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Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the al-Qaeda offshoot terrorist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, attended an in-person meeting with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday to discuss boosting Russia’s economic presence in the country.

A Russian drone attack killed three people in Ukraine´s southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight, authorities said Thursday.

German lawmakers on Thursday will vote on new legislation requiring basic utilities and other critical infrastructure bolster their respective security to reduce vulnerabilities to terrorism, accidents, and other emergencies.

More than twice as many Russian soldiers killed than Ukrainians and the conflict is close to hitting two million casualties, analysis claims.

The European Council has voted to ban Russian gas, but with so many exemptions, the energy will likely flow for years to come. 

A heavy Russian drone bombardment of Ukraine´s southern city of Odesa killed at least two people and wounded 23.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has emerged as President Donald Trump’s “quiet hammer,” a source close to the White House told Breitbart News for an in-depth profile of the world’s premier spy agency in the first year back in office for Trump.

Three parties to the weekend’s talks in the UAE have confirmed they agree to host more, even if the key areas of friction remain.

Ukraine and Russia ended two days of US-brokered direct talks on Saturday and agreed to hold more next week in Abu Dhabi, even as Kyiv accused Moscow of undermining the negotiations towards ending the war by launching fresh strikes.

Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person and wounded 31 overnight into Saturday as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States were to meet in the United Arab Emirates for a second day of talks to end Russia´s nearly four-year full-scale invasion.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that while he doesn’t love everything about the ouster of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, he doesn’t hate all of it and he doesn’t dislike the ousting of a dictator

The Polish government is to “forgive and forget” citizens who broke the law by signing up for the Ukrainian armed forces.

Ukraine, Russia, and the United States are meeting for the first time under a new trilateral format to discuss possibilities for peace.

The French armed forces used helicopters to board and capture a Russian ‘shadow fleet’ oil tanker transiting the Mediterranean on Thursday.

“Very important and strategic island” is key to questions including Arctic security, hypersonic weapons, and raw materials, Davos heard.

Russian Interior Minister Vladímir Kolokoltsev on Tuesday arrived in Havana, Cuba, for an official visit and encounters with officials of the communist Castro regime.

Russia bombarded Ukraine with more than 300 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles in its latest nighttime attack on the Ukrainian power grid, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday, as Moscow gives no public sign that it’s willing to end the invasion of its neighbor anytime soon.

President Donald Trump declared that he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of peace” in a letter to Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, expressing his desire to acquire Greenland from Denmark for the United States. 

Putin has received an invitation to take up a place on President Donald Trump’s $1-billion-a-seat Gaza Board of Peace, the Kremlin says. 

Hundreds of thousands in Russian-occupied parts of southern Ukraine were left without power on Sunday, according to Kremlin-installed authorities there. Meanwhile, Moscow has kept up its hammering of Ukraine’s energy grid in overnight attacks that killed at least two people, according to Ukrainian officials.

A Ukrainian delegation arrived in the United States for talks Saturday on a U.S.-led diplomatic push to end the nearly 4-year-old war as Russian attacks again took aim at Ukraine’s power grid, cutting electricity and heating in freezing temperatures.

Russia claims there will be “serious consequences” from militarising Greenland, as it asserts both innocence and interest in the matter.

European nations piling troops into Greenland to prove it can be defended, with the UK sending one soldier and Norway two.

Armed Forces underfunded, unprepared for war, and doesn’t even have a plan in place should one come, the Chief of the Defence Staff said.

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said Wednesday morning that it is “vital for the golden dome” that the United States acquire Greenland.

Create “European Security Council” because the “Pax Americana” is over and it would build “European Independence”, says commissioner.

President Donald Trump argued on Sunday that Greenland’s defensive capability amounts to “two dog sleds,” so the United States must acquire the strategically valuable Arctic territory to protect it from Russia and China.

A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday.

The British government has announced that it has allocated £200 million to begin preparing the UK Armed Forces to be be deployed to Ukraine as a part of a peacekeeping force in the event of an armistice between Kyiv and Moscow.

President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters following a roundtable with top oil executives and several Cabinet members in the East Room, asserted that the United States will take action on Greenland.

The Chinese Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that its military, alongside those of Russia and South Africa, would engage in drills known as “Will for Peace 2026” off the coast of South Africa.

Wednesday’s seizure of a rogue Russian-flagged tanker in the North Atlantic marked a significant escalation of U.S. efforts to shut down the dangerous “shadow fleet” of sanctions-defying invisible ships created by Russia, China, Iran, and other hostile powers – a fleet that poses serious threats to the environment, maritime safety, legitimate global shipping, and the world’s economic security.

Oil industry analysts expect China to replace its oil imports from Venezuela with increased purchases of Iranian crude, following the arrest of China’s ally Nicolas Maduro by U.S. forces over the weekend.