoil.
US lawmakers teed up a final vote on Donald Trump's marquee tax and spending bill for early Thursday after a bruising day of Republican infighting that threatened to derail the centerpiece of the president's domestic agenda.
A senior Chinese official accused the United States defence chief on Thursday of "inciting confrontation and conflict" after he urged American allies to bolster their militaries to counter Beijing.
China's first domestically built aircraft carrier sailed into Hong Kong on Thursday, just days after the city marked 28 years under Chinese rule.
Campaigning for Japan's upper house election started Thursday, with unpopular Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba fighting to maintain the ruling coalition's majority.
Hindus began a vast month-long pilgrimage in contested Indian Kashmir on Thursday, with many of the faithful starting from near the site where a deadly April attack triggered conflict with Pakistan.