Russia first annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and invaded parts of the country's Russian-speaking east to stop its westward drift. Ukraine, a former Soviet state, aspires to jo

President Donald Trump announced plans for sweeping reciprocal tariffs Wednesday, saying "our country has been looted, pillaged, raped, plundered" by other nations.Of the 180 countries, including U.S.

Eleven more Ukrainian children have been brought home from parts of Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine where they had been taken without permission, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said on Wednesday.

"The intellectual inferiority afflicting the ruling class (of Britain) has reached its apogee," Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that London's move showed Britain's "paranoid schizophrenia".

NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defense spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in response to the evolving military threat from Russia,

Russia, the world's second-largest oil exporter, on Wednesday imposed restrictions on another major oil export route, suspending a mooring at the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk only a day after restricting loadings from a key Caspian pipeline.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday accused Russia of violating recent ceasefire agreements mediated by the US and called for sanctions on Moscow.

A NATO member since 2004, Bulgaria has long aimed to replace its aging fleet of Soviet-era MiG-29 aircraft. Budget constraints, however, caused repeated delays. As Russia's war in Ukraine continues, Bulgaria has been depending on support from other NATO allies to meet its air policing responsibilities.

The Russian government has unleashed a wave of repression against L.G.B.T.Q. people, with the police raiding gay night clubs and investigators targeting people they suspect of being gay.

The U.S. Treasury Department Wednesday sanctioned an alleged network of Houthi financial and procurement operatives it said has procured tens of millions of dollars worth of weapons and other goods from Russia.